The Tioga County Historical Society is proud to invite you to take part in the first annual Tioga County Historical Society Antique Show at Tioga Downs Race Track. This high-end show will feature dealers from throughout the region with only the finest antique wares.
The show hours are:
Friday, February 24 from 1:00pm-7:30pm
Saturday, February 25 from 9:00am-6:00pm
Admission to the show is $10 at the door.
Note that this is not an auction or a flea market and only creditable antiques will be sold. This event will raise funds for the Tioga County Historical Society Museum to assist in recovery from flood damages. The Historical Society would like to thank Tioga Downs for their generosity in hosting this event and working to help our organization recover from the September floods.
Friday, February 24, 2012
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Clean Energy Program at Waterman Center
Clean Energy Across New York Saturday, March 10th at 6 PM
Waterman Conservation Education Center, 403 Hilton Road, Apalachin, NY is showing a 40 minute DVD program on Clean Energy Across New York, Saturday March 10th 6:00 pm. Hear what the energy issues and solutions are across NYS.
Six sections are discussed in this program:
Energy Literacy,
Energy Efficiency,
Environmental Impacts of Energy Use,
Renewable Energy Projects in Upstate New York,
Training and
Using Energy Wisely.
The program is FREE but a donation would be helpful in covering expenses.
This DVD was made possible by the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority. Call Waterman Center at 625-2221 for more information.
Waterman Conservation Education Center, 403 Hilton Road, Apalachin, NY is showing a 40 minute DVD program on Clean Energy Across New York, Saturday March 10th 6:00 pm. Hear what the energy issues and solutions are across NYS.
Six sections are discussed in this program:
Energy Literacy,
Energy Efficiency,
Environmental Impacts of Energy Use,
Renewable Energy Projects in Upstate New York,
Training and
Using Energy Wisely.
The program is FREE but a donation would be helpful in covering expenses.
This DVD was made possible by the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority. Call Waterman Center at 625-2221 for more information.
Saturday, February 18, 2012
New Teacher Academy: Delivery of Instruction
Welcome to week three of Edutopia's New Teacher Academy! I'm excited to be here with you sharing my passion to support and mentor new teachers. I hope that you will come back each week and join us as we look at five key topics and provide resources for New Teachers in five key areas. Click HERE for more.
Monday, January 30, 2012
WSKG's Community Converstation
At 7:00pm on Tuesday, January 31, 2012, WSKG will be focusing in Community Conversation radio program on the state-wide education initiatives. Mary Kay Fryes, Superintendent at Johnson City CSD, Ken Slentz, Depute Commissioner of Education, and George Lohmann, Director of the Tioga County Teacher Center, will be interviewed. A podcast of the program will be available for 24 hours on WSKG's Website. WSKG is at 89.3 (Binghamton) or 90.9 (Ithaca)or 91.7 Oneonta/Cooperstown) or 91.1 (Elmira/Corning) or 88.7 (Hornell/Alfred)FM.
Friday, January 27, 2012
Digital Learning Day Wednesday, February 1, 2012
Dear NYS Teacher,
We invite you to join the more than 1.7 million students and tens of thousands of educators participating in the Alliance for Excellent Education’s (Alliance’s) first-ever Digital Learning Day on Wednesday, February 1, 2012. Visit http://www.digitallearningday.org/sign-up to stay connected, get updates, and receive exclusive information on what you can do to support this effort by taking less than five minutes to sign up and join the wave of innovation and momentum that is building for this groundbreaking event.
This national awareness campaign is designed to celebrate innovative teachers and highlight instructional practices that strengthen and personalize learning for all students. The Digital Learning Day campaign explores how digital learning can provide teachers and students with the opportunities they deserve in an effort to build or become part of a workforce that is ready to succeed in college, a career, and life.
