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Workshops Carolyn does a
variety of stimulating and practical workshops. She
is well regarded in the educational community
both nationally and internationally. Read about
Carolyn's expertise, types of training and overseas
experience. Scroll
down the page to read about the workshops that
Carolyn offers. Carolyn custom
designs keynotes, workshops and other training
activities based on your specific needs and your
requests. For more information about
scheduling Carolyn to come to your school, school
district, group or region anywhere in the world,
click
here to
e-mail her. To
find out more about Carolyn's online courses, click
on this link: www.kdsi.org/carolyncoil International
Experience:
Expertise
in: Types
of Training Provided: Carolyn
working with a group of Teachers in Texas
Carolyn
working at the EARCOS workshop in Uijeongbu City,
Korea Carolyn will
design a keynote specifically for your event, or
you can choose one of the descriptions
below. Are
You a Thermometer or a
Thermostat? A thermometer is an
instrument that can accurately measure what is. It
gives us the facts. A thermostat, on the other
hand, can change the temperature. It doesn't just
tell us what is; it has the ability to change the
status quo into something better. In this keynote,
Carolyn compares thermometers and thermostats to
the attitudes and actions we may have as educators.
This keynote will inspire you to live your life as
a thermostat rather than as a thermometer! Educational
Leadership in a Time of Change Our world has
become a global village, and this has immense
implications for educators! Like the explorers of
long ago, we are forging into new territory as we
lead students into the 21st century. In this
motivational keynote, Carolyn helps us to see our
dreams, set our visions and communicate clearly.
She then points us, our students, and our
colleagues in the direction where we might journey
together. Encouraging
Achievement So many of the mind
sets common to 21st century life discourage rather
than encourage achievement. How can we reverse this
and be the encouragers, the nurturers and the
promoters of student achievement? In this keynote
filled with both enthusiasm and practicality, we
will consider ways to encourage all of our students
to be passionate about learning, persist and grow
through times of failure and discouragement, and
take responsibility for their own work. Sparking
Your 'Sparkle' Throughout the School
Year How can we spark
our own enthusiasm? What are the keys to
self-motivation? How do we encourage others? In
this upbeat keynote, Carolyn answers these
questions as she talks about developing and
maintaining our 'SPARKLE' &endash; Strengths,
Participation, Attitude, Recognition, Kindness,
Laughter, Enthusiasm and Energy. Differentiating
Instruction Using the Common Core
Standards The Common Core
Standards are based on the most effective standards
from states throughout the country and from other
countries around the world. They provide guidelines
about what students should know and be able to do
as a result of their schooling. Clear and
understandable, they include rigorous content and
application of knowledge through high-order
thinking skills. In this workshop, you will learn
how to incorporate these standards into your
curriculum using a number of practical,
user-friendly differentiation strategies. You will
leave this workshop with many realistic and doable
teaching ideas that you can use right away!
Using
the Common Core Standards with Gifted
Students The Common Core
Standards are based on the most effective state
standards and on standards from other countries
around the world. A big advantage in using them
with gifted students is that they are broader in
application, incorporate evaluative thinking and
research skills, and can lead to higher level
thinking, rigorous work and problem solving. In
this session, see a variety of practical
differentiated activities with corresponding
assessments that use the Common Core Standards,
extend learning, and are appropriate for gifted
kids. Using
the Common Core Standards with Diverse
Learners In this interactive
workshop, we will consider and reflect upon the
needs of Special Education students, English
Language Learners and Gifted and Talented students
as the Common Core Standards are implemented in
schools and school districts nationwide. Examine
connections between Differentiation, RTI and the
Common Core Standards. Discover practical
strategies, interventions, policies and
organizational structures that can be used by
school districts, schools and teachers to implement
these standards while continuing to meet individual
student needs. Informational
Texts and the Common Core
Standards One major
characteristic of the Common Core Standards is that
they emphasize analysis, reflection and research
