Updated10/17/2018
Horry County Schools
Elementary and Middle School Staff Development Day
January 19, 2010
Updates made since 1/6/10 are in RED INK.
Updates made since 1/14/10 are in BLUE INK.
Reminders:
The district will plan a variety of staff development opportunitiesfor educators based on district initiatives and needs.
Some sessions will be required, while other sessions are optional.
Not all educators will have assigned meetings, and individuals not attending staff development sessions are expected to work in their buildings.
Most sessions require registration via SDOnline, Horry County School’s Online Staff Development Registrationsystem. SD Online is the best place to check for session updates.
To register, click on this SD Online link, or:
1) Go to the Horry County Schools website:
2) Under the Staff tab at the right-hand side of the page, click on Staff Development.
3) Under the links on the left, click on Access SD Online.
4) Login with your full HCS email address OR six-digit employee ID. Password is last four digits of your SSN. Click Enter.
5) Click on the SD Online icon at the bottom.
6) To explore and register for staff development sessions, click on the Signup tab at the left. You can search for sessions by title, keywords, facilitator, location, content area, or date.
7)Click on a workshop to select it, click Signup then Confirm Signups.
8)Verify your schedule by clicking on My Sessions. After the session, you’ll find your certificate here, as well.
Schedule of Staff Development Opportunities
Intermediate Technology in the Classroom
Start Time: 08:30 AM End Time: 10:30 AM
Content: Technology
Facilitator(s): Abby Mourning, Lori Gorman
Location: Myrtle Beach Middle
Room: 103
Target: Teachers seeking advanced methods of integrating technology into their curriculum
Target Grds: PK,00,01,02,03,04,05,06,07,08,09,10,11,12
Description: This is not a beginner’s technology course; it will be fast-paced due to the large amount of content that will be covered. Teachers should already have a desire to implement technology in the classroom tomorrow and publish work via school webpage. Topics may include the following: Audacity, PhotoStory, VoiceThread, MovieMaker, Publishing on the School Webpage, Google Docs. Be sure you know your login and password for your teacher web page, and that you have proper privileges! See your school’s technology contact to get this before the 19th. Without your login, you won’t be able to participate in this hands-on learning experience. Be prepared to have a brief introduction with some work time built into the session. If you bring your laptop, make sure you have your power cord and Internet cable if it’s not configured for wireless.
PowerPoint and Projectors
Start Time: 08:00 AM End Time: 11:30 AM
Content: Technology
Facilitator(s): Michael Manholt
Location: Academy for Arts, Sci and Tech
Room: Media Center Lab 501
Target: Teachers who have completed the Laptop Initiative program and who are interested in enhancing instruction through the use of PowerPoint
Target Grds: PK,00,01,02,03,04,05,06,07,08,09,10,11,12
Description: Are you interested in maximizing your use of PowerPoint? Join us at this session where we will cover the following topics and strategies: basic slide design and variations, how to insert pictures, movie clips and sound files, review games, and templates. If possible participants should bring a flash drive with the following saved on it: at least one mp3 (music) file, one video clip, and pictures. The above items can also be saved on your “H drive” to be used during the session if you do not have a flash drive.
Advanced Technology in the Classroom
Start Time: 12:30 PM End Time: 02:30 PM
Content: Technology
Facilitator(s): Lori Gorman and Abby Mourning
Topic: Advanced Technology in the Classroom
Location: Myrtle Beach Middle
Room: Lab 103
Target: This session will build on technology introduced in the Intermediate session. Anyone signing up for this session is strongly encouraged to attend the morning session, Intermediate Technology in the Classroom.
Target Grds: PK,00,01,02,03,04,05,06,07,08,09,10,11,12
Description: This is not a beginner’s technology course; it will be fast paced due to the large amount of content that will be covered. Teachers should already have a desire to implement technology in the classroom tomorrow and publish work via school webpage. Topics may include the following: eClassroom, Google Docs, Scratch, Alice, Sumo Paint, Animoto, and other Web 2.0 Tools. Be sure you know your login and password for your teacher web page, and that you have proper privileges! See your school’s technology contact to get this before the 19th. Without your login, you won’t be able to participate in this hands-on learning experience. Be prepared to have a brief introduction with some work time built into the session. If you bring your laptop, make sure you have your power cord and Internet cable if it’s not configured for wireless.
