NTEC's 5-STAR PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT SERIES
National Teacher Education Center (NTEC) is dedicated to helping teachers reach their professional goals as educators. We offer outstanding teacher education programs designed to meet the individual needs of teachers and the communities they serve to increase student academic achievement.
The Professional Development Series offered to our school partners is a blended format, with online activities and resources, face-to-face instruction, and guided peer collaboration - allowing staff to advance their learning while working at the school.
All NTEC Professional Development Courses do allow participants to earn a maximum of 18 CPDUs.
2011-12 Professional Development Courses
Differentiated Instruction
The Differentiated Instruction (DI) Program offered through NTEC presents instructional methods that emphasize meeting the individual needs of students with varying skill levels and backgrounds.
Positive Behavioral Interventions & Supports
In this module, you will examine the behaviors of students that require intervention and support. Positive Behavioral Interventions & Supports (PBIS) is a school-wide discipline system that includes proactive methods and strategies for identifying, teaching, and supporting appropriate student behaviors in order to create a positive school environment.
Bilingual/ESL Strategies
NTEC’s Bilingual/English as a Second Language (ESL) Strategies Program provides teachers with access to research-based instructional practices in order to increase their understanding and implementation of effective bilingual strategies for teaching English language learners.
Response to Intervention
NTEC’s Response to Intervention (RTI) Program includes both academic and behavioral programs based on key RTI elements: high quality curriculum, tiered instruction and intervention, ongoing student assessment, and family involvement.
Instructional Technology
The Instructional Technology Program focuses on meaningful integration of available technology into day-to-day classroom instruction.
Curriculum Mapping
Our Curriculum Mapping Program clearly addresses the necessity to synthesize various models and create a framework that focuses on the recommendations, requisites, and desires that affect students' learning and teaching environments.
Custom Programs
NTEC works with schools to initiate Customized Professional Development Programs determined by the needs of the school. NTEC recognizes that schools have different needs and will discern and address these needs through a program partnership. NTEC’s Mentoring Program will provide coaches who will work with your school leadership team to implement an instructional program that supports your school’s learning goals.
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Administrator Academies
NTEC provides workshops that will allow participants to obtain Administrator Academy (AA) hours through the Illinois State Board of Education. We are flexible in meeting the desired outcomes for all administrator academies.
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