Summer Academies

Summer Academies are conferences that teachers can attend that will enhance their professional development. The Summer Academies can last from one day to as long as a week. Most of them have different workshops in different states all throughout the summer. These workshops are also often times offered through colleges and universities all over the nation. Many programs are offered through buisness that specialize in proffessional development, such as the Landmark School Outreach Program. Often times, schools will send groups of teachers to workshops. The Summer Academy workshops have a large variety of topics that are covered in each class. Some of these include leadership skills, the five reading components, boosting test scores, cooperative learning, improving teacher quality, building the class of your dreams, and many more. The main topic we will focus on is enhancing your teaching with the use of technology.

Here are some summer academies coming soon- (Resources)

• educational technology workshop
• educational technology workshop II 

Quiz-yourself Question

• True/False - Summer academies just cover the core subjects such as math, science, english, etc.
• True/False- Teachers must attend workshops alone.
• True/False- Summer Academies enhance an educator's ability to teach.

Answers to Quiz:

1. False

2. False

3. True

Related Resources

• Professional Development Resource Blog
• Teacher professional enhancement blog
• Teachers and technology article

Developers of this page

Current group members: Kim, Alisha, and Rebekah (Fall '08)

All editors and writers: Rebekah (Fall '08)