Teaching in Context: Contextual Teaching
and Learning
Start Time: 08:00 AM End Time: 11:00 AM
OR Start Time: 12:30 PM End Time: 03:30 PM
Content: General / All
Facilitator(s): Kathy Sue Mixson, Global Career Development Facilitator
Location: Waccamaw Elementary
Room: Meeting Room
Target: Relevant for ALL educators and administrators
Target Grds: ALL
Description: Are you interested in learning engaging strategies for teaching your students? This session will give teachers tips for using brain-compatible techniques which address a number of individual learning styles and multiple intelligences. Also, educators will learn and apply principles of contextual teaching. Educators can choose to attend one of two, identical, half-day sessions.
Show Me The Money! - Donors Choose Grant Writing
AM Session FULL; Five Slots Left in PM Session
Start Time: 01:30 PM End Time: 03:30 PM
Content: General / All
Facilitator(s): Heather Sheehan
Location: Black Water Middle School
Room: Media Center
Target: All Teachers
Description: Develop a DonorsChoose application to take advantage of a generous matching grant from the Knight and Waccamaw Community Foundations.
Basic InterWrite Pad Training
Start Time: 08:00 AM End Time: 10:00 AM
Content: Technology
Facilitator(s): Elizabeth Coen
Location: Black Water Middle School
Room: 810
Target: Elementary and Middle School Teachers
Target Grds: 03,04,05,06,07,08
Description: This session is for teachers with very little knowledge of the InterWrite Pad software. Participants will have an opportunity to load the software for their InterWrite pads as well as begin using the features of the device. There will be hands-on demonstration as well as time to play with the device. PLEASE BRING your laptop and Interwrite Pad FULLY CHARGED! Power supply very limited.
Seclusionary Time Out and Physical Restraint Training
MORNING SESSION CANCELLED; AFTERNOONSESSION STILL AVAILABLE
Start Time: 12:00 PM End Time: 03:30 PM
Content: Administration / Leadership,
Classroom Management, Special Education
Facilitator(s): Charles Conant
Location: Whittemore Park Middle
Room: Auditorium
Target: All Staff
Target Grds: ALL
Description: Training in the District's policies and procedures for Seclusionary Time Out (STO) and Physical Restraint (PR).
Basic Teacher Web Page Creation
MBM Session FULL
New Session Added:
St. James Middle – Lab E-2 with Mary
Beth Bennett – 8:30-10:30
Start Time: 8:30 AM End Time: 10:30 AM
Content: Technology
Target Participants: Any teacher at any level who needs to build a web page for his / her school web site
Description: Join us for basic tips and tricks on building your teacher webpage. Bring pictures to upload of yourself and class pictures if you wish. Also be sure you know your login and password for your school web page! See your school’s technology contact to get this before the 19th. Without your login, you won’t be able to participate in this hands-on learning experience.
Interwrite Pad Basics
Start Time: 08:30 AM End Time: 10:30 AM
OR Start Time: 12:30 PM End Time: 2:30 PM
Content Area: Technology
Facilitator: Diane Smith
Location: Ocean Bay Elementary
Room: 504
Target Participants: Any educator who has an Interwrite Pad and laptop
Description: Have you received your Interwrite Pad, and are unsure of where to go from here? Well, this session is for you! Come explore a variety of effective, engaging strategies for using the Interwrite Pad in your classroom TOMORROW! Diane Smith will demonstrate a strategy, and allow participants the chance to practice the strategy in pairs and small groups. *Participants will need to bring a charged laptop and charged Interwrite Pad*. Pair up with another educator, if possible, and bring one set to share.
Title: eClassroom Staff Development
Start Time: 08:30am End Time: 010:30am
OR Start Time: 12:30 PM End Time: 02:30 PM
Content: Technology
Facilitator(s): Ashley Gasperson and Sie Gilbert
School: Black Water Middle School
Room: 6th and 7th Grade Computer Labs
Target Participants: Any teacher at any level who wishes to build an eClassroom for his / herstudents
Description: Join us for basic tips and tricks on building your eClassroom. Be sure you know your login and password for your school web page! See your school’s technology contact to get this before the 19th. Without your login, you won’t be able to participate in this hands-on learning experience.
