Iowa ASCD to Host 4th/5th Grade Teacher Conference

Are you looking for opportunities for your fourth- and fifth-grade teachers to see quality implementation of the Iowa Core? Are you wanting to impact the learning of your teachers and their students? Register your teachers now so they can learn from practitioners - other fourth- and fifth-grade teachers - and go home with ideas, tools, strategies, information, and networking opportunities. (And be sure to watch the tweets from @IowaASCD - lots of tips for fourth- and fifth-grade teachers of reading!) 

Iowa Teachers will provide learning opportunities around these 3 strands: 

• Teaching for Understanding – Curriculum Strand: What do all students need to learn, know and be able to do? How do we in our building/grade level connect our teaching with the students’ learning expectations identified around “the core”?  
• Assessment for Learning – Assessment Strand: How do we know that students have learned? How do we use assessments to assess and diagnose our students’ progress in learning? How do we adjust our instruction based on the results of the formative assessments to implement the Iowa Core?  
• Teaching for Learner Differences – Instruction Strand: How do we plan and deliver instruction so that we meet the needs of all learners in our classroom? How do we respond if students struggle or don’t learn and how do we respond when students have already learned?

Iowa ASCD and ISEA are sponsoring this conference: 

• Date: December 4, 2013; Registration is from 7:45-8:30. Starting at 8:30 .
• Location: Prairie Meadows Conference Center in Altoona, IA (just east of Des Moines)  
• Fee: $100 for members of Iowa ASCD or ISEA; $150 for non-members

Four ways to register: 

• Register on line with a credit card at https://www.regonline.com/builder/site/Default.aspx?EventID=1317768  
• Mail a check/purchase order with names of participants to Bridget A. Arrasmith, Room 123, Drake University School of Education, 3206 University, Des Moines, IA 50311  
• Email with attached purchased order with names of participants to Bridget A. Arrasmith at bridget.arrasmith@drake.edu.  
• FAX purchase order with names of participants to Bridget A. Arrasmith at 515.271.2233.

And - if you send four or more teachers to the conference, you attend the conference free.