Staff Development Structures and Formats
Click on any Workshop title for a full description of the structure and format.
The Workshops:
A CES Workshop for a group of approximately 30 participants is an effective
introduction to the hands-on understanding and classroom application
the topic at hand.
CES workshops always involve participants in an interactive learning process.
CES workshops can be flexible in length depending on the client’s needs.
Traditional time lengths (and possible structures) are:
One and a half hour Introductory Workshop:
- Participants are engaged in two or three activities they can use
immediately with their classes;
- They discuss the academic and behavioral validity of the approach taught;
- They discuss what other kinds of activities could be used and
which other academic or behavioral objectives could be addressed
by using the same principles.
- A Introductory Workshop costs $400.
3-Hour Overview Workshop:
- Participants engage in half a dozen or more activities they can
use immediately with their own classes;
- They discuss the academic and behavioral validity and further
application of the principles used;
- They work in groups to design their own curriculum lesson plans
and accompanying activities following the relevant Content Standards;
- They present their findings to the class.
- A Overview Workshop costs $600.
Full Day Comprehensive Workshop:
- Participants engage in half a dozen or more activities they can use
immediately with their own classes;
- They discuss the academic and behavioral validity and
further application of the principles used;
- They work in groups to design their own curriculum lesson plans
and accompanying activities following the relevant Content Standards;
they present their findings to the class;
- Participants also engage in curriculum mapping and create,
in groups, an outline for a complete, integrated thematic curriculum unit,
including selection of activities for each lesson in the unit;
- They present their findings to the other groups, discuss,
critique and refine.
- A Comprehensive Workshop lasts up to 6 hours and costs $800.
Two-Day Seminar
- Participants engage in dozens of curriculum-based activities
they can use immediately with their own classes;
- They discuss the academic and behavioral validity and further
application of the principles used;
- They work in groups to design their own academic lesson plans
and accompanying activities following the relevant Content Standards;
- They present their findings to the class;
- Participants also engage in curriculum mapping and create,
in groups, an outline for a complete, integrated thematic curriculum
unit, including selection of activities for each lesson in the unit.
- A Two-Day Seminar costs $1500.
When school or district personnel select a CES workshop or seminar,
they can specify ahead of time a particular content focus. They can
choose, for example, "science" to be the general content area from
which workshop applications will be drawn, or "understanding human
nutritional needs" as a more specific subject to be used throughout
the workshop. CES has delivered workshops in all different content
areas for a variety of developmental needs.
CES Master Artist Teachers teach 30-hour, 3-credit courses in the
"Theory of Multiple Intelligences," "Teaching Curriculum Through the
Arts," "Thematic, Interdisciplinary Curriculum," "Producing the School
Play," and "Designing Your
Own Curriculum Guide." Clients may specify ahead of time a particular
curriculum focus or even specific curriculum units. Participants will
use part of their class time developing lesson plans for the unit.
Costs for a Course are negotiable.
For more information please contact us at
CES, P.O. Box 6659, East Brunswick, NJ 08816;
or call (732) 698-9885
or click here
to e-mail us at info@creativeeducationalsystems.com
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description of CES workshop offerings.
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