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Onsite and online professional development workshops (these are interactive sessions; not passive “sit and get” sessions)

Our training focuses on:

Differentiation to meet the needs of all students

Differentiation involves responding to each student’s unique needs, helping them progress from their starting point, maintaining their motivation by tapping into their interests, and engaging them through their preferred learning styles. 

 

At Welda Consults, we offer training in differentiation by:

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  • Providing an understanding of the “mindset” of differentiating learning experiences

  • Differentiating the experience for our attendees

  • Introducing simple and incredibly effective ways to differentiate the content, process, and product pieces of instruction

  • Ideas for emphasizing the “process” component while decreasing the emphasis on the “product” component (which is especially important in the world of AI in education)

Behavior Management

Behavior management training from Welda Consults goes beyond the traditional rewards and punishments system.

Our training focuses on: 

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  • Building strong, positive relationships as the foundation for effective behavior management

  • Understanding and addressing diverse perspectives, enabling meaningful communication with students in a way that resonates with them, and

  • Providing strategies for working positively and collaboratively with students, supporting them throughout their learning journeys 

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Accelerating Learning

Welda Consults will Empower Your Staff to:

  • Introduce grade-level skills to all students during core instruction time (while still providing support for struggling students)

  • Identify essential skills

  • Provide just-in-time support

  • Facilitate the immediate application of skills by students

  • Teach skills using various modalities—auditory, visual, and kinesthetic

Creating and empowering Professional Learning Communities (PLCs)

Welda Consults helps teams “gel”. Common goals, working together collaboratively, solving problems together and not alone, and using relevant and current data to decide the next steps for student learning are some of the many things that we will work on with your staff and PLCs.

 

Welda Consults has unique approaches to provide educators with the following:

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  • See the value of working together as a team

  • Learn new problem-solving skills and approaches

  • Use relevant, current data to create next steps for student learning

  • Plan efficiently and effectively to improve student performance

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Teaching creativity and critical thinking skills

Welda Consults equips educators with a foundational understanding of essential creativity and critical thinking skills. This knowledge is immediately applied through an immersive workshop experience, allowing participants to practice and refine these skills in real time. As students—and all of us—are increasingly inundated with information, the ability to discern what is factual and useful has become more critical than ever. By fostering creativity and critical thinking, educators can better prepare students to navigate and thrive in this information-rich environment. 

 

Welda Consults provides experiences for educators to:

 

  • Learn creativity skills through using these skills

  • Practice the use of critical thinking skills in various scenarios

  • Transfer the teaching, learning, and applying of these skills to the classroom

  • Oh, and have fun while they learn!!

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Meeting and exceeding the standards in math and literacy

Standards for math and literacy are demanding of many skills. To help students meet and exceed these grade-level standards, teachers need to restate these goals in learner-centered terms and break down each standard into its essential skills. Then, educators need to work with students on these skills in as many real-world contexts as possible, so students see the application of these skills. 

 

With the Welda Consults team working from a place of deeply understanding the math and literacy standards at all grade levels, Welda Consults will empower educators to:

 

  • Improve their understanding and skills at teaching the crucial components of math and literacy in classrooms

  • Discover ideas for providing real-world experiences for their students

  • Break down the skills into “manageable chunks” for students to grasp and apply quickly

Formative assessment

Formative assessment is an essential tool for monitoring student progress and tailoring instruction to address their individual needs. There are numerous methods available for implementing formative assessments effectively.

 

Welda Consults will provide educators with an experience that helps to:

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  • Demonstrate and model a variety of formative assessment techniques 

  • Provide a plethora of examples of formative assessment at various grade levels 

  • Showcase straightforward data collection methods and efficient data analysis tools

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Introduction to Artificial Intelligence (AI)

The ever-changing world of technology demands that we help our students learn how to live and succeed through knowledge of and use of many different technological tools. Generative AI is growing and changing quickly. Welda Consults will provide up-to-date training to:

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  • Quickly familiarize staff with essential AI tools

  • Address key concerns surrounding AI use in schools, including privacy and academic integrity

  • Immerse staff in hands-on experiences with AI tools that enhance efficiency, effectiveness, and student engagement

Onsite, Online and Telephone Support

Available before, during, and after training empowers educators to: 

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  • Solidify the concepts learned

  • Effectively transfer new ideas and strategies into schools and classrooms

  • Access support during the implementation phase

  • Receive assistance in problem-solving as they experiment with new approaches

Online Courses

AI in Education provides:

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  • A self-paced experience to learn the key tenets of Artificial Intelligence

  • An opportunity to explore many AI tools that will enable educators to save time performing administrative tasks and better engage students 

  • Ideas for creating and implementing AI policies

 

Differentiation for Core Classrooms and “Tier 2” experiences:

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This self-paced course provides educators with:​

  • An understanding of the “mindset” of differentiating learning experiences

  • Simple and incredibly effective ways to differentiate the content, process, and product pieces of instruction

  • Ideas for emphasizing the “process” component while decreasing the emphasis on the “product” component (which is especially important in the world of AI in education)

  • Time to try out new techniques while being supported by knowledgeable instructors and fellow participants in the course

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[Both courses provide real-time learning segments to clarify learned information and share ideas, successes, and challenges.]

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