based on informational texts. In an age where
anything and everything can be put on the Internet
with no screening, editing or outside evaluation
and review, teaching our students how to read, use,
assess and evaluate informational texts is
essential. In this workshop we will identify many
of the Common Core Standards that focus on
informational texts. See how to meet these
standards by using differentiated activities and
assessments in many subject areas and correlating
them to the appropriate standards. Differentiated
STEM Activities and Assessments Using the Common
Core Standards This workshop
focuses on the “how-to” of
differentiation. Participants will examine a number
of Common Core Standards and learn how incorporate
them into a variety of practical differentiated
STEM activities with their corresponding
assessments. Strategies include: … Curriculum
compacting … Tiered lessons/units … Learning
preferences … Individual Lesson Plan™ format …
Tic-Tac-Toe learning activities … Assessments using
mini-rubrics and criteria cards …
Questivities™ (Higher level questions)
Participants will leave this workshop with many
realistic and doable teaching ideas and examples
focusing on Science, Technology, Engineering and
Math that can be used right away! RTI
and Differentiated Instruction: How They Work
Together What should
teachers do to meet the needs of all students from
those who struggle academically or behaviorally to
our gifted and talented students? How do we know
when interventions are working and when they are
not? The RTI approach uses research-based
interventions and monitors each student’s
progress toward success. Differentiation is a way
to design curriculum and instruction to meet the
needs of each student. These two concepts are a
natural pairing in helping teachers meet individual
student needs. In this workshop,
learn how to implement a number of practical
differentiation strategies. Find ways to
accommodate different learning styles and
modalities. Understand how to use pre-assessments
to determine individual student strengths and
weaknesses and formative assessments to assess and
monitor the effect of each strategy on individual
students. You will learn how to use the Coil RTI
Progress Monitoring Form™ and will leave this
workshop with many strategies and interventions you
can use immediately. Motivating
All Students: Strategies to Use with the RTI
Approach What strategies and
interventions can regular classroom teachers use to
help students be successful in school? Some
students need interventions to deal with specific
academic skill deficits. Others need help with
motivation, organizational skills, study skills or
appropriate classroom behavior. Gifted students as
well as struggling students may need help in
becoming motivated for success in school.
In this interactive
workshop, explore numerous achievement strategies
and interventions. Learn how to identify student
needs through the use of pre-assessment and
formative assessment. Find out how to successfully
implement many interventions and strategies. See
how to monitor student progress using various
versions of the Coil RTI Progress Monitoring
Form™ - a graphic organizer that helps show
problem areas for an individual student, the
interventions tried, and ways to measure student
progress. You will leave this
workshop with many tools to help your students
succeed in school! Excellent resource
for your in-house differentiation training. Help
teachers implement successful, high-quality
differentiation practices using Coil's practical,
ready-to-use PowerPoint and slide/book correlated
Guidebook in conjunction with her book Successful
Teaching in the Differentiated Classroom. Divide
the presentation into several sessions or present
as a full-day or half-day training session. Over
190 slides accompany the differentiation topics:
curriculum compacting, learning preferences and
profiles, differentiated assessment, special
groups, flexible grouping, independent learning,
formats for lessons and units, and other
differentiation strategies. Call for quantity
discounts for participants for accompanying book
Successful Teaching in the Differentiated
Classroom. Write It...
Remember It... Reproducible Participant Handout
Packets include reduced reproductions of each of
the slides with room for note taking and
comment. This two or three
day workshop is designed for school
leaders--administrators, coordinators, and
teachers: The workshop
includes: Through interactive
discussion, the focus is on classroom
implementation of those strategies and how to
instruct teachers to incorporate the strategies
into their classrooms. During the final
day, participants will develop a Plan of Action for
their own in-house training. Based on
Carolyn's best selling book: Successful
Teaching in the Differentiated
Classroom.
