Hoover Middle School

Staff Development

Department Chair:  Martha C. Sherman 

The school-based staff development teacher (SDT) is an instructional leader founded in strong instructional practices who fosters development and growth of professional learning communities and facilitates job-embedded staff development. In collaboration with the principal, school leadership, and other stakeholders, the SDT supports the goal of building staff capacity to meet system wide and local school initiatives to increase student learning.

Baldridge

• My Success Plan
• Plus/Delta signs
• Plus/Delta poster
• Plus/Delta feedback

Classroom Management

• Making Corrections
• Managing Behavior via Teaching Style
• Nice Ways to Gain Compliance
• Problems
• Save Classroom Time with Clear Directions
• Schoolwide Positive Behavior Support
• Strategies for Dealing with Oppositional Students
• Succeeding with Difficult Students
• Summary of Major Concepts (Harry Wong)
• Ways to Catch Kids Being Good

Diversity

• Levels of Racism (article)
• Race and Equity Articles

Promethean Board

• Intro
  • 21st Century Classroom - Module 1
  • Converting a Word File to an Activestudio Flip Chart
  • Promethean Board Overview
  • Top Teaching Tips
  • Using Equation Editor or Map Type in Active Studio
• Activotes
  • Assigning Names
  • Creating Assessments
  • How to Register
  • Preprogrammed Answers
  • Registration
• Inserting Multimedia
  • Importing
• Promethean Planet
• Resource Pack
  • Installing Resource Pack
  • Resource Pack
• Miscellaneous
  • Containers
  • Presentation Tools
  • Presentation Tools - Classroom Management

Rigor

• Rigor on Trial (article)
• Rigorous Instrutional Practices
• Rigorous Instruction Look-Fors
• Zone of Proximal Development

Summarizers

• 3-2-1 Summarizers 
• A-B-C Summarizers 
• ABC Review 
• Alphabet Box 
• The Best Test 
• Boggle 
• Carousel Brainstorming 
• Challenge Envelopes 
• Connect the Dots 
• Connect the Dots Wordsplash 
• Exit Card Questions 
• Exit Slips 
• Final Countdown 
• Final Countdown Graphic 
• Four Box Synectics 
• Four-Two-One 
• Frayer Model 
• Frayer Model for Polygon
• Give One, Get One, Move On (GOGOMO) 
• GOGOMO Directions 
• GOGOMO Graphic Organizer 
• GOGOMO Using Activators 
• Inside Outside Circle 
• Jigsaw 
• Last Word 
• Learning Frame Graphic 
• Learning Frames 
• Learning Logs 
• Luck of the Draw 
• Luck of the Draw Description 
• Luck of the Draw Form 
• May I Have the Envelope Please 
• One Question Quiz 
• Paired Verbal Fluency 
• Postcard Summarizar 
• Postcard Evidence of Student Learning 
• Postcard Exit Card 
• Relay Summary Directions
• Relay Summary 
• Round the Room and Back 
• Shaping Up Review 
• Shaping Up Graphic 
• SONAR 
• Sort Card Review 
• Sort Cards Explanation 
• Step-by-Step Relay
• Sticking to It
• Stop Light Summarizer
• Synectics
• Think, Pair, Share
• Ticket to Leave
• Vanity Plates
• What are Activators
• Why Use Activators
• Window Pane Activity
• Word Splash
• Word Splash Summarizer
• Write a Rap