Collegium for the Advancement of Education
Teachers who rank highly in the Golden Apple selection process are invited to participate in Collegium for the Advancement of Teaching, a weeklong professional development seminar in June at South Seas Resort on Captiva Island.
The training focus for this year's Collegium is Choosing Excellence, a continuous improvement based program which provides strategies for increasing student achievement by helping students to self-evaluate and make responsible choices. This training integrates the Quality School philosophy of Dr. William Glasser with the Sterling Quality model used by The School