Solving
the Assessment Puzzle How and why we
assess students are the essential questions of this
workshop. We will look at how to develop and use
types of performance and authentic assessments,
especially when differentiating classroom
instruction. Included is how to
link standards to curriculum units, how to develop
assessment criteria for specific products and
performances, how and when to create complex
rubrics, how and when to use product criteria cards
and the use of student logs, rating scales,
checklists, portfolios, student self assessments
and group assessment procedures. Challenging
the "Hidden" Gifted
Underachiever Many gifted
students slide by in school, getting reasonably
good grades and scoring well on standardized tests,
but put forth little or no effort. Following
a different pattern of underachievement than the
one traditionally recognized, these students could
be called "hidden" underachievers. In this session (or
keynote) we will look at reasons for this type of
underachievement and examine ways to guide such
students to embrace academic challenges and choose
demanding learning activities instead of the
easiest ones. We will discuss how to
encourage them to persist through times of
disappointment or failure, how to learn from their
mistakes and how to take responsibility for and
find joy in their own learning. Creative
Learning Strategies for the Standards-Based
Classroom Recent research
shows that today’s students are less creative
than those of earlier generations. Yet one of the
most important 21st century skills is knowing how
to think creatively. This interactive workshop
gives teachers the opportunity to learn the basic
principles of both creative and critical thinking,
and shows ways to teach and use these skills
in a standards-based classroom. Strategies
incorporate the higher levels of Bloom’s
Taxonomy and include brainstorming, active
questions, SCAMPER, Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy,
the Multiple Talents Model, Questivities™ and
more. Developing
Critical and Creative Thinking
Skills This workshop gives
teachers the opportunity to learn the basic
principles of both creative and critical thinking,
and shows ways to teach these skills in a
standards-based classroom. Thinking skills in all
levels of Bloom's Taxonomy are considered and
workshop participants are active participants in
learning how to incorporate higher-level
questioning into their classroom
activities. Questivities, a new way to
encourage and teach research skills, higher
level thinking and active questioning using a
variety of learning styles and multiple
intelligences, are introduced in this exciting
and motivational workshop. Differentiating
Curriculum for AP and Pre-AP
Students The Advanced
Placement Program provides rigorous curricular
guidelines with a reliable common assessment for
all students. Students of differing
abilities, learning styles and modalities, study
habits, etc. are likely to be enrolled in AP and
Pre-AP courses. Differentiated curriculum
will help students attain this national standard
for excellence. Lots of practical strategies
and planning formats that can be used right
away! Differentiating
Curriculum for Middle School
Students Differentiation
works best when students are motivated to learn,
have good time management, study and organizational
skills, and know how to work productively both
independently and in various types of small groups.
Most middle school students, regardless of ability
or readiness level, need structure and guidance in
learning how to do these things. In this workshop,
we will discuss ways to develop these skills,
consider how to best manage classroom organization
and flexible grouping and see sample planning
formats for differentiated units of
work. Differentiating
Curriculum in the Multi-Ability
Classroom How can teachers
meet the needs of all their students when these
needs and ability levels are so diverse? This
workshop focuses on practical strategies showing
teachers the "how-to" of differentiation.
Strategies include flexible grouping, tiered
lessons and units, curriculum compacting,
independent study, learning centers, learning
contracts, ways to give students choices of
learning activities, classroom management
strategies in a differentiated classroom and
more. Differentiating
for Gifted Students in the Regular
Classroom Similar to the
workshop described above including many of the same
strategies, but with an emphasis on meeting the
needs of gifted and high ability students.
Teachers will learn how to assess and document what
their students already know, how to plan for and
monitor challenging alternate activities, and how
to design and implement learning activities that
promote higher level thinking. Differentiating
Instruction Using the Common Core
Standards The Common Core
Standards are based on the most effective standards
from states throughout the country and from other
countries around the world. They provide guidelines
about what students should know and be able to do
as a result of their schooling. Clear and
understandable, they include rigorous content and
application of knowledge through high-order
thinking skills. In this workshop, you will learn
how to incorporate these standards into your
curriculum using a number of practical,
user-friendly differentiation strategies. You will
leave this workshop with many realistic and doable
teaching ideas that you can use right away!
Differentiation
for LEP (Limited English Proficient)
Students LEP (or
ESL) students need different approaches to
learning due to their cultural backgrounds
and/or level of language acquisition. We'll look at
cultural differences and discuss
of several basic principles of second language
development. These provide us with
guidelines that can be used as a basis for
differentiation. In this workshop, you will learn
30 practical strategies for working with these
students in a regular classroom setting and will
receive a copy of Carolyn's
teacher-friendly "Push-In Unit Planner"
to help you plan differentiated units
for LEP/ESL students. Differentiating
Instruction in American History In
this practical and interactive workshop/workshop
series, participants will explore
differentiation strategies that work
to engage all students as they learn more
about American history and government. Rich
in both content and innovative strategies, it will
help teachers instruct their students more
effectively, thereby increasing their understanding
of and appreciation for our nation and our
democracy. Will
be custom-designed to meet the individual needs of
a school or district, including number of days,
grade levels and specific content
or standards. Encouraging
Achievement: Challenge, Responsibility and
Persistence How can we
encourage students to embrace academic challenges
and choose demanding learning activities instead of
the easiest ones? How do we encourage them to
persist through times of stress, disappointment or
failure and take responsibility for their own
learning? How do we teach students to plan long
range assignments and independent study so that
they make the best use of their time? How do we
encourage discouraged students? Find some answers
to these and other similar questions in this
workshop. 'Giftedness':
What It Is -What It Isn't: In this workshop
Carolyn gives a broad overview of giftedness,
including myths about gifted students.
