PowerPoints can be viewed at www.teacherpayteacher.com   A project tailored to fit your needs, Beth Hammett, M.A., Assistant Professor of Writing at College of the Mainland, will let you custom design a program that will meet your needs! A current developmental educational specialist, certified through NADE and Kellogg Institute, as well as college English instructor, and former seventh grade teacher, Ms. Hammett has worked with at-risk, GT, and Pre-Ap students in a student led classroom. Her classroom management skills can provide teachers with a way to include all levels of students in projects that increase motivation and knowledge while decreasing behavioral classroom problems. Beth may be contacted at 713-870-4346. Email: mbhammett@aol.com. Ms. Hammett's certifications include: Developmental Education Specialist (NADE/Kellogg), Secondary English, Emotional Intelligence, and Peer Mediation. Beth's accolades include NCTE/CCCC PEP award, Townsend Press Developmental Essay winner 2007 and 2006, 2007 Advanced Kellogg, 6 Seconds Emotional Intelligence, 2006 COM Instructor of the Year Finalist, 2006 Teaching Excellence Award, 2006 Kellogg Institute/NADE, Texas President's Travel and Research Grant Recipient for 2006, former Co-Director of Greater Houston Area Writing Project (NWP), TMSA Region IV Teacher of the Year for 2004, Who's Who Among America's Teachers, and Dickinson ISD Secondary Teacher of the Year (2004) as well as Channel 2 Sunshine Award winner. Additional Presenter: Elementary level presenter Ms. Frase's accolades include National Board Certified teacher, Greater Houston Area Writing Project (NWP) consultant, TCTELA 2006 Teacher of the Year, Masters Reading Teacher, and Masters in Science and Reading with Reading Specialization. Choose a lesson plan according to skills needed and grade level: Educational and Corporate Presentations Emotional Intelligence--learn people soft skills to help you in any situation. This program is custom designed to help your employers and employees manage their decision making process. For further information view www.6seconds.com (endorsed by Daniel Goleman). College Level Presentations 1. Developmental Writing Workshop--get your college students involved in the writing process: peer workshopping, active learning strategies, and author showcasing. 2. Student Wellness Learning Community--setting up a learning committee that includes emotional intelligence strategies as well as mind, body, and soul improvements. 3. First Year Experience--struggling to set up a FYE initiative? What topics should you include? How do you train others? How one college has focused on building an FYE program as their Achieving the Dream initiative! Elementary and Secondary Workshops 1. From Storytelling to Writing: A hands-on art activity that has students symbolizing their oral histories. Students create a life map of their their lives then tell their stories to peers and use the writing process to complete their oral histories. Appropriate for grades 2 and up. 2. Comic Book Writing: What better way to involve ELL and at-risk students than to combine illustrations and words! A great hands- project using technology, symbolism, dialogue and the writing For Pre-Ap and GT, Kidspiration or wireless networking can be included. Beautiful published projects! Appropriate for grades 4 and up. 3. Peer Workshopping: Need a way to teach revising and editing to your students? Color coding is a visual tool that can be used in any grade level. Teaches students how to revise and edit papers while following scoring guides/rubrics. 4. Ekphrasis: Plato’s version of using artwork as a stepping stone to writing. An excellent visual tool combining written words, color strips, and on a pretty day an outdoor picture activity. Appropriate for grades 1 and up. 5. Publishing: A Question and Answer Series Introduce students to the world of a real writer, editor, and published author. How to get published, where to send work, what do writers really do and how the process works. Fun for all ages. Appropriate for grades 2 and up. 6. Let’s All Get the Blues! A poetry session combining music and writing. Want to get your students rocking and rolling? This activity will do it! Comes complete with author read-around. Appropiate grades 6 and up. 7. Fires in the Bathroom Based on Cushman’s book, a look at what students want from teachers and high school. Includes lesson plans for using the novel. 8. TAKS Writing A hands-on workshop to increase TAKS writing scores. Includes many tips, samples, and how-to. 9. Emotional Intelligence: A Look at Using EI in the Classroom What is EI, and how can it help students succeed?

