Professional Learning for Teacher Candidates
http://education.ucf.edu/happyhour
SPRING 2015 HAPPY HOUR WORKSHOP SCHEDULE
Unless otherwise specified, all workshops require no registration. Simply show up, have a good time, and learn.
If you have any questions, please contact Dr. Karen Verkler, HAPPY Hour Chair, at [email protected].
*Audience Level refers to Early Childhood Education, Elementary Education, Secondary Education, All
Go to “Current Workshop Information” link on the HAPPY Hour website for more detailed information on each workshop.
Month
Topic
Presenter(s)
Date and Time
Location
Audience
Level*
January
2015
Presenting Your Presentation – Workshop
specifically for the Showcase student
presenters
HAPPY Hour Committee
Wednesday, January 21, 2015,
4:30-5:30 p.m. (Tech Tutorial will
follow at 5:30 p.m.)
TA130
Showcase
presenters
January
2015
Tech Tutorial
Chris Tellez, Senior Client/Server
Analyst
Thursday, January 22, 2015, 10:3010:45 a.m.
TA 130
Showcase
presenters
January
2015
Tech Tutorial
Chris Tellez, Senior Client/Server
Analyst
January, January 22, 2015, 1:301:45 p.m.
TA 130
Showcase
presenters
January
2015
HAPPY Hour Student Showcase Presenter
Work Session – Work session specifically
for the Showcase student presenters
Dr. Verkler, HAPPY Hour Chair
Friday, January 23, 2015, 9:00 a.m.
– 1:00 p.m. (Informal session:
Come and go as you can.)
TA 130
Showcase
presenters
January
2015
The Teacher Work Sample: Teacher
Candidate Impact on Student Achievement
Janet Zajac, UCF College of
Education and Human Performance
Instructor/Clinical Coordinator
Monday, January 26, 2015, 4:305:30 p.m.
TA 117
All
January
2015
The Teacher Work Sample: Teacher
Candidate Impact on Student Achievement
Janet Zajac, UCF College of
Education and Human Performance
Instructor/Clinical Coordinator
Tuesday, January 27, 2015, 4:305:30 p.m.
TA 117
All
January
2015
The Teacher Work Sample: Teacher
Candidate Impact on Student Achievement
Janet Zajac, UCF College of
Education and Human Performance
Instructor/Clinical Coordinator
Wednesday, January 28, 2015,
4:30-5:30 p.m.
TA 130
All
January
2015
The Teacher Work Sample: Teacher
Candidate Impact on Student Achievement
Janet Zajac, UCF College of
Education and Human Performance
Instructor/Clinical Coordinator
Thursday, January 29, 2015
TA 117
All
January 31,
2015
HAPPY HOUR STUDENT SHOWCASE –
In-house conference for students! Student
presentations, keynote speaker, door
prizes, Rising Stars, mock interviews with
principals, teacher supply vendors, great
networking opportunities, refreshments
HAPPY Hour Committee and
Teaching Academy
Saturday, January 31, 2015, 8:30
a.m.- 4:30 p.m.
Orlando
Campus
College of
Education,
Teaching
Academy, &
MIRC
All
February
2015
The Walking School Bus: A Community
Solution
(Workshop Facilitator: Karen Verkler)
Tim Pehlke, Assistant Director for
Special Projects, UCF Center for
Public and Nonprofit Management
Monday, February 2, 2015, 4:305:30 p.m.
TA 130
Elementary
February
2015
Tender Topics: Exploring Life’s Ups and
Downs Through Storybook Reading
(Workshop Facilitator: Lee-Anne Spalding)
Jill A. Esposito, M. Ed.
Early Literacy Master Teacher
Nemours BrightStart
Tuesday, February 3, 2015, 4:305:30 p.m.
TA 130
Early
Childhood/
Elementary
February
2015
The Language of Baseball—Teaching
English in the Dominican Republic
(Workshop Facilitator: Karen Verkler)
Kelly Astro, Director, Research and
Civic Engagement, The Burnett
Honors College
Wednesday, February 4, 2015,
4:30-5:30 p.m.