Reminders & Tips for Classroom
Management in Elementary and
Middle School
Start Time: 8:00 AM End Time: 11:00 AM OR
Start Time: 12:30 PM End Time: 03:30 PM
Content: Classroom Management
Location: Waccamaw Elementary
Room: Media Center
Facilitator(s): Jackie Stanley
Target Participants: All elementary and middle-level teachers
Description: General reminders will be given about classroom management challenges and specific strategies will be examined through small group activities, video clips, support material examination, and sharing. Participants will be able to leave with specific management plans--revised, revamped or totally new!
Getting the Most Out of Your SMARTBoard
Start Time: 09:00 AM End Time: 10:30 AM
Content: Mathematics, Science, Technology
Facilitator(s): Gregory Bryson, Rhonda Singleton
Location: Black Water Middle School
Room: TBD
Target: Elementary and Middle School Math and Science teachers
Target Grds: 03,04,05,06,07,08
Description: So you have a SMARTBoard, now what do you do?? Come get some tips from teachers on how to utilize both the SMARTBoard and the Notebook software to increase learning and student engagement (and make your life easier!). It will be beneficial for participants to bring their laptop. Some topics to be covered: • An overview of interactive learning and student engagement • Operation of the SMARTBoard • Increasing student engagement with the SMARTBoard • Using the SMARTBoard with web sites • Working with other computer applications • Introducing Notebook software • Organizing a SMART Notebook file • Accessing resources in the Educators’ Gallery • Accessing, searching and downloading SMART lessons • Starting points for using the SMARTBoard and Notebook software • Strategies for using PDF, Word, Excel, and PPT with the SMART board • Strategies for sharing lessons and activities with students and parents • Adding interactivity to any lesson
21st Century Elementary Library Programs
Start Time: 08:00 AM End Time: 11:30 AM
Content Area: Library Information Services
Facilitator: David Bell
Location: Ocean Bay Elementary
Room: Media Center
Target Participants: Library Information Specialists – Elementary
Description: The topic is “21st Century Elementary Library Programs”.
Elementary Social Studies and Science (1st- 5th Grade)
Start Time: 08:00 AM End Time: 03:30 PM
Content: Social Studies, Science
Location: Assigned – Carolina Forest Elementary OR Conway Elementary
Facilitator(s): Various
Target: All 1st-5th grade classroom teachers
Target Grds: 01, 02, 03, 04, 05
Description: All first through fifth grade classroom teachers will attend an all-day staff development at their assigned location. Their two sessions will include a focus on Marzano Strategies with Notebooking in Science and a focus on Bloom’s with Assessment in Social Studies.
A detailed scheduleincluding school assignments will be sent to principals and coaches by the end of the week. No pre-registration is required.
Early Childhood Outcome Reporting
Content: Special Education
Start Time: 08:00 AM End Time: 09:30 AM OR
Start Time: 12:00 PM End Time: 01:30 PM
Content: Special Education
Facilitator(s): Diane Gaskins, Deborah Gore
Location: Conway Education Center
Room: TBD
Target: Special Educators and related service staff working in early childhood education
Target Grds: PK,00,01,02,03
Description: Participants will learn the process of the Early Child Outcome Summary Reporting through a PowerPoint presentation and handouts.
Reverse the Math Curse: Base it on the Brain
Start Time: 08:00 AM End Time: 11:00 AM OR
Start Time: 12:30 PM End Time: 03:30 PM
Content: Mathematics
Facilitator(s): Jonna Dougherty
Location: Ocean Bay Middle School
Room: Cafeteria
Target: Middle School Math Teachers
Target Grds: 06,07, 08
Description: Engagement Strategies and Activities for middle school math teachers
Shared Inquiry: Level 1 - 2010
Start Time: 08:00 AM End Time: 04:00 PM
Content: English / Language Arts (ELA), Gifted / Talented
Facilitator(s): Beverly Holt-Pilkey
Location: District Office
Room: Portable 703
Target: Elementary G/T ELA teachers
Target Grds: 03,04,05
Description: Shared Inquiry Training: Level 1 is associated with the Junior Great Books Foundation. Teachers learn questioning techniques and strategies to address nonfiction texts. Teachers must attend 10 hours over the course of two days, and they will receive a certificate for a set of classroom materials. Teachers must attend the session on January 19, 2010 from 8:00 until 4:00 AND the follow-up session on January 20, 2010 from 4:00 until 7:00 p.m.