Celebrations and activities of all varieties are happening cross the country at the state, district, and classroom levels. In addition to the national campaign, twenty-nine states and the District of Columbia are hosting their own statewide activities to support digital learning efforts within their states. On Digital Learning Day, a virtual national town hall meeting will be held in Washington, DC along with a live webcast starting at 9:00 a.m. (ET). By developing these tools and hosting the first-ever national Digital Learning Day on February 1, 2012, the Alliance strives to build momentum for a wave of innovation that changes policies, shifts attitudes, and supports wide scale adoption of these promising instructional practices nationwide.
How can you participate?
1. Make a plan to celebrate Digital Learning Day at your school with your students. Go to the Teacher Toolkit for idea from us and teachers like you at http://www.digitallearningday.org/toolkits/teachers/. The Awesome Ideas link provides templates you can customize that may give you some ideas to get started.
2. Sign-up at http://www.digitallearningday.org/sign-up to participate and add your participation to the thousands of teachers celebrating Digital Learning Day with their students.
3. And, you are encouraged to watch the live town hall meeting being streamed via the Internet on February 1, 2012. You can view this on your own, with colleagues, or as a class. Please make sure to register at http://digitallearningday.eventbrite.com/ to get the directions, bookmark the link, and test your system before the live webcast on February 1 at 1:00 PM Eastern Time.
We invite you to join the more than 1.7 million students and tens of thousands of educators participating in the Alliance for Excellent Education’s (Alliance’s) first-ever Digital Learning Day on Wednesday, February 1, 2012. Visit http://www.digitallearningday.org/sign-up to stay connected, get updates, and receive exclusive information on what you can do to support this effort by taking less than five minutes to sign up and join the wave of innovation and momentum that is building for this groundbreaking event.
This national awareness campaign is designed to celebrate innovative teachers and highlight instructional practices that strengthen and personalize learning for all students. The Digital Learning Day campaign explores how digital learning can provide teachers and students with the opportunities they deserve in an effort to build or become part of a workforce that is ready to succeed in college, a career, and life.
Celebrations and activities of all varieties are happening cross the country at the state, district, and classroom levels. In addition to the national campaign, twenty-nine states and the District of Columbia are hosting their own statewide activities to support digital learning efforts within their states. On Digital Learning Day, a virtual national town hall meeting will be held in Washington, DC along with a live webcast starting at 9:00 a.m. (ET). By developing these tools and hosting the first-ever national Digital Learning Day on February 1, 2012, the Alliance strives to build momentum for a wave of innovation that changes policies, shifts attitudes, and supports wide scale adoption of these promising instructional practices nationwide.
How can you participate?
1. Make a plan to celebrate Digital Learning Day at your school with your students. Go to the Teacher Toolkit for idea from us and teachers like you at http://www.digitallearningday.org/toolkits/teachers/. The Awesome Ideas link provides templates you can customize that may give you some ideas to get started.
2. Sign-up at http://www.digitallearningday.org/sign-up to participate and add your participation to the thousands of teachers celebrating Digital Learning Day with their students.
3. And, you are encouraged to watch the live town hall meeting being streamed via the Internet on February 1, 2012. You can view this on your own, with colleagues, or as a class. Please make sure to register at http://digitallearningday.eventbrite.com/ to get the directions, bookmark the link, and test your system before the live webcast on February 1 at 1:00 PM Eastern Time.
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Stimulate Students' Imaginations with Project-Based Learning
by Brad Kuntz (posted on ASCD Website)
As teachers, we have an incredible opportunity to engage our students in real-world problem solving that will greatly benefit them as learners. By creating dynamic and engaging projects, we can show our students how to use the knowledge and skills they are learning inside the classroom in their lives outside of the classroom, and give them a chance to demonstrate what they can do as resourceful and creative residents of their respective communities. Then our students will see that their education is the key not only to improving their own lives, but also to improving the lives of those around them.
