Chicago ACTS offers professional development workshops through Strategies for Student Success (SSS) modules. This is a research-based program of the American Federation of Teachers that addresses teaching and learning aspects of the classroom for both new and veteran teachers. The goals of this program areto offer quality professional learning and to strengthen institutions for teaching and learning.
Professional Development
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Engaging Student Long-Term Memory
Saturday, February 22, 9 a.m. -12:30 p.m.
It must be uncomfortable for students to sit in a classroom and not understand anything. After teaching a good lesson, educators wonder why a majority of the class did not get it. Imagine being given directions for baking a cake, and in less than five minutes, being unable to recall those directions. Research explains that the information was not lodged in the long-term memory, and only temporarily in the working memory, and hence the speedy loss of information. In this session, we will focus on the development of cognitive structures, activities and conditions that secure information in the long-term memory.
Session Objectives:
Create favorable learning conditions
Identify brain-compatible activities
Maintain a healthy brain
Spring 2014: Upcoming Workshops
Saturday, February 22, 9 a.m. -12:30 p.m.
Engaging Student Long-Term Memory
March 22, 9:00am-12:30pm
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April 26, 12:00-3:30pm
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May 17, 12:00-3:30pm
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