UEA Summer Academy Registration
UEA offers FREE online courses to our members prepared by veteran educators and our local attorneys covering topics such as Small-Group Reading, Sheltered Instruction, Google Basics, Microsoft 365, Investigations, and more. UEA workshops are designed for educators of all levels of experience, as well as support personnel and staff. Virtual courses will be available 24-hours a day, beginning July 13, 2020.
This opportunity is for UEA Member Only. If you wish to join, you may do so at JoinUEA.com
SUMMER ACADEMY COURSES
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Learn how to successfully implement one of the five critical bests practices that are at the core of highly effective instruction. This course helps to show how to communicate the mastery objective or learning goals to the students and engage the students in the essential question though a daily product.
1 Hour
Learn how to successfully implement one of the five critical bests practices that are at the core of highly effective instruction. This course helps classroom teachers and assistants to identify characteristics of an active “power zone” and articulate the benefits of operating in the “power zone.”
1 Hour
Learn how to successfully implement one of the five critical bests practices that are at the core of highly effective instruction. This course helps classroom teachers and assistants identify the structural components of frequent, small-group purposeful talk and strategies for implementation.
1 Hour
Learn how to successfully implement one of the five critical bests practices that are at the core of highly effective instruction. This course helps individuals identify effective praise and understand the correlation between effective recognition and positive student behavior.
1 Hour
Learn how to successfully implement one of the five critical bests practices that are at the core of highly effective instruction. This course helps teachers define critical writing and identify two writing strategies/tools they will commit to using.
1 Hour
Even as an at-will employee, you have rights. Watch the presentation regarding your fundamental labor rights, and then watch the video as UEA Director of Paraprofessional and Auxiliary Staff, Don Mathis and UEA Staff Attorney Mike Vorsino discuss and define basics “at-will” employee rights in a local “fireside chat.”.
.5 Hours
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Although rare and uncommon to most educators, TEA investigations do occur. Join UEA Staff Attorney Jason Stuart as he shares the ins-and-outs of TEA investigations, maintaining your certification, and Senate Bill 7.
1.5 Hours
Guided Reading is an instructional method in which teachers work with small groups of students who are reading at similar levels. In this course, join Tracy Hill, Instructional Specialist in Keller ISD, and dive into strategies and best practices when using Guided Reading in the primary grades (K-2).
1.5 Hours
Do Google and its many waffle icons scare you? Come check out this session with tips and tricks that will help you navigate throughout Google without making your head explode! Seriously…your brain will leave happy. Join Rachel Parrott as she shows how to navigate the “World of Google.”
1.5 Hours
Sheltered instruction is an approach to teaching English language learners, which integrates language and content instruction. Discover easy to use classroom activities for second language learners. Learn strategies to activate students’ thinking with language acquisition and application.
1.5 Hours
This growth mindset presentation consists of open-ended, differentiated activities. Participates will learn to embed SEL connections into academic content lessons that engage and encourage students to use higher-order thinking skills, internalize character traits, and incorporate problem-solving strategies creating life-long learners in the real world.
1.5 Hours
Office 365 offers up-to-date Microsoft Office applications and cloud services, as well as a variety of collaboration and communication options, but are you using it to its fullest potential with your class? This presentation introduces and explores many of the features and benefits of Office 365, including a few easy tips and tricks to get you started today.
1.5 Hours