Professional Development
Empowering educators through meaningful learning experiences improves the quality and effectiveness of teaching. Let G‑W provide your team with personalized instructional design options and high-quality Professional Development (PD) that deliver new knowledge, skills, and experiences that help you improve and grow in your career.
Ongoing Professional Development inspires teachers and students, improves student outcomes, and helps educators continue to innovate throughout their career. Select a topic on the right to learn more.
Instructional Strategies
Add to your teacher toolbox by incorporating activities to achieve learning outcomes.
Focus on improving what teachers do in the classroom day to day with G‑W Professional Development. Based on peer-reviewed research from leading experts such as Dewey, Hattie, Almarode, and many more, our PD centers on instructional practices, making every session applicable for educators from Kindergarten to college as well as industry partners. All PD sessions can be personalized to meet your department/organizational goals and can be applied to any subject.
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Activate the Textbook
Explore easy, ready-to-use ideas and strategies to energize your classroom, increase student engagement, and allow learners to interact with the content in multiple ways.
Practice these interactive strategies to engage, explore, explain, and extend learning across any discipline as you model student choice by delving into content applicable to your program.
Time: 90-120 minutes Delivery: In person or virtual
5 Instructional Strategies in 50 Minutes
Looking for new instructional strategies to use as your students interact with content? Let us explore five strategies, each aligned with one of the 5Es
(engage, explore, explain, extend, evaluate) of the 5E lesson structure. You will walk away with five new strategies to use in your classroom tomorrow.
Time: 50 minutes Delivery: In person or virtual
5 Effective Strategies to Unlock the Power of Classroom Discussion
Discussion is a powerful tool in the classroom. Class discussions are used primarily as a tactic to raise student engagement, often as an “icebreaker” activity or to activate students'
prior knowledge. But class discussions can also be a rich source of data that allow teachers to understand the thinking of their students. Current research explains how discussion can increase student learning, and support teachers in understanding and assessing student thinking. Join us to experience five strategies to unlock the power of discussion in your classroom.
Time: 60-180 minutes Delivery: In person or virtual
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