Francis Polytechnic Senior High

Resources for Talent Development High School

If you have questions or need support, contact Tara Madden - tmadden@csos.jhu.edu or Guy Lucas - glucas@csos.jhu.edu

Classroom Management - Techniques and guidelines for establishing effective classroom management. Includes a checklist to continually assess classroom management.
Cooperative Learning - History and of cooperative learning - Rational for using cooperative learning. Practicing various cooperative learning strategies.
Teaching in the Extended Block - Structure for using the 90 minute block. Sample strategies for use in the 90 minute block.
A Checklist for Teaching and Learning in the Talent Development High School - Self assessment for classroom management and cooperative learning.
Gallery Walk Handout
Task Card Handout

Clarifying roles, responsibilities and support - Discussion of the roles and responsibilities of an academy coordinator, co-coordinator, teachers on the team, and generating ideas of how administrators can best support your work
Effective meeting practices - How to facilitate effective meetings; how to organize your meetings, how to keep meetings from becoming gripe sessions, collaborating to develop agendas for your up-coming meetings

Building and Sustaining teams - Guidelines and steps to team building, sample activities on team building, guidelines and suggestions on how to sustain your teams, teaming assessment tools and practices

Interdisciplinary Planning - Guidelines & steps for planning an interdisciplinary event, lesson, project, or a unit will be shared. Brainstorm some possible interdisciplinary topics, hooks and culminating activities to share with your team.

Using Data to Drive Decisions - What types of data do teams use to drive decisions? How do teams collect data? How do teams use data to drive decisions? Who collects, shares, interrupts data on a team?

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