Text Box:       Phone:  818-677-4901 Email  susan.belgrad@csun.edu Website:  https://www.csun.edu/~SB4310/  

 

Dr. Susan Belgrad

 

 

Teacher Professional Development on Differentiated Learning:

Promoting Success for All Students through Engagement in  Brain-Based Learning

 

 

About the Consultant:

Susan Belgrad, a highly-experienced trainer in differentiated learning strategies, the cooperative learning classroom and performance assessment, is a Professor of Education at California State University, Northridge. She specializes in promoting the brain-friendly classroom through student-centered learning and differentiated assessment strategies that are showcased by portfolios and e-portfolios.

 

Belgrad leads graduate courses and professional development for teachers in differentiated learning and assessment, best classroom management practices, brain-compatible curriculum development, and technology-supported learning. Her research is on teacher efficacy and student learning and the impact of classroom learning culture on brain development in children and adolescents.

 

Belgrad has had articles published in journals and monographs and been a contributor to many news and magazine articles.  She has written book chapters on performance-based assessment and is the lead author of  The Portfolio Connection: Student Work Linked to Standards, 3rd ed.

Professional Development and Training

 

 

Authentic Assessment in the K-12 Classroom Series

 

 

Text Box: You Get What You Assess and You Don’t Get  What You Don’t Assess.   This series introduces a wide range of tools, strategies and activities that teachers can put to work in their classrooms the next day.  Assessment for learning strategies—including learning lists, learning logs, checklists, teacher-made tests and scoring rubrics provide teachers with the foundation they need to become skillful “kid watchers” and effective advocates for each student’s learning success—as well as social skill development.   The last training module of this series focuses on how the academic portfolio and eportfolio promotes student voice as it seamlessly engages parents and significant others in the achievement and success of each student.   v Tools for Authentically Assessing Student Learning v   Developing Student Voice in the Assessment Process v Connecting Student Voice through Portfolios v Creating an Electronic Portfolio v Student Led Portfolio Conferences

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Brain-Friendly Classroom Series

 

 

 

 

 

Text Box: This series introduces participants to the increasing research and breakthroughs on our thinking about   brain development in pre-K through 12th grade   students.  With this knowledge teachers gain new understanding about student learning, motivation and behavior and acquire methods and strategies to promote active and respectful learning communities in their classrooms.   The series provides step-by-step ways to design differentiated learning (constructivist) lessons that assure knowledge acquisition by diverse students while also building social skills, conflict resolution skills and ethics of caring and citizenship.   v Understanding the Developing Brain v How to Create Brain-Friendly Classroom v Engaged Learning Workshop Series—acquiring the tools of cooperative learning and differentiated teaching practices v Why Create the Caring Classroom?  Brain-Based Reasons for Democracy in the K-12 Classroom v How to Assess Student Learning in the Brain-Friendly Classroom v WOW!  Using Cyber-Social Technology in the Engaged Learning Classroom  

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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