Arthur Firestone Associates would be pleased to consult with you regarding organizational challenges you are facing, provide leader and teacher coaching, facilitate school dialogue, decision-making, or planning, and provide professional development workshops and workshop series for members of your school staff. Among the topics that might be addressed in consultations, workshops, or seminars are:
LEADERSHIP
▪Instructional Leadership to Improve Student Learning
▪The Observation and Evaluation of Teachers
▪Coaching to Improve Instruction
▪Overcoming Resistance to Change: Motivating Reluctant Staff
▪Teacher Leadership: Changing the Culture of Schools
▪Creating a Supervisory Model to Improve Leadership
▪Data-Driven Decision Making and Planning for the School and district
CLASSROOM PLANNING AND PRACTICE
▪Creating an Instructional Model to Guide Classroom Practice
▪Curriculum Design
▪Instructional Design and Teaching for Extended Periods
▪Reflective Practice in the Classroom: Outcome-Based Planning
▪Data-Driven Decision Making and Planning
▪Diagnostic Classroom Assessments
▪Cooperative Learning: Building Student Enthusiasm
▪Mediating Student Cognitive Processing
▪Differentiating Instruction to Reach Every Child
▪Graphic Organizers and Concept Maps to Guide and Extend Learning
▪Instructional Design to Promote Deep Student Learning
▪Promoting Critical and Creative Thinking through Powerful Questions
▪Data-Driven Decision Making and Planning for the Classroom
▪Socratic Seminars and Philosophic Chairs: Firing up Student Dialogue
▪Integrating the Curriculum: Connections that Make Sense to Students
▪Engaging Multiple Intelligences = Engaging Student Learners
▪Teachers Helping Teachers: Peer Coaching
▪Improving Student Test-Taking Skills and Scores
▪Research-Based Instructional Strategies for Long-Term Learning
▪Teaching in the Middle School
ORGANIZATION, PLANNING, AND STRUCTURE
▪Building Professional Communities: Teams and Teamwork
▪Creative Scheduling to Enable Effective Instruction
▪Applying Strategic Thinking and Planning in the School and District
▪Transitioning to a Middle School
We can also help your organization with the facilitation of a Long-Range Planning process, the revision of formal Observation and Evaluation policies and practices, school and district audits, or any other classroom, school, or district challenge. Please contact me at arthur.firestone@gmail.com for more information.
Arthur Firestone