Middle School Health Educators: Accepting the Challenge
Start Time: 08:00 AM End Time: 1:00 PM
Content Area: Health, Physical Education
Facilitator: Mary Nicoletti
Location: Shoreline Behavioral Health Ropes Course
Target Participants: Middle School Health Education Teachers
Target Grades: 06,07,08
Description: At the beginning of the school year, Dr. Elsberry discussed both the challenges and the rewards of the journey ahead of us in “Reaching Our Destination.” Middle School Health Education Teachers are invited to accept the challenge and spend a day of teambuilding out on the Ropes Course in a Project Adventure-style workshop. Participants will face team and individual challenges, learn to work together in facing these challenges, and learn how to translate that into providing the best in Health Education for our HCS students. The workshop will include low and high elements on the Ropes Course. Wear tennis shoes, active wear and be sure to check the weather the day before & dress accordingly. Lunch will not be provided. Dress in active wear-style clothing & tennis shoes. It may be cold so gloves, hat, and a very warm jacket may be necessary. Check the weather the night before and dress accordingly.
Early Childhood Outcome Reporting
Content: Special Education
Start Time: 08:00 AM End Time: 09:30 AM OR
Start Time: 12:00 PM End Time: 01:30 PM
Content: Special Education
Facilitator(s): Diane Gaskins, Deborah Gore
Location: Conway Education Center
Room: TBD
Target: Special Educators and related service staff working in early childhood education
Target Grds: PK,00,01,02,03
Description: Participants will learn the process of the Early Child Outcome Summary Reporting through a PowerPoint presentation and handouts.
Building Literacy and Musicianship Skills, Part 3
Start Time: 08:00 AM End Time: 03:30 PM
Content: Music
Facilitator(s): Bert Owen
Location: Homewood Elementary
Room: Music Room
Target: K-8 Music Teachers
Target Grds: K-8
Description: Building Literacy and Musicianship Skills Part III Continuation of August sessions teaching how we ‘learn’ music through hearing and imitating patterns before reading (translating notation into sound) and writing (translating sound into notation). The pedagogy also includes additional instruction in the TAKADIMI rhythm-pedagogy system. Techniques studied in the fall for developing rhythm reading readiness, literacy, audiation, musical memory, dictation, and elementary composition.
Integrating Art and Science Standardsfor Visual Arts Teachers
Start Time: 08:00 AM End Time: 03:30 PM
Content: Art
Facilitator(s): Bert Owen
Topic: Integrating Art and Science Standards
Location: Playcard Environmental Center
Room: Gallery
Target: K-8 Visual Arts Teachers
Target Grds: K-8
Description: Visual Arts Teachers Grades K-8 will participate in an interactive workshop with multiple objectives: • Develop awareness of Playcard Environmental Educational Center as a resource for scientific & artistic learning • Explore the SCDE Science Standards Based Playcard Lesson Pans and authentic connections to SCDE Visual Arts Standards • Examine images of scientific field journals of Da Vinci and Audubon • Create an artistic field journal representative of the myriad of learning opportunities at PEEC
Sounds in Motion for Speech Language Clinicians
Start Time: 08:00 AM End Time: 12:00 PM
Content: Special Education, English / Language Arts (ELA), Special Education
Facilitator(s): Abagail Greene
Location: Academy for Arts, Sci and Tech
Room: Room 616
Target: Speech Language Clinicians
Target Grds: PK,00,01,02
Description: Sounds In Motion is a program that can be used with an entire class or a small group to teach the development of active listening, phonemic awareness, auditory discrimination, and articulation skills. Based on the linguistic work of Guberina and developed by Santore, the program uses body movements that contain the elements of pitch, tension, duration, intensity, and the placement of the articulators to teach students phonemes.