United Federation of Teachers -> Professional Resources

Forum		English Language Arts The UFT Teacher Center offers members of the school community many opportunities to gain the knowledge and skills to support literacy in English language arts and the content areas. The Teacher Center promotes research-based best practices in literacy and English language arts initiatives. Educators citywide are provided support through conferences and forums, credit-bearing graduate courses, in-service courses, citywide and borough networks and summer institutes. Additionally, Teacher Center offers literacy-based and English language arts content-based professional development activities for the school community through paraprofessional support, parent workshops, and UFT Teacher Center site-based support.
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Last Post Info	Apr 29 2009, 11:38 AM In: Institute of Education Science... By: Kate
Forum		English Language Learners The UFT Teacher Center provides members of the school community and educators of English language learners support through borough professional development opportunities, which include networks and Teacher Center site-based support. In addition, our English Language Learners conferences are designed to offer all educators,(K-12 including monolingual and ESL/bilingual) an opportunity to learn strategies that support and scaffold listening, speaking, reading and writing, as well as content knowledge. This series of conferences are aligned with the latest research on English Language Learners and second language literacy development, as well as the New York State Learning Standards. Each conference relates current research connected to the conference topic to the design of model lessons with featured strategies for the various grade-bands (K-2, 3-5, 6-8, 9-12). Participants have opportunities to deepen their knowledge and share best practices in differentiating instruction for the wide variety of ELLs in their classrooms, including Students With Interrupted Formal Education, gifted and long-term ELLs.
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Last Post Info	May 21 2010, 01:03 PM In: Centering on...English Languag... By: Jeannette
Forum		Instructional Technology The UFT Teacher Center offers a variety of professional development opportunities for educators of all grade levels and content areas to gain knowledge and skills to support the implementation of technology as an integrated tool that effectively enhances teaching and learning. Through citywide networks, borough networks, summer institutes, and UFT Teacher Center site-based support, school community members are provided with opportunities to learn about the instructional use of technology in classroom practice that aids in the development of 21st- Century skills for educators and students while meeting the New York State Learning Standards and Performance Indicators. Working with partners such as the Intel Foundation, New York Institute of Technology and the Verizon Foundation’s Thinkfinity.org, Teacher Center is dedicated to providing professional development to support teachers to know how, when, and where to integrate technology into instruction.
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Last Post Info	Apr 7 2009, 09:35 AM In: Internet4Classrooms By: school_master
Forum		Mathematics The UFT Teacher Center offers a variety of professional development activities that address areas of interest and importance for K–12 mathematics educators. These activities include summer institutes, borough-wide networks, and UFT Teacher Center site-based support. Additionally, annual citywide institutes and networks are provided. These series are aligned to the content and process strands of the New York State Core Curriculum in Mathematics. Instructional and classroom management strategies are modeled to help educators engage students, differentiate instruction and develop strategies that support problem solving and communication in mathematics.
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Last Post Info	Oct 29 2010, 10:49 AM In: Developing Effective Fractions... By: Crystal
Forum		Science The UFT Teacher Center provides opportunities for teachers and paraprofessionals to deepen their understanding of the science content in the New York State Science Core Curriculum. With the educational support of annual seminars, teachers learn to develop unit plans that correspond to the K–8 New York City Science Scope and Sequence, as well as the Core Curriculum, Grades 9–12. Teachers also learn instructional strategies for incorporating literacy and math into hands-on science lessons and units. Additionally, The UFT Teacher Center collaborates with New York Hall of Science to provide professional development opportunities and educational practices to assist teachers and ensure that the science needs of all students can be met.
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Last Post Info	Apr 7 2009, 10:44 AM In: The National Science Teachers ... By: school_master
Forum		Social Studies The UFT Teacher Center provides to members of the school community a variety of opportunities and resources to insure that students gain the necessary social studies concepts, information and skills to become active, informed citizens able to contribute to the productive evolution of our local, national and global communities. Through focused work sessions, graduate courses, and sample units and lessons, Teacher Center staff specializing in social studies offer instructional methods and useful resources to educators who want to refine their skills and acquire research-based approaches to effective teaching and learning in United States history, global history, geography, economics and civics education.
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Last Post Info	Apr 7 2009, 10:02 AM In: The History Channel By: school_master
Forum		Special Needs Learners The UFT Teacher Center supports educators of learners with special needs through borough professional development opportunities, including summer institutes and Teacher Center site-based support. Additionally, each year UFT Teacher Center citywide special education seminars provide educators who teach students with disabilities in both self-contained and general education classrooms with opportunities to learn about the nature and needs of their students. Each seminar provides participants with an in-depth look at one aspect of learning disabilities and an understanding of the impact on student learning, behavior and social skills. Participants learn and practice instructional strategies that are designed to support the specific needs of their students.
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Last Post Info	Apr 7 2009, 09:49 AM In: The National Dissemination Cen... By: school_master
Forum		Other New York State, along with 50 other states, territories, and the District of Columbia, has joined the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) and the National Governors Center for Best Practices (NGA) in the development of Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts and Mathematics. Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts and Literacy in History/Social Studies & Science and survey (Deadline March 30, 2010) are available at: Common Core State Standards http://www.emsc.nysed.gov/ciai/common_core_standards/toolkit.html Survey http://www.forms2.nysed.gov/emsc/ocis/ccssela.cfm Below are links to more resources available at the UFT Teacher Center.
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Last Post Info	Feb 16 2011, 04:00 PM In: SAS Curriculum Pathways By: Crystal
Forum		Special Opportunities Below are resources that may further inform educators:
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Last Post Info	Feb 16 2011, 04:21 PM In: National Board for Professiona... By: Crystal
Forum		Publications Below are resources that may further inform educators:
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Last Post Info	Jun 24 2010, 06:51 AM In: Centering on . . . Adolescent... By: Jeannette
Forum		Literacy Below are education topics on Literacy from the UFT Teacher Center.
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Last Post Info	Dec 15 2008, 07:49 PM In: Institute of Education Science... By: carolyn