TA130
K-12 and
TEFL
Students
February
2015
Diversity in Today’s Inclusive Classrooms:
Proactive Strategies for Classroom
Management
(Workshop Facilitator: Christine Duff)
Claire Donehower and Jennnifer
Holbrook, Association of Doctoral
Students in Exceptional Education
(ADSEE)
Thursday, February 5, 2015
4:30-5:30 p.m.
TA130
All
February
2015
Rise and Shine: Tips for First-Year
Teachers
(Workshop Facilitator: Cynthia Walters)
Audrey Dench, UCF Alumni, 2nd
Grade Teacher, Sorrento
Elementary School in Lake County
Thursday, February 5, 2015, 5:006:00 p.m.
UCF South
Lake on
LSCC
Campus,
Room 103
Elementary
Pre-Service
Teachers
February
2015
Interactive Whiteboard Technology
Yolanda Hood, CMC Director
Monday, February 9, 2015, 4:305:30 p.m.
CMC (ED
194)
All
February
2015
How to Get into Graduate School
(Workshop Facilitator: Karen Verkler)
Andrea Withington, Executive
Director of Graduate Services
Tuesday, February 10, 2015, 4:305:30 p.m.
TA130
All
February
2015
Turning Your Showcase Presentation into
a Publication, Honors in the Major Thesis,
or Professional Conference Presentation
Taylar Wenzel, Sherron Roberts,
and Karen Verkler, College of
Education and Human Performance
Faculty
Wednesday, February 11, 2015,
4:30-5:30 p.m.
MIRC
Gallery
2015
Showcase
Presenters
February
2015
Change a Child’s Life: Teaching Children
with Motor Disabilities
(Workshop Facilitator: Karen Verkler)
Krissy Stewart, Community
Relations Manager, Conductive
Education Center of Orlando
Monday, February 16, 2015, 4:305:30 p.m.
TA 130
All
February
2015
Equity vs. Equality: How to be a more
Equitable Educator
(Workshop Facilitator: Karen Verkler)
Liza Ferreira, SCPS Cultural
Relevance Professional Learning
and AVID Elementary Liaison/DDE
T.O.A Title 1
Tuesday, February 17, 2015, 4:305:30 p.m.
TA130
All
February
2015
You Are a Poet; You Just Don’t Know It
Karen Verkler, HAPPY Hour Chair
Wednesday, February 18, 2015,
4:30-5:30 p.m.
TA 130
All
February
2015
Military-Connected Students: What Every
Teacher Should Know About This Special
Group
(Workshop Facilitator: Karen Verkler)
LTC Mario A. Johnson; UCF Army
ROTC; Professor of Military
Science; Richard Sloane, Captain,
USN (Ret), Director of Community
Relations, College of Education and
Human Performance
Thursday, February 19, 2015, 4:305:30 p.m.
TA130
All
February
2015
Books and Bagels: The CMC’s Best Books
of 2014
Yolanda Hood, CMC (Curriculum
Materials Center) Director
Monday, February 23, 2015, 4:305:30 p.m.
CMC (ED
194)
All
February
2015
Explore Mathematics with GeoGebra,
Open Source Dynamic Mathematics
Software
(Workshop Facilitator: Karen Verkler)
Erhan Haciomeroglu and Janet
Andreasen, College of Education
and Human Performance Faculty
Tuesday, February 24, 2015, 11:00
a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
TA 130
February
2015
Yoga in the Classroom
(Workshop Facilitator: Karen Verkler)
Deirdre Englehart, College of
Education and Human Performance
Faculty
Wednesday, February 25, 2015,
4:30-5:30 p.m.
UCF
Sanford/
Lake Mary
Campus,
UP2102,
University
Partnership
Building
Early
Childhood/El
ementary
February
2015
Diversity in Today’s Inclusive Classrooms:
Using Technology as a Tool for Teaching
and Learning
(Workshop Facilitator: Taylor Bousfield)
Jenn Gallupp, Association of
Doctoral Students in Exceptional
Education (ADSEE)
Thursday, February 26, 2015, 4:305:30 p.m.
TA130
All
February
2015
Igniting the Love of Reading in Struggling
Readers
(Workshop Facilitator: Cynthia Walters)
Kelle Moye, UCF Alumni,
Teacher/Reading Coach, Hunters
Creek Middle School, 2013 NCTE
Presentation
Thursday, February 26, 2015, 5:006:00 p.m.
