While students are enjoying the summer off, teachers from Churchville-Chili and other districts are learning and working to provide challenging educational experiences to all students in the upcoming 2015-16 school year.
Many teachers have participated in the professional development classes offered through the district this summer. Topics included Chromebook instruction, math and literacy intervention, understanding poverty in the classroom, dealing with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), introduction to Project Based Learning (PBL) and others. Most classes were held on site and lasted for a full day, several were also offered online.
Teacher-leaders helped develop the curriculum for their courses. Curriculum writing, which gives teachers direction on the learning goals students should achieve in their classes, along with procedures for assessments to evaluate success, is an ongoing process in school districts.
The task of rewriting curriculum for 54 classes was taken on by 116 teachers, who spent over 279 teacher hours on the projects.
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