For Career Choices Series Lead Teachers and/or Lead Administrators
Imagine that you could develop your own in-house team leader for your Career Choices Series/freshman transition course effort; someone who had the training and the tools to easily:
- Provide implementation workshops for new teachers
- Lead content-rich, capacity-building workshops for their team throughout the year
- Create buy-in strategies for the rest of the school personnel
- Oversee the school-wide adoption of students’ 10-year plans as an effective advisory option
- Facilitate the updating of students' plans in grades 10-12 with the Get Focused...Stay Focused!® 10-year Plan follow-up modules
You will leave the
Get Focused...Stay Focused!® Lead Administrator/Teacher Institute with an action plan and all the tools to implement high-quality professional development to improve and ensure the success of your program.
- A step-by-step agenda for 22 hours of ongoing professional development
- 22 training videos to make workshops easy to conduct with confidence and minimal preparation
- Strategies and tools for getting buy-in for the Freshman Transition Initiative from staff, parents, and community members
- Innovative classroom teaching strategies that create involved learners
- Career Choices Series coursework and the strategies that make it so successful
- Optional academic and technology integration strategies that can be incorporated into Career Choices classrooms
- The Get Focused...Stay Focused!® 10-year Plan follow-up modules (for grades 10-12)
- My10yearPlan.com® and how to use it as a school-wide tool for supporting academic coaching and advisory functions
This workshop is different from a two-day
Career Choices Series implementation workshop (which is ideal for first-time
Career Choices Series instructors).
To benefit as much as possible from the Lead Teacher Institute, it is required that participants complete at least one of the following prior to attending:
Who Should Attend?
- This institute is ideal for Career Choices Series Lead Teachers and/or Lead Administrators
- Lead Teachers approved by the principal/administrator of your site
- Administrators responsible for high school or middle school campus professional development