UCF South
Lake on
LSCC
Campus,
Room 103
Elementary
Pre-Service
Teachers
March 2015
Teaching Abroad with the Peace Corps
Carlos Rojas, UCF Peace Corps
Recruiter
Monday, March 2, 2015 4:30 – 5:30
p.m.
TA 130
All
March 2015
Social Media in Education
(Workshop Facilitator: Karen Verkler)
Valeria Brown, SCPS Professional
Development Specialist and 2013
SCPS Teacher of the Year, and
Regina McGurdy, Science
Teacher/Instructional Coach,
Milwee Middle School
Tuesday, March 3, 2015, 4:30-5:30
p.m.
TA130
All
March 2015
Building an Effective Interview Portfolio
(Workshop Facilitator: Karen Verkler)
Sarah Wilson, Teacher, Sterling
Park Elementary School, Seminole
County Public Schools
Wednesday, March 4, 2015, 4:305:30 p.m.
TA130
All
March 2015
Spring Break: March 9-14, 2015
March 2015
Making Math Fun for All Students: Math
Games
(Workshop Facilitator: Karen Verkler)
Jennifer Holbrook, Doctoral Student
and Toni Jennings Fellow
Monday, March 16, 2015, 4:30-5:30
p.m.
TA 130
Elementary
Education
March 2015
What Do You Do with Graphic Novels
(Workshop Facilitator: Karen Verkler)
Yolanda Hood, Curriculum
Materials Center (CMC) Director:
Panel of Local Librarians/Teachers
Wednesday, March 18, 2015, 4:306:00 p.m.
CMC (ED
194)
All
March 2015
First Year Teacher
Lindsay Gregory, Danielle Lewis,
Catherine Mora, UCF Graduates
Wednesday, March 18, 2015, 6:00
p.m. – 7:00 p.m.
UCF
Daytona
Building 140
Room 206
All
March 2015
Diversity in Today’s Inclusive Classrooms:
Culturally Responsive Teaching Workshop
(Workshop Facilitator: Benjamin Gallegos)
Samantha Stone, Association of
Doctoral Students in Exceptional
Education (ADSEE)
Thursday, March 19, 2015
4:30-5:30 p.m.
TA 130
All
March 2015
DOTS – Understanding Your “Hidden”
Biases
(Workshop Facilitator: Cynthia Walters)
Barbara Thompson, Assistant
Director, UCF Office of Diversity
and Inclusion
Thursday, March 19, 2015, 5:006:00 p.m.
UCF South
Lake
Campus,
Rm. 101
All
March 17,
2015
March 2015
Art for Every Subject
(Workshop Facilitator: Karen Verkler)
Carolyn Hopp, UCF College of
Education and Human Performance
Faculty; Tracey R. Morrison and
Jody Roun, UCF CREATE - Center
for Research and Education
Monday, March 23, 2015, 4:30-5:30
p.m.
TA 130
K-12
March 2015
Text Sets-Literacy across the Disciplines
(Workshop Facilitator: Karen Verkler)
Liza Ferreira, SCPS Cultural
Relevance Professional Learning
and AVID Elementary Liaison/DDE
T.O.A Title 1
Tuesday, March 24, 2015, 4:305:30 p.m.
TA130
All
March 2015
Connecting Caldecotts with the Common
Core
Elizabeth Hoffman & Lee-Anne
Spalding, UCF College of Education
and Human Performance Faculty
Wednesday, March 25, 2015, 4:305:30 p.m.
TA130
Elementary
March 2015
Cultivating Curiosity in the Common Core
Classroom (Workshop Facilitator: Karen
Verkler)
Susan Kelly, Associate Director,
Toni Jennings Exceptional
Education Institute, UCF
Thursday, March 26, 2015, 4:305:30 p.m.
TA 130
K-12
March 2015
Anti-Bullying Club: A Student Solution to a
Student Problem
(Workshop Facilitator: Cynthia
Hutchinson)
Hagerty High School’s Anti-Bullying
Club, and Faculty Sponsor Clifphene
Reid
Monday, March 30, 2015, 4:30-5:30
p.m.
TA 130
All
March 2015
Keep Calm and Sub On!
(Workshop Facilitator: Karen Verkler)
Christine Parsons, Seminole
County Substitute Teacher
Tuesday, March 31, 2015, 4:305:30 p.m.
