Overview of STEPS Professional Development Courses
STEPS Professional Development provides teachers, schools, and districts with a range of comprehensive and highly practical professional development courses based on award winning teacher resource books.
We offer Facilitator Courses and Teacher Courses. Facilitator Courses (on-site trainer) are specifically crafted to help participants take on the various roles of PRESENTER, SUPPORTER and USER.
 Six Benefits of Training a Facilitator for Your School
1. You are able to control the timing of the training and the implementation of the initiative.
2. You are able to select Facilitators who have local understandings of issues and challenges in your school/cluster.
3. It is the most cost effective way for your whole staff to access high quality professional learning.
4. Your teachers will benefit from spaced learning as your Facilitator presents sessions over time.
5. You have an in-house person to provide teachers with ongoing support as they need it.
6. Your Facilitators can shape the resource for your context and teachers
Mathematics (Grades K-9)
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First Steps in Mathematics
Helping teachers to identify and correct students’ misconceptions about mathematics.
Based on cutting-edge research, First Steps in Mathematics develops and expands teachers’ understanding of mathematics and how children learn mathematics. First Steps in Mathematics enables teachers to successfully diagnose, plan, implement, and evaluate their students’ learning experiences in four strands - Number, Measurement, Space, and Chance and Data. Diagnostic Tasks and Diagnostic Maps within each strand help teachers to identify students’ misconceptions about mathematics. Sample lessons and learning activities provide teachers with practical and simple ideas to support students’ development.
Learn more about First Steps in Mathematics
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Elementary Literacy (Grades K-5)
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First Steps 2nd Edition
Helping teachers address current challenges in reading, writing, speaking & listening and viewing.
First Steps 2nd Edition builds on the original First Steps by drawing upon contemporary research to help teachers address current challenges. It provides teachers with comprehensive Maps of Development that help them assess and monitor student needs and also provides explicit links to purposeful teaching and learning experiences. First Steps 2nd Edition includes detailed support material that will enhance learning and help teachers build effective teaching plans.
Learn more about First Steps 2nd Edition
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Secondary Literacy (Grades 6-12)
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STEPS Middle and High School Literacy
Helping students learn subject matter in all content areas through effective reading strategies.
STEPS Middle and High School Literacy provides content area teachers with a selection of powerful teaching ideas and tools that help secondary students build a repertoire of reading and learning strategies. Using these strategies students meet the reading demands and learn content in all courses. STEPS Middle and High School Literacy also explores the reading process, making it more tangible for content area teachers and their students.
Learn more about STEPS Middle and High School Literacy
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NEW COURSES for 2012!!
FRACTIONS - Available April
SPACE - Available June Take advantage of our Early Bird Booking Discount for all NEW courses booked by March 20, 2012.
For more information - contact us at info@stepspd.com.
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Video Spotlight
Response to Intervention (RtI - McKinney, TX)
First Steps and RtI
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Common Core Standards
Email us for a copy of the First Steps in Mathematics and Common Core Standards Linking Document for K-5.
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