The McKeel IBIS Project is presenting the 2ND SEMESTER BOOT CAMP in partnership with Project DELTA
and Plato Academy Schools in the College of Education Building at Daytona State College. Participants of
this FREE professional development experience will have a choice of 17 sessions to kick-start a successful
new year and get their 2nd Semester off to a great start!
Beyond Google – How to Navigate through the Obstacle Course of Research
If your students drown in Google, come learn how to throw them a life raft. This session will make you a smarter captain of the research
sea and in turn show you how to teach your students to challenge the internet and REALLY research online with vetted, authentic
research resources.
Using Six-Word Memoirs as a Critical Thinking Tool
Are you looking for ways to challenge your students to summarize, find theme, and analyze key people and processes in your
curriculum? Six-word memoirs can help! Plus, use them as a starting point for written response, and easily assess student
understanding while satisfying the new Florida writing standards, which are cross curricular. The six-word format provides a lasertuned focus for the students as they write, and the process helps them create detailed, evidence-based elaborations.
Make Room for Elaboration
“It’s been said that where your treasure is there will your heart be also.” Join us as we explore the treasure trove of details found in
your very own room. Learn ways to help students make the most of revision. No more boring descriptions, it’s time to pack up and
move to a new room where elaboration and imagination play.
Power of Math for Deeper Thinking: Math & Literacy Intertwined
Targeting math (and science) teachers, participants will gain further knowledge of new math standards with examples and
opportunities to work with math/literacy activities. Dig deeper into Mathematical Practices, unpack standards and look at new
assessment resources to gain further understanding of recent changes in Florida requirements.
Science Inquiry: Diving Into Deep Thinking
Through a hands-on inquiry based learning model, participants will learn best practices of inquiry and questioning techniques. During
this session, teachers will also learn about the integration of technology, literacy standards and the new science standards NGSS.
So You’re Not a Reading Teacher?!
Are you not a reading teacher but have to teach reading? Do you need ideas for taking a passage to a deeper level? This session takes
one reading passage and navigates you through questioning, incorporating technology and comparisons to teach reading for
content. Participants will receive a Depth of Knowledge educator's wheel and learn how to use it in their classrooms .
Quick Edits: Tactics for Painlessly Adding Grammar to Your Curriculum Grammar: it’s a bad word! Learn a new
tactical approach that invites students to discover what's right about brilliant sentences instead of the old methods (like DOL) of trying
to find mistakes in horrible ones. Focus on stealthily inserting rules of grammar into your existing reading and writing plans, making
the learning outcome more authentic and useful, resulting in higher retention of key ideas for your students... and less frustration for
YOU!
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Great Finds in Content
Digging for word choice and details is like finding a treasure within the text. Learn how this
technique can be used to create deeper summaries of content and creative applications. The new
standards of curriculum ask students to think deeper about a text and encourages teachers to
provide higher-level questions for all students. Learn how to apply critical thinking strategies using
mentor text and interactive activities.
Hands-On Equations: Demystifying Mathematical Expressions
Wouldn't it be amazing to see elementary and middle school students solve complex equations such as 2x + x + 4 + 2x = 3x +10 in 30
seconds or less? Participants of this hands-on session will learn how to use the Hands-On Equations’ visual and kinesthetic approach to
build a conceptual understanding of mathematics. Participants will also be introduced to the digital component of the program, which
is highly affordable and equally effective.
Using Google Apps for a Paperless Classroom
Discover how you can use Google apps for your students' workflow to assign projects, collect work, assess your students and provide
feedback without using paper. Google Application Suite is free and easy to use.
Technology Tools Ooh-Rah!
This hands-on session is designed to reach both the technologically savvy and technologically challenged. Explore technology that will
support the Florida standards no matter what you teach. Best of all, learn to use free internet programs that not only make it fun for
your students but great for you as the teacher! Follow along with your own device as you load your technology toolkit.
A Blueprint for Building Better Sentences
Learn new, innovative and appealing methods to teach sentence types with an easy-to-use sentence structure format that can be a
playground to engage and excite students including the Sentence Smackdown! Use not only for writing practice but also for grammar
and sentence revision with special emphasis on the importance of variety in all styles of writing.
Make Mine Rocky Road: Using Word Choice to Flavor Your Writing
What are ‘vanilla’ and ‘rocky road’ words? Let me share the recipe for identifying and infusing vivid and sophisticated word choice to
enhance writing. Using a variety of fiction and non-fiction mentor text, group discussion, and activities, I will demonstrate using the
right word and boosting the flavor of a summary, plus other ways students can apply flavor to their writing.
Administrator’s Guide to Math Observations – This session will help administrators gain a deeper understanding of new
math standards, CPALMS resources and new assessment types. School leaders will examine how Math and ELA Literacy standards are
intertwined and incorporated into the eight Mathematical Practices. Discussion will center on the importance of formative assessment
and what to look for during classroom walk-throughs and observations.
FSA Reading & Writing – Preparing for the Test!
Feeling defeated about what to expect? Don’t raise the white flag! We will shed some light on the new assessments and share what
we’ve learned. You’ll leave with information on what to expect and how to teach your students to succeed in this mode of reading and
writing.
Mathematics: Navigating From χ to Why?
Professional development on the standards for mathematical practices will support teachers in the transition to a more rigorous and
conceptual driven approach to mathematics instruction. During this session, questioning techniques and effective classroom
procedures will be explained through modeling and student work.
Gamify Your Classroom Now! 21st Century Formative Assessments
Participants of this hands-on, BYOD event will have the chance to examine four game-based classroom solutions that will help
transform your classrooms into dynamic learning environments. In this session, we will experience four device agnostic platforms,
Socrative, Kahoot, FlipQuiz, and Plickers, and we will explore how each tool can be used in a classroom to help teachers collect data that
can be used as formative assessments.
The McKeel IBIS Project (www.mckeelschools.com/IBIS) of McKeel Academy of Technology is joined by Project DELTA
(http://projectdelta.yolasite.com) of Sigsbee Charter School and Plato Academy Schools (www.superiortech4teachers.com)
to provide a well-rounded, cross curricular conference.