Training Workshop
Information Services runs various trainings throughout the year, both at the IU and at district in-services.
Check back periodically as this page is continuously being updated. We currently are scheduling teacher trainings in the following, both online and face-to-face:
- Core Teaching Skills - The Core Teaching Skills program has been designed to provide a framework for to assist Pennsylvania teachers to design standards-based, technology-rich learning experiences for students. The goal of this program is to position teachers to use technology effectively in their classroom program, incorporating the established National Educational Technology Standards into lessons designed to meet PA Academic Standards.
- i-SAFE - i-SAFE Inc. is the worldwide leader in the Internet safety education. Founded in 1998 and endorsed by the U.S. Congress, i-SAFE is a non-profit foundation dedicated to protecting the online experiences of youth everywhere. i-SAFE incorporates classroom curriculum with dynamic community outreach to empower students, teachers, parents, law enforcement, and concerned adults to make the Internet a safer place. Please join us today in the fight to safeguard our children's online experience.
- Internet 2, CAPE and MAGPI - IU1 teachers have access to Internet2. CAPE and MAGPI are both partners with IU1 to provide distance-learning activities to students within our schools.
- Thinkfinity - Thinkfinity: Internet Content for the Classroom features seven content Web sites with lesson plans, student interactive content, downloadable worksheets, links to panel-reviewed Web sites and additional resources created by the nation's leading education organizations
- Nettrekker, d.i. - The award-winning search engine for schools, supports differentiated instruction with standards-based online resources, organized by readability level to help every child achieve. Access to this resource is funded by the Pennsylvania Department of Education.
- unitedstreaming (Discovery Education) - Discovery Education’s unitedstreaming is a digital video-based learning resource. With unitedstreaming, educators gain on-demand access to 50,000 content-specific segments from 5,000 full-length educational videos.
For more information, please contact Stevie Kline at 724-938-3241.