Identification, service delivery models, scheduling
and logistics, appropriate curriculum, grouping
patterns and strategies, and ways to work with
parents are discussed. Provides excellent overview
for administrators and/or general education
teachers. Motivating
Underachievers Frustrated by
students who have potential to achieve but somehow
do not? This workshop focuses on these
students...our underachievers. We will examine the
causes of underachievement, and explore numerous
practical strategies that can be used by teachers,
counselors, and parents to help and encourage
underachieving students. Suggested strategies are
practical and can be implemented in any school
setting. Seven
Steps to Successful Student Achievement
(3-12) Discover seven
steps that will lead your students to higher
achievement: … Standards-Based
Activities and Assessments for the Differentiated
Classroom Today's classrooms
focus on the standards. Mastering them is the goal
for all students. How does this goal fit with the
philosophy and implementation
of differentiation? In this workshop, examine
three approaches to differentiation that can
be used with your standards. Learn how to
develop both the differentiated activities and
the corresponding assessments, including
appropriate extensions that challenge gifted and
high ability students. Strategies
for Closing the Achievement Gap Every educator
faces the challenge of raising achievement for all
students. The "achievement gap" refers to the
disparity in academic performance between
sub-groups of students, particularly low income and
minority students. This workshop focuses on a
variety of research-based strategies that can be
used in schools to help raise student achievement.
In this practical and interactive workshop, you
will learn a variety of proven strategies to help
students: Teaching
Tools for the 21st Century This session
provides practical, concrete methods for
individualizing lessons and units which meet the
needs of all students, and gives specific
teaching strategies and techniques which can be
used with a variety of learning styles and ability
levels. Includes opportunities for student choices,
multiple intelligences, learning modalities,
Bloom's taxonomy, use of new technologies and
alternative assessment strategies. Teachers
attending this workshop will develop lesson plans
which they will be able to use in their
classrooms. Using
Learning Styles and Multiple Intelligences in the
Differentiated Classroom (K-12) How do we meet the
needs of the many different types of learners in
today's classrooms? In this workshop we will review
learning styles, learning modalities, and multiple
intelligences and learn practical strategies for
meeting individual student needs. Learn how to
create individualized lesson plans and units you
can take back to your classroom and use
immediately! Each of these
can be presented in 1-1.5
hours. Challenging
the "Hidden" Gifted
Underachiever Many gifted
students slide by in school, getting good grades
while putting forth little effort. These students
can be called "hidden underachievers". In this
session, we will examine ways to persuade such
students to embrace academic challenges and choose
demanding learning activities instead of the
easiest ones. Learn ways to encourage them to
persist through times of failure and take
responsibility for their own learning. Creativity
x 2 This interactive
session introduces two easy-to-use formats,
Questivities™ and Encounter Lessons,
appropriate for enhancing creativity for gifted
students. Each provides ways for students to use
their imaginations by considering and then
answering a series of divergent thinking questions.
These questions stimulate 'outside-the-box'
thinking, give practice in both research skills and
storytelling, and provide a springboard for
students to develop creative project activities. In
this session participants will see examples of each
format and will actively participate in two
demonstration lessons, one for each
format. Criteria
Cards: Tools for Formative and Summative
Assessment Learn how to
develop criteria cards that can be used for student
self-assessment, peer assessment and teacher
grading. Criteria cards are generic assessment
tools that can be used multiple times as students
work on similar products or master a learning
process. Used as formative assessments, they
encourage students to be more responsible learners.
