10/28/2008
EXCITING NEW OPPORTUNITY!
The Personnel Development Partnerships Grant is making available financial support to individuals seeking a Masters degree in speech/language pathology who are willing to work in Florida’s public schools with student’s with communication disorders. Tuition funds of $1000 per semester will be available to eligible participants. For more information you may view our flyer at http://www.coedu.usf.edu/pdp/documents/Flyer_SLP.pdf and contact Peggy Forgan at pforgan@fau.edu for an application.
Got the HOTS for Inquiry?
This digital workshop presented by Gail Wortmann shows you how you can increase student learning by integrating inquiry and Higher Order Thinking Skills (H.O.T.S.) into instruction, discusses how to incorporate inquiry and the revised Bloom’s Taxonomy into student assessment, disaggregate the “scientific method” and connect it to inquiry, and discuss assessments for inquiry and H.O.T.S. Many science classroom activities are also presented within this digital workshop. View this presentation anytime at https://www.t2tweb.us/Digital/workshop_hots/index.html.
Call for Creative Art
VSA arts and the CVS Caremark All Kids Can program are joining together in a comprehensive national campaign to encourage inclusive arts education and provide increased public awareness of the arts in the lives and learning of young people with disabilities. The culminating activity of the campaign will be a national exhibit of a selection of works by children held in Washington, D.C. This year’s theme is “Celebrating Who I Am.” What is it that makes you unique? What are your interests, talents, and dreams? What do you like to do? Be creative to show what makes you YOU! Participating teachers are eligible to receive $1,000 for use in your classroom. Five $1,000 awards will be distributed. The number of submissions from your class or school, the number of submissions from students with disabilities, and your answers to two short questions will all be taken into consideration. Deadline: March 6th, 2009. For more information or to submit a picture online visit http://www.vsarts.org/prebuilt/showcase/gallery/exhibits/calls/AllKidsCan.
“Diagnosis, Evaluation and Treatment”
The next CHADD of Lee County meeting topic will be “Diagnosis, Evaluation And Treatment.” The guest speaker will be J. Christopher McGinnis, Ph.D., a local psychologist who will provide information about the psychological evaluation, diagnostic criteria, comprehensive assessment, executive functions, over/under diagnosis, and recommendations and therapy.
Lee Memorial Hospital Auditorium
Fort Myers, FL
CHADD meetings are free and open to the public. If you have any questions, please contact Chapter President, Lynne Lampila, at (239) 466-1167.
Extended Deadline to Apply for Picturing America Materials
The National Endowment for the Humanities recently extended the deadline (to November 14) for the second round of Picturing America applications. This initiative promotes the study, teaching, and understanding of U.S. history and culture by introducing students and the general public to America’s art treasures. It supplies schools and public libraries with free, high-quality reproductions of 40 great American works of art (approximately 24″ x 36″ in size) and an illustrated teacher resource book with notes for all grade levels. The materials will be delivered in spring 2009. For more information, please go to http://picturingamerica.neh.gov/.