TA 130
All
April 2015
Tips for the Interviewing Process
(Workshop Facilitator: Lou Stanley)
Pete Gaffney, Principal, Keeth
Elementary School; Michelle Walsh,
Principal, Milwee Middle School
Wednesday, April 1, 2015, 4:305:30 p.m.
TA130
All
April 2015
Race in Education
(Workshop Facilitator: Karen Verkler)
Valeria Brown, SCPS Professional
Development Specialist and 2013
SCPS Teacher of the Year, and
Byron Durias, Assistant Principal,
Millennium Middle School
Thursday, April 2, 2015, 4:30-5:30
p.m.
TA 130
All
April 2015
Your Public Library – More Resources
Than You Can Imagine for You, Your
Students and Their Families
(Workshop Facilitator: Karen Verkler)
Danielle King, Branch Manager,
Alafaya Branch Library, & Lauren
Mathur
Monday, April 6, 2015, 4:30-5:30
p.m.
TA130
All
April 2015
Discourse Patterns: Understanding
Cultural Thought Patterns to drive
Instruction
(Workshop Facilitator: Karen Verkler)
Liza Ferreira, SCPS Cultural
Relevance Professional Learning
and AVID Elementary Liaison/DDE
T.O.A Title 1
Tuesday, April 7, 2015, 4:30-5:30
p.m.
TA130
All
Mock Interviews
School Administrators, Central
Florida Schools
Wednesday, April 8, 2015, 5:00–
9:00 p.m.
UCF
Daytona
Building 140
Room 206
All
April 2015
Interviewing Tips
(Workshop Facilitator: Karen Verkler)
Kirstie Gabaldon, Assistant
Principal on Assignment, St. Johns
Public Schools
Monday, April 13, 2015, 4:30-5:30
p.m.
TA 130
All
April 2015
Bullying: What Every Teacher Should
Know About This Issue
(Workshop Facilitator: Karen Verkler)
Nooshan Ashtari, TESOL Doctoral
Student
Tuesday, April 14, 2015, 4:30-5:30
p.m.
TA 130
All
April 2015
Maker Spaces and Maker Faires
(Workshop Facilitator: Karen Verkler)
Yolanda Hood, Curriculum
Materials Center Director; Local
Librarians and Teachers
Wednesday, April 15, 2015, 4:305:30 p.m.
CMC (ED
194)
All
April 2015
Beginning Teacher Advocacy: Walking the
Tightrope During Your First Year
(Workshop Facilitator: Karen Verkler)
Susan Kelly, ESE Doctoral Student
Thursday, April 16, 2015, 4:30-5:30
p.m.
TA 130
All
April 2015
School Transitions: Making the Move from
One School to the Next –or- What I Wish
I’d Known About Graduate School as an
Undergrad!
(Workshop Facilitator: Lee-Anne Spalding)
Megan.Bernier, UCF Graduate,
Teacher, Grand Avenue Primary
Learning Center
Monday, April 20, 2015, 4:30-5:30
p.m.
TA 130
Elementary
April 2015
Change a Child’s Life: Teaching Children
with Motor Disabilities
(Workshop Facilitator: Karen Verkler)
Krissy Stewart, Community
Relations Manager, Conductive
Education Center of Orlando
Tuesday, April 21, 2015, 4:30-5:30
p.m.
TA 130
All
April 2015
Collaboration in Harmony: How to Make
the Parts Fit Together
(Workshop Facilitator: Karen Verkler)
Jennifer Holbrook, Doctoral Student
and Toni Jennings Fellow, and
Dena Dillenseger, Doctoral
Students and Project LEAD Scholar
Wednesday, April 22, 2015, 4:305:30 p.m.
TA 130
All
April 2015
Child and Adolescent Grief: Supporting
Students Following Loss and Transition
(Workshop Facilitator: Karen Verkler)
Elizabeth Crunk, Counselor
Education Doctoral Student and
Toni Jennings Scholar
Thursday, April 23, 2015, 4:30-5:30
p.m.
TA 130
All
April 2015
April 9, 2015
April 27,
2015
April 28,
2015
April 29-May
Study Day
Final Exam Week
5, 2015
May-August
2015
CLOSED FOR THE SUMMER