Many of you already have access to Inspiration®, Webspiration Classroom and Kidspiration® in your schools and are interested in using visual thinking and learning tools to help your students achieve academic success. Research and experts, like the Institute for the Advancement of Research in Education at AEL, state that visual tools, such as graphic organizers and outlines, have significantly assisted students of all ages to achieve learning objectives and gain valuable skills and knowledge to apply both in school and daily life. However, the challenge often becomes integrating into classroom instruction these strategies and resources to facilitate student learning.
Inspiration Software®, Inc. has new professional development workshops available to help you apply these learning strategies and utilize the tools you already have in your classroom more effectively. These workshops combine learning more about visual learning techniques and how to apply them in the classroom to develop strong critical thinking and organizational skills.
Inspiration Software’s technology tools are based on proven visual methodologies that have helped students, grades K-12, brainstorm, think, learn, analyze and write. Our three new workshops, each led by an Inspiration Software certified trainer, are relevant to all K-12 educators.
“Maximizing Success with Visual Learning and Inspiration: Essential Comprehension, Organization and Communication Tools” Workshop
Focused around Inspiration 9, this workshop teaches effective learning and teaching methods that help students, grades 6-12, strongly succeed in Language Arts, Social Studies and Science courses or anywhere students read and write. With Inspiration, you can introduce your students to the power of brainstorming and critical thinking through graphic organizers, concept maps, mind maps, and outlines. Students will then be able to take their organized information and confidently communicate their new knowledge and concepts in a presentation, through Inspiration’s Presentation Manager.
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To learn more about the “Maximizing Success with Visual Learning and Inspiration” workshop, click here.
“Tap the Power of Visual Learning with Webspiration Classroom: Analyzing, Outlining and Much More…” Workshop
By using our online tool, Webspiration Classroom service, participants in this workshop learn how to incorporate visual thinking throughout students’ assignments and work in the classroom, computer lab, and at home. When your students have Webspiration Classroom accounts the tool is always available to help facilitate students’ learning and assignments can be submitted to teachers when they are completed, eliminating lost assignments. Webspiration Classroom can also be used to support collaborative projects. This workshop not only covers visual thinking strategies, but also includes best practices in using Webspiration Classroom for student-teacher assignment work flow, and collaboration processes and communication.
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To learn more about integrating visual learning with Webspiration Classroom, click here.
“Visual Thinking and Learning with Kidspiration 3: Engaging Students and Building Organizational, Reading, Writing and Math Skills” Workshop
In this workshop, educators will gain skills in helping their young students develop thinking, literacy and numeracy skills using the proven principles of visual learning and Kidspiration. In developing reading and writing skills, Kidspiration helps build students’ word recognition, vocabulary and comprehension using visual tools that combine pictures, text and spoken words. With the visual math tools, students build a strong mathematical foundation for reasoning and problem solving by using visual representations (color tiles, pattern blocks, base ten blocks, fraction tiles, and fraction boxes) to understand math concepts. This workshop helps K-5 teachers learn and apply visual thinking and Kidspiration across the curriculum to help improve students’ learning.
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For more information on how to engage your students and help them build organizational, reading, writing and math skills, click here.
All three professional development courses are each offered in one day-commitments, providing two three-hour sessions with a maximum of 25 participants. For more information, visit www.inspiration.com/professional-development or contact one of our Sales Account Managers at (800) 877-4292.
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