We are under so much pressure to cover every single learning target in the curriculum that we rarely get to discuss why students should know what we're teaching or how they can put it to use in their lives. And yes, it's important to connect the knowledge and skill set they're learning to potential careers. But not all students are in touch with their own career possibilities or can even think that far ahead. Therefore, whether you connect your students to the school community, a local business or nonprofit organization, or other entities within your area, reaching out beyond the four walls of the classroom may be what it takes to motivate students to participate in their own education and to help them imagine their own futures.
Combining standards-based instruction with a community outreach component is not easy, so start small. Try adding one new component to something you're already doing. Perhaps for this term's research paper, your students can write about the work of a local nonprofit organization. They could research what the organization does and the issues it addresses, and they could even volunteer to work with the organization. Then they could write a paper about what they learned and create multimedia presentations, which would teach them about the problems directly afflicting their community as well as specific ways in which they can lend a hand to address these challenges.
No matter the content area, or the size and scope of the unit, real-world connections can be built in to your lessons. Perhaps during an ecology unit, students can organize some native habitat restoration or invasive species removal. Maybe there's another unit where students could begin a neighborhood composting program, or organize a tree planting activity. Math students can try crunching and graphing budget information from the school district to better understand the financial restrictions facing their school. For advanced language students, there's no limit to the extent of project possibilities they could undertake with members of the community. And the list goes on.
Project-based learning can be an effective way for students to gain a healthy perspective about their role in society. And giving students these opportunities can be exactly what they need to link their efforts in school to the real world. We need to provide young people with the tools necessary to turn their ideals into reality and to open their eyes to the value of education and the role it will play in their futures. We can prove to our students that their actions can make a difference and that their voices will be heard if they become thoughtful, informed, and engaged citizens.
As teachers, we have an incredible opportunity to engage our students in real-world problem solving that will greatly benefit them as learners. By creating dynamic and engaging projects, we can show our students how to use the knowledge and skills they are learning inside the classroom in their lives outside of the classroom, and give them a chance to demonstrate what they can do as resourceful and creative residents of their respective communities. Then our students will see that their education is the key not only to improving their own lives, but also to improving the lives of those around them.
We are under so much pressure to cover every single learning target in the curriculum that we rarely get to discuss why students should know what we're teaching or how they can put it to use in their lives. And yes, it's important to connect the knowledge and skill set they're learning to potential careers. But not all students are in touch with their own career possibilities or can even think that far ahead. Therefore, whether you connect your students to the school community, a local business or nonprofit organization, or other entities within your area, reaching out beyond the four walls of the classroom may be what it takes to motivate students to participate in their own education and to help them imagine their own futures.
Combining standards-based instruction with a community outreach component is not easy, so start small. Try adding one new component to something you're already doing. Perhaps for this term's research paper, your students can write about the work of a local nonprofit organization. They could research what the organization does and the issues it addresses, and they could even volunteer to work with the organization. Then they could write a paper about what they learned and create multimedia presentations, which would teach them about the problems directly afflicting their community as well as specific ways in which they can lend a hand to address these challenges.
No matter the content area, or the size and scope of the unit, real-world connections can be built in to your lessons. Perhaps during an ecology unit, students can organize some native habitat restoration or invasive species removal. Maybe there's another unit where students could begin a neighborhood composting program, or organize a tree planting activity. Math students can try crunching and graphing budget information from the school district to better understand the financial restrictions facing their school. For advanced language students, there's no limit to the extent of project possibilities they could undertake with members of the community. And the list goes on.
Project-based learning can be an effective way for students to gain a healthy perspective about their role in society. And giving students these opportunities can be exactly what they need to link their efforts in school to the real world. We need to provide young people with the tools necessary to turn their ideals into reality and to open their eyes to the value of education and the role it will play in their futures. We can prove to our students that their actions can make a difference and that their voices will be heard if they become thoughtful, informed, and engaged citizens.
Monday, January 23, 2012
TCTC Director at Network Team Training in Utica
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