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Educators turned out for an elementary schools workshop on “Using Podcasting to Enrich Learning” held at UFT headquarters on May 7. Teachers came to enhance their teaching with new media skills by learning how to create podcasts and use persuasive, standards-based writing to develop scripts for their podcasts.
Since the new Paraprofessional Academy opened its doors this past fall, every class has been filled to the maximum, according to UFT Paraprofessionals Chapter Chairperson Shelvy Young-Abrams. Whenever she goes into a school, paraprofessionals “ask for training, training, training,” Abrams said at a May 2 certification workshop.
The theme of the day was “Collaboration: Changing Lives Together,” and it brought 450 early childhood educators to UFT headquarters for their fifth annual conference on March 24. “We can’t do it alone, we know it takes parents, teachers, family child care providers, administrators and advocates for children,” said UFT Vice President for Elementary Schools Karen Alford.
Some 300 members of the UFT’s Speech Improvement Chapter turned out for two six-hour workshops, held at the UFT’s lower Manhattan headquarters on March 17 and 18, to learn about “Lively Letters” and “Sight Words You Can See,” two dynamic programs shown to dramatically improve student reading.
More than 10,000 educators from across the United States and leading educators from 23 countries with high-performing schools gathered at the seventh annual Celebration of Teaching and Learning to honor educators as global professionals and to find innovative solutions to the nation’s most pressing education issues.
The UFT has always stood for teachers helping teachers, but that aspect of our mission has never been so critically important as it is now, in these final years of the Bloomberg administration. The work you have done to support each other in these difficult times has been astounding.
More than a thousand chapter leaders and principals, at the UFT’s invitation, quietly sat down together in packed working sessions from January to early March to learn more about the Charlotte Danielson Framework for Teaching for examining teaching practices. Principals attended in large numbers after their union partnered with the UFT in organizing the sessions.
Teachers in the Absent Teacher Reserve pool are participating February and March in professional development sessions sponsored by the UFT Teacher Center in partnership with the city’s Department of Education. The educators are being released from work to attend the all-day training sessions.
Brooklyn teachers Derek Doeschner, a fourth-year teacher at Brooklyn’s PS 36, Tatyana Sirota of PS 200 and Rita Bhatt of MS 131 were three of more than 50 educators who packed the Feb. 7 elementary school workshop, “Scaffolding Writing and Vocabulary for English Language Learners,” given at UFT headquarters.
More than 340 key activists from the union’s 14 functional chapters took part in a series of plenaries, practical workshops and small-group and informal discussions aimed at training the union’s grassroots leadership over the Jan. 21 weekend.
Hundreds of chapter leaders and administrators turned out in January for UFT Teacher Center-led training sessions in Queens and Manhattan on the Danielson Framework for Teaching.
The Celebration of Teaching and Learning, a two-day professional development conference that brings together educational experts and advocates and more than 10,000 educators, will be returning to New York for its seventh year on March 16-17 at the Hilton Hotel in Manhattan.
Linette Ebanks had always read storybooks to the children who attend her child care program, Little People’s Retreat, in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. But then she was shown the “picture walk,” a technique to more actively engage children during story time by showing them pictures from a book before reading it and asking them what they think it will be about.
Election Day 2011 provided yet another opportunity for more than a thousand UFT members to receive training at UFT-sponsored sessions.
Tourette Syndrome, the neurological condition that causes people to make repeated, quick muscle movements — called tics — or sounds that they cannot control, is getting needed attention from UFT members.
When I was a young girl in Argentina, living in another language, I read the newspaper columns that women wrote. Through the printed word, they were able to put forth new ideas, challenge the status quo and create new possibilities for our daily lives. The articles I was most drawn to were those that reported on the plight of “los maestros,” the teachers, and how they were always fighting to bring education and justice to all.
The more than 80 Queens UFTers who attended an informational workshop on Sept. 22 on education researcher Charlotte Danielson’s Frameworks for Teaching learned that during this school year, only teachers in the 33 restart and transformation schools will be evaluated using Danielson’s evaluation rubric; it will be used for practice only in the pilot “Talent Management” schools.
Many student vocalists across the city will not be standing still anymore when they raise their voices in song. At the first of seven workshops planned by the New York City Music Teachers Association, teachers learned about adding choreography to enhance choral music and motivate students when they came to union headquarters on Sept. 17.
From Aug. 22 to 26, at union headquarters, the UFT and the AFT worked in cooperation with the International Chemical Workers Union Council on the 10th annual Secondary School Chemical Emergency Response training course.
Teachers from all boroughs streamed to the UFT on Sept. 8 for fall course registration and guidance.
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