SMART Certified Professional Development Courses – Coming to a City Near You!
Advanced Education is pleased to announce our Fall Professional Development Series in selected cities across Ontario. From September 29th until November 19th Advanced Education will administer the SMART Intermediate Level Course.
Register today as there are few spots available for these upcoming sessions. (All equipment now provided including laptop computers!).
*For SMART Board Fundamentals or SMART Board Advanced courses, click here.
Harness the power of your SMART Board interactive whiteboard with professional development from Advanced. Whether a novice or a seasoned veteran, our SMART certified teachers help educators make effective use of technology to:
- Engage students with exciting multimedia that focuses the attention of the entire class
- Save on preparation time by creating and delivering the lesson plan directly from the computer
- Improve students’ performance by accessing a range of learning templates created by teachers based on standard curriculum.
Experienced educators, who hold degrees from Ontario Faculties of Education, lead full-day classes that are a combination of instruction and hands-on learning. We introduce concepts and features in a systematic way and give participants time to work with the tools on a SMART Board while experimenting with ways to integrate that feature in their classroom.
Attendees will receive a comprehensive set of notes from the course, a notebook for personal notes, a USB stick and the new book “SMART Board for Dummies”. A certificate will be given after completion of the courses.
Instructional and Hands-on training
Advanced Education is bringing our Professional Development training to you. Class sizes are limited to twenty (20) participants. With 7 SMART Boards in the classroom, this course will offer a SMART Board ratio of 3:1.
Computers will be provided and the workshop will alternate between instructional and hands-on. This unique feature lets every student experience the SMART Board first-hand, and to experiment with new techniques. Attendees are welcome to bring their own laptop to make notes if they have one. Computers are provided on a 3:1 ratio.
Please read this carefully: The SMART Intermediate Level Course is exclusively designed for teachers who have been using their SMART Board for about a year, or those who have attended a SMART Fundamentals course, and who want to learn more strategies for integrating the SMART Board into their classroom practices.
The SMART Intermediate Level Course focuses on:
- A review of the concepts and features from the SMART Fundamentals session
- Using Object properties to differentiate
- Strategies for using SMART link features in the classroom
- Integrating and updating existing resources for use with the SMART board
- Downloading and modifying existing SMART lessons
- Strategies for using PDF, Word, Excel, and PPT with the SMART board
- Strategies for sharing lessons and activities with students and parents
- Adding interactivity to any lesson
- Organizing resources for re-use with SMART Notebook software
- Grouping pages by category
Course Dates
Toronto – September 29 Barrie – October 1 Oshawa – October 9 Burlington – Oct 15 Mississauga – Oct 21 Kitchener/Waterloo – Oct 28 |
London – Oct 30 Sudbury – November 3 North Bay – November 5 Ottawa – Nov 17 Kingston – November 19 |
Looking for SMART Board Fundamentals or SMART Board Advanced? Attend our Inhouse PD Courses:
SMART Board Fundamentals
Mississauga - Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Advanced Presentation Products (head office)
450 Matheson Blvd East, Unit 59
Mississauga, ON
L4Z 1R5
Click here to register
SMART Board Advanced
Mississauga - Tuesday, October 22, 2009
Advanced Presentation Products (head office)
450 Matheson Blvd East, Unit 59
Mississauga, ON
L4Z 1R5
Click here to register
Agenda
9:30AM – 12:00PM – session
12:00PM – 12:45PM – lunch
12:45PM – 4:00PM – session
Lunch and breakout snacks will be served.
Cost
$245.00 + GST per person
(All major credit cards are accepted)
Discounts for 5 or more attendees.
Courses are limited to 20 people per session.
To help implement their knowledge, participants receive a notebook for personal notes from the workshop, a USB stick containing information and lesson plans that they produced during the course and the latest book, “SMART Board for Dummies”, a comprehensive set of notes designed to enhance users’ experiences with SMART Board interactive whiteboard. A certificate will be given after completion of the courses.