As summative assessments, they make the grading of
differentiated projects and performances quick,
easy and accurate. Differentiating
AP and Pre-AP Curriculum AP and Pre-AP
classes are popular programming options for Gifted
and Talented students at the secondary level. At
the same time, in many schools all students are
encouraged to take these classes. Therefore it is
likely that these classes will have students with a
range of ability levels. In this session we will
look at practical strategies for challenging gifted
students while helping all students to be
successful in these classes. Differentiating
Curriculum in the Mixed Ability
Classroom In this session we
will discuss a number of practical, user-friendly
strategies that teachers can implement in their
classrooms immediately. These include flexible
grouping, curriculum compacting, resident experts,
tiered lessons and Carolyn's Individual Lesson Plan
(ILP™) format. You will leave this session
with examples of differentiated lessons and an
understanding of how to organize and manage a
differentiated classroom. Flexible
Grouping: It's More Than Just Moving Their
Seats! Flexible grouping
for the delivery of instruction is the cornerstone
of differentiation. When implemented well, it leads
to success for every student. While this sounds
good in theory, how is it actually implemented in
real classrooms? In this practical session, we will
discuss 13 Guidelines for Managing Flexible Groups,
advantages and disadvantages of various grouping
patterns, and the logistics and management of group
work. You will come away with ideas and strategies
you can use in your classroom
immediately. Giftedness:
What It Is, What It Isn't In this session,
Carolyn gives a broad overview of giftedness,
including myths about gifted students and the
relationship (or lack thereof) between giftedness
and high achievement in school. Identification,
definitions of giftedness, grouping patterns and
delivery models are discussed. Provides an
excellent overview for those new to gifted
education. "If
It's on the Internet, It Has to Be
True!" What a
statement… yet this is what many kids believe
in this age of information explosion. In this
session we will look at ways to teach students how
to become savvy information consumers as they look
at various print and Internet resources. To
accomplish this, we must structure our schools and
classrooms to target skills in critical thinking
and independent learning. This session focuses on
practical strategies to build these skills and help
students develop the ability to understand,
evaluate and integrate information from a wide
variety of sources Planning
for Successful Schoolwide
Differentiation How can we change
schools so that differentiation is an approach used
by teachers every day? There is no quick fix! In
this session, Carolyn will discuss a long-term
approach with several important components: RTI
and Differentiated Instruction: How They Work
Together Learn how to
incorporate practical differentiation strategies
into your RTI Action Plan. Find ways to accommodate
different learning styles and modalities.
Understand how to use pre-assessments to determine
individual student strengths and weaknesses.
Discover the benefits of formative assessments to
assess and monitor the effect of each strategy on
individual achievement. You will leave this session
with strategies, interventions and easy-to-use
Progress Monitoring Forms you can use
immediately. Successful
Teaching in the Differentiated
Classroom In this
presentation, we will discuss a number of practical
strategies to use when differentiating curriculum.
Emphasized are strategies that challenge students,
focusing on developing higher level thinking
skills. Strategies include curriculum compacting,
learning contracts, resident expert, anchoring
activities, and Tic-Tac-Toe. Each of these
strategies can be implemented in any classroom
setting. Top
Ten Parent Questions Parents of gifted
students have a wide range of questions
encompassing the academic, social and emotional
needs of their children. Other questions focus on
the concept of giftedness, cultural diversity, the
use of new technologies and the proper relationship
between home and school. In this session, you will
hear both the questions and the answers to the "Top
Ten". This workshop can be designed for parents,
for teachers or for both groups. Using
'Questivities' to Develop Creative
Thinking This session
introduces 'Questivities', an easy-to-use format
that encourages creativity in the differentiated
classroom. It provides a way for students to
brainstorm answers to creative thinking questions
before beginning a project or research activity.
These questions stimulate 'outside the box'
thinking, give practice in research skills and
extend any project activity. In this session, you
will see examples of the Questivities format,
participate in brainstorming answers to sample
Questivities Thinking Questions, and discuss
applications of this strategy for your own
classroom. Using
the RTI Approach with Gifted
Underachievers What can be done to
help gifted underachievers when they lack
motivation, struggle academically or display
behaviors not conducive to high achievement in
school? The Response to Intervention (RTI) approach
identifies the needs of each underachieving student
and links those needs to specific strategies and
interventions that can lead to success. In this
session, learn how to identify student needs,
become familiar with many practical strategies and
interventions and find out how to implement these
strategies and monitor each student's steps to
success. What
to Do for Stressed-Out Kids: Dealing with Stress
and Perfectionism This presentation
focuses on stressors faced by children and some of
the things parents and teachers can do to help
alleviate them. Carolyn discusses the causes of
stress in modern society, with an emphasis on those
factors which most affect children such as
perfectionism, the fear of making mistakes, our
hurried lifestyles and too many activities. We'll
look at a number of practical ideas and strategies
we can use to deal with stress in children and help
them live more relaxed and less stressful
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