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Data Driven Instruction and Differentiation


Target Audience: Teachers (Primary and Secondary)
Course Leader: Kevin Simpson                           
Time: 9.00am – 3.00pm
Date: March 28 - 29, 2012
Venue: Holiday Inn Downtown, Shanghai, China


  
Course Leader
Kevin Simpson is from Flint, Michigan and has been in the education field since 1998.    In 2007 he started KDSL Know.Do. Serve.Learn. He partners with education organizations worldwide to increase student achievement, teacher knowledge, and education leadership. Simpson hastaught and consulted in parochial, public, and international schools located in Washington, D.C., Michigan, Virginia, Maryland, Laos, Qatar, Dubai, Lebanon, and Thailand. 

Simpson has also served as a countywide elementary social studies curriculum teacher, preschool to twelfth grade curriculum coordinator, school-based elementary math specialist, and Primary Years Programme (PYP) and Middle Years Programme (MYP) Math Leader and Teacher. He was a National Consultant with the U.S. Department of Education’s Teacher-to-Teacher Initiative which provided effective, research-based practices to educators across the country. 

Simpson specializes in school development, school improvement, teacher education, curriculum writing, and data-driven instruction. He believes that providing teachers with high quality, collaborative professional learning is essential to student achievement. For more information on Simpson please visit www.knowdoservelearn.org. 



Workshop Goal
Teachers will be able to access, analyze, and act on data in order to differentiate instruction


Workshop Objectives
  • Identify different types of formal and informal classroom assessments 
  • Use data to analyze student performance and develop instructional plans 
  • Modify current instructional practices to support student learning 
  • Identify different accommodations and modifications they can immediately implement to meet the needs of all learners 
  • Describe research-based strategies for differentiating instruction

Topcis Covered
  • Data types and purposes 
  • Curriculum Based Measurement 
  • Data Sources 
  • Planning from the Data 
  • Standards Based and Data Driven 
  • Unit Planning 
  • Differentiating with Data


Workshop Fee (per participant)
Regular: USD 600 (Course fee) + USD 100 (Meeting package)
*PD Alliance Member: USD 300 (Course fee) + USD 100 (Meeting package)

*PD Alliance Member:
* (The PD Alliance offers a cost sharing scheme where the regular course fee for one participant can be shared between two participants registering together from the same school/organization. Two participants are required to register together to access the PD Alliance rate. PD Alliance information and member form can be accessed at The PD Alliance)

Contact Information
Workshop Coordinator: Ms. Sonthaya Chutisacha 
E-mail: sonthaya.ch@gmail.com 
Phone (China): +86 755 339 443 65 
Phone (Thailand): +66 818 465 770

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