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Logistics
Required book(s) or materials: Creativity and Collaborative Learning: The Practical Guide to Empowering Students, Teachers, and Families, Second Edition
Seminar length: 1-10 days
Number of participants: 20 or more
Who will benefit from this seminar: Teachers in inclusive classrooms, general education, or special education; school administrators; and other faculty members working with students with special needs or challenging behavior Speaker Fees: (What do fees include?)
1 day: $2800
2–5 days: $2200 per day
Additional evening presentation: $660 per evening
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Build your own seminar from the workshops listed above. Combine workshops to create a program as short as 1 day or as long as 2 weeks! Six hours represent a full day, and 1-1/2- or 2-hour workshops can be added as an evening program. These workshops can also be combined with workshops listed for the seminar “Creating and Maintaining Inclusive Schools.”
Have another idea? Tell us about it, and we’ll do our best to customize this seminar to your needs!
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Seminar Description
Dr. Villa guides school personnel through different strategies of creativity and collaboration for helping all students (and teachers, administrators, and faculty members) reach their potential in inclusive classrooms. Seminars can be built from the workshops listed below. Combinations of shorter workshops provide an excellent introduction to different topics, and longer sessions allow for more active audience involvement, additional student examples, and time for questions and answers.
Exchanging Dissonance for Harmony: Creative Responses to Students Experiencing Behavioral and Emotional Challenges
Participants will explore the relationship between theories of motivation, communication, and student behavior. They’ll learn to distinguish between punishment and discipline, and examine assumptions underlying discipline systems. The workshop highlights a constellation of supports and services for meeting the needs of learners who experience behavioral and emotional challenges. Length: 2 to 6 hours. A 2-day guided practice is also available to school teams.
Diversified Inclusion
Participants will explore whole class, group, and individualized instructional strategies designed to meet the needs of a diverse student body. Topics include approaches to differentiating the content students learn, the process through which they learn it, and how they demonstrate what they have learned. Length: 1-1/2 to 3 hours.
Accommodations & Modifications
Participants will acquire skills in developing accommodations and modifications to curriculum, instruction, and assessment for learners who experience mild, moderate, and severe challenges. Length: 1-1/2 to 6 hours.
Cooperative Group Learning
Participants will experience the three learning/goal structures—competitive, individualistic and cooperative—that teachers can use to facilitate student learning. They will also learn the critical elements of the model of cooperative group learning developed by David and Roger Johnson, and explore the role of the teacher in establishing cooperative groups. Length: 3 hours to 3 days. In 1-day (6-hour) workshops, participants will review model lesson plans and work in groups to devise cooperative group lesson plans. In 2-day workshops, participants will also develop lesson plans that include accommodations for learners of differing abilities. This workshop may be extended to 5 days so that participants have multiple opportunities to design, deliver, and evaluate cooperative lessons, and to receive direct observational feedback and coaching from the instructor.
Partner Learning Systems
Participants will develop an understanding of the benefits of partner learning systems for tutors, tutees, and instructional management personnel. Successful examples of partner learning systems will be shared. In addition, the participants will develop a plan for recruiting, preparing, and supervising peer tutors. Length: 1-1/2 to 3 hours.
Guided Practice in Creative Solution Finding
Participants will become familiar with the barriers to creativity, strategies for enhancing creativity, and creative solution-finding formats that can be applied to solve individual or systems-level challenges. Length: 2 to 6 hours.
Accessing the General Education Curriculum
Participants will discover strategies for facilitating access to the core curriculum and examine access issues related to assessment, curriculum development and the process of learning. This seminar also draws from Restructuring for Caring and Effective Education. Length: 3 to 6 hours.
Student Empowerment
Participants will explore ways in which students can collaborate with adults to meet the needs of a heterogeneous student body. Topics include the student’s role in instruction (e.g., cooperative group learning, partner learning, and team teaching), student involvement in advocacy for self and others (e.g., peer advocates in IEP and transition planning meetings, peer mediators, peer buddy systems, and Circles of Friends), and student-centered decision making (e.g., having students set classroom and school rules, provide feedback to teachers and administrators, and join school committees such as the school board). This seminar also draws from Restructuring for Caring and Effective Education. Length 1-1/2 to 3 hours.
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