PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Spring 2010
February 24th
Title: SmartBoard demonstration
The math department has been using a SmartBoard interactive whiteboard,
purchased thanks to a SERF grant, since September 2008. We will demonstrate
its features and discuss how it has impacted and benefited our teaching.
Facilitators: Ginny Blake, Eva Nigro,
Teachers share their expertise with each other during Professional Development Workshops. Here is a sample of one of the workshop offering. Using an Interactive White Board to enhance classroom teaching. Double click to begin video.
Title: Watch a Media Education Foundation movie: Spin
the Bottle, sex lies and alcohol
Spin the Bottle offers an indispensable critique of the role that contemporary
popular culture plays in glamorizing excessive drinking and high-risk behaviors.
Award-winning media critic Jackson Katz and Jean Kilbourne contrast these
distorted representations with the often disturbing and dangerous ways
that alcohol consumption affects the lives or real young men and women.
Facilitator: Sarah Greeley
Title: iPass
Facilitator: Seth Weiss
Title: Stalin and the GULAG
This seminar will look at the rise of Joseph Stalin in the USSR and then
focus on the creation of the GULAG, the largest penal system ever created.
During his thirty years in power, Stalin instituted policies that led
to the deaths of over ten million people and shattered the lives of countless
more. The material presented in this seminar will be based on my two
years of research funded by NEH as well as interviews collected by LS
students on a trip we took to Siberia in 2001.
Facilitator: Dave Hosford
Title: Visions part II for second year staff
Facilitators: Leslie Gray, Leslie Belcher, Karen Thomsen, Rami Alwan
Title: DBT
An overview of the four modules of DBT so people have a better understanding
of our course called, “Skills for Well-being”.
Facilitators: Jen Reen, Susan Leichtman, Tracie Lopez, Emily Phillips