Literature Circles Getting Started: • Students choose own reading materials • Small groups (3-6) • Group by text choices not ability/tracking • Groups create and meet on regular basis • Active reading: take notes • Students write own discussion questions • Teacher led mini-lessons open and close: Literature elements, cognitive strategies to help understand texts, social skills for small group discussions • Personal responses, connections, questions start the discussions • Group project to mark the end of book readings • Form new groups to begin again • Assessment is by teacher observation and student self-evaluation Reading Strategies: • Visualize—mental pictures as reading • Connect—to own life experiences • Question—wonder • Infer—predict, interpret, draw conclusions • Evaluate—make judgments, critique, relative importance • Analyze—authors’ crafts: text structure, language, style, theme, point of view • Recall—retell, summarize, remember important info • Self-monitor—adjust, troubleshoot, fix understanding What works? • Book talks by teacher before students choose texts • Student input about each book • Listing top 3-4 choices to read • Mixing up the groups • Having a schedule for reading • Working the Room • Good, thoughtful questions • Teaching literary elements through the texts

Learning styles: Website connection: http://www.ldpride.net/learningstyles.MI.htm What are learning styles? Learning styles are simply different approaches or ways of learning. What are the types of learning styles? Visual Learners: learn through seeing... . These learners need to see the teacher's body language and facial expression to fully understand the content of a lesson. They tend to prefer sitting at the front of the classroom to avoid visual obstructions (e.g. people's heads). They may think in pictures and learn best from visual displays including: diagrams, illustrated text books, overhead transparencies, videos, flipcharts and hand-outs. During a lecture or classroom discussion, visual learners often prefer to take detailed notes to absorb the information. Auditory Learners: learn through listening... They learn best through verbal lectures, discussions, talking things through and listening to what others have to say. Auditory learners interpret the underlying meanings of speech through listening to tone of voice, pitch, speed and other nuances. Written information may have little meaning until it is heard. These learners often benefit from reading text aloud and using a tape recorder. Tactile/Kinesthetic Learners: learn through , moving, doing and touching... Tactile/Kinesthetic persons learn best through a hands-on approach, actively exploring the physical world around them. They may find it hard to sit still for long periods and may become distracted by their need for activity and exploration. What are the types of Multiple Intelligence? Visual/Spatial Intelligence ability to perceive the visual. These learners tend to think in pictures and need to create vivid mental images to retain information. They enjoy looking at maps, charts, pictures, videos, and movies. Their skills include: puzzle building, reading, writing, understanding charts and graphs, a good sense of direction, sketching, painting, creating visual metaphors and analogies (perhaps through the visual arts), manipulating images, constructing, fixing, designing practical objects, interpreting visual images. Possible career interests: navigators, sculptors, visual artists, inventors, architects, interior designers, mechanics, engineers Verbal/Linguistic Intelligence ability to use words and language. These learners have highly developed auditory skills and are generally elegant speakers. They think in words rather than pictures. Their skills include: listening, speaking, writing, story telling, explaining, teaching, using humor, understanding the syntax and meaning of words, remembering information, convincing someone of their point of view, analyzing language usage. Possible career interests: Poet, journalist, writer, teacher, lawyer, politician, translator Logical/Mathematical Intelligence ability to use reason, logic and numbers. These learners think conceptually in logical and numerical patterns making connections between pieces of information. Always curious about the world around them, these learner ask lots of questions and like to do experiments. Their skills include: problem solving, classifying and categorizing information, working with abstract concepts to figure out the relationship of each to the other, handling long chains of reason to make local progressions, doing controlled experiments, questioning and wondering about natural events, performing complex mathematical calculations, working with geometric shapes Possible career paths: Scientists, engineers, computer programmers, researchers, accountants, mathematicians Bodily/Kinesthetic Intelligence ability to control body movements and handle objects skillfully. These learners express themselves through movement. They have a good sense of balance and eye-hand co-ordination. (e.g. ball play, balancing beams). Through interacting with the space around them, they are able to remember and process information. Their skills include: dancing, physical co-ordination, sports, hands on experimentation, using body language, crafts, acting, miming, using their hands to create or build, expressing emotions through the body Possible career paths: Athletes, physical education teachers, dancers, actors, firefighters, artisans Musical/Rhythmic Intelligence ability to produce and appreciate music. These musically inclined learners think in sounds, rhythms and patterns. They immediately respond to music either appreciating or criticizing what they hear. Many of these learners are extremely sensitive to environmental sounds (e.g. crickets, bells, dripping taps). Their skills include: singing, whistling, playing musical instruments, recognizing tonal patterns, composing music, remembering melodies, understanding the structure and rhythm of music Possible career paths: musician, disc jockey, singer, composer Interpersonal Intelligence ability to relate and understand others. These learners try to see things from other people's point of view in order to understand how they think and feel. They often have an uncanny ability to sense feelings, intentions and motivations. They are great organizers, although they sometimes resort to manipulation. Generally they try to maintain peace in group settings and encourage co-operation.They use both verbal (e.g. speaking) and non-verbal language (e.g. eye contact, body language) to open communication channels with others. Their skills include: seeing things from other perspectives (dual-perspective), listening, using empathy, understanding other people's moods and feelings, counseling, co-operating with groups, noticing people's moods, motivations and intentions, communicating both verbally and non-verbally, building trust, peaceful conflict resolution, establishing positive relations with other people. Possible Career Paths: Counselor, salesperson, politician, business person Intrapersonal Intelligence ability to self-reflect and be aware of one's inner state of being. These learners try to understand their inner feelings, dreams, relationships with others, and strengths and weaknesses. Their Skills include: Recognizing their own strengths and weaknesses, reflecting and analyzing themselves, awareness of their inner feelings, desires and dreams, evaluating their thinking patterns, reasoning with themselves, understanding their role in relationship to others Possible Career Paths: Researchers, theorists, philosophers