Best Practices:
Staff Development on the Go!
 
 
 
Episode Eleven
Wednesday, November 28, 2007
 
  Universal Design for Learning (UDL) - Denise DeCoste, Team Leader for the High Incidence  Accessible Technology Team, discusses Teaching Every Student in the Digital Age:
Universal Design for Learning by David Rose and Anne Mayer.

 How the Brain Learns   - Judy Duffield discusses How the
 
Episode Ten
Wednesday, November 21, 2007
 
  Promethean Interactive Whiteboards - Chris Ground, Secondary Math Content Specialist, discusses interactive whiteboard, student response systems, and software available from Promethean.

 Habits of Mind   - Judy Duffield discusses “Describing 16 Habits of Mind”
by Arthur L. Costa, Ed. D. and
 
Episode Nine
Friday, May 18, 2007
 
 
 
MICCA (Maryland Instructional Computer ) Conference  2007 - Will Richardson

Podcast, Vodcast, Screencast Nation (Will Richardson presenter)   - Multimedia content creation on the Web increased at the rate of 3200% last year, and it shows no rate of slowing down. From audiocasts to screencasts
 
Episode Eight
Thursday, May 17, 2007
 
MICCA (Maryland Instructional Computer ) Conference  2007 - Participant Perspectives

Technology Trends  - Amy Martin, a graduate student at Towson University, discusses trends based on conference sessions and vendor offerings.
 Keynote Speakers and New Technologies - Nichole Catalano and Tressa
 
Episode Seven
Friday, May 11, 2007
 
 
Episode Six
Friday, March 9, 2007
 
 
Episode Five
Monday, November 13, 2006
 
Staff Development Best Practices - Stephanie Hirsh, Deputy Executive Director for the National Staff Develoment Council discusses issues in staff development. For more information:
http://www.nsdc.org/library/authors/hirsh.cfm
 
Episode Four
Friday, October 20, 2006
 
 MICCA Conference - Marjie Geldon discusses conference sessions from the Maryland Instructional Computers Coordinators Association on blogs, wikis, and podcasts.

 TESOL Conference - Afie Mirshah-Nayer discusses a preliminary report from the national Teachers of English to Speakers of Other
 
Episode Three
Tuesday, August 22, 2006
 
 Computers and Libraries - Myra Paul discusses conference sessions from the Internet Schools East strand of the Computers and Libraries conference.

 Probing and Delving - Angie Burrell discusses best practices in questioning techniques.

 Closing the Achievement Gap - Judy Duffield discusses a
 
Episode Two
Tuesday, August 22, 2006
 
 Becoming Multicultural Educators - Lola Crawford discusses this book edited by Geneva Gay

 ESOL and Math Instruction - Afie Mirshah-Nayer discusses a best practices in the language of math and ESOL students.
 Closing the Achievement Gap - Judy Duffield discusses the chapter of this book on “
 
 
This podcast series will focus on research-based best practices for improving teaching and learning. David Kreisberg,, instructional specialists for the Office of Organizational Development  in Montgomery County Public Schools, will be your host.

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Best Practices: Staff Development on the Go!
David Kreisberg