Training+Syllabus

=** Using Clicker 6 for Educators Grades Pre K - 2 **= ====Teachers and staff who work with or teach students in grade levels Pre K – 2 will learn how to use the Clicker 6 software and Learning Grid website to meet the needs of their students. Educators will also create lessons integrating Clicker 6 with the MCPS curriculum to use within their classroom. The Using Clicker 6 for Educators Grades Pre K – 2 training will consist of five, four hour trainings (Appendix A). Each day, educators from grade levels Pre – K through 2 will identify ways to integrate the Clicker 6 software and its companion website Learninggrids.com with the Montgomery County Curriculum. Educators from these grade levels will also be able to create lessons based upon Montgomery County and Maryland State standards while differentiating activities to meet all students’ needs.====


 * Facilitator: Jenn Martin**
 * e-mail jennifer_martin@mcpsmd.org**

**Audience**
====This training will be geared towards educators who teach or work with students in grade levels Pre K – 2. As identified through surveys of Montgomery County Public Schools staff members and teachers, this class will be geared towards teachers who have beginning to intermediate experience using Clicker 6. Staff members taking this training will understand how to access a software program through their Montgomery County Public Schools log in and need basic skills in understanding how to access a website. These skills are necessary as teachers will be opening the Clicker 6 program through Montgomery County Public School computers and will be using the Learninggrid.com website to download individual grids to teach students lessons or for students to use to support student learning. Teachers and staff who will be a part of this training reflect a diverse group of educators who comes from a variety of ethnic and cultural backgrounds as well as teachers who have less than one year experience to teachers who have 20 plus years of experience.====

Introduction to Clicker 6/ Getting to Know You ||  Day 2 Differentiating/ Reading ||  Day 3 Writing ||  Day 4 Math/ Science/ Social Studies ||  Day 5 Creating Learning Grids for your Class ||
 * **Using Clicker 6 for Educators Grades Pre K – 2 Workshop Syllabus** ||
 * Day 1
 * - Introduction to Clicker 6 and learning grids

- Learning Grid scavenger hunt

- Scavenger hunt reflection

- How to create “myself” presentation

- Educators create "myself" presentation

- Educators share "myself" presentation

- Closing/ Evaluation || - Identify what are the needs of our students

- Groups identify grids to match learning needs

- Sharing/ reflection of which grids match what learning needs

- Identifying reading grids in grade level groups

- Sharing grids

- Closing/ Evaluation || - How to create a diary for Clicker 6

- Create a diary for Clicker 6

- Educators share diary/ reflection

- What does writing look like in grades Pre K - 2?

- Assign writing topics to Educators

- Identify grids based upon given writing topic

- Share writing grids

- Closing/ Evaluation || - Identify topics in math based on grade level teams

- Math topic scavenger hunt by grade level

- Share results of math scavenger hunt

- Identify topics in Science and Social Studies for grades Pre K - 2.

- In teams identify Science and Social Studies grids

- Present Science and Social Study grids.

- Closing/ Evaluation || - How to create your own learning grid

- Educators work in groups or individually to create learning grids for Clicker 6 to use within their classroom

- Share learning grids

- Closing/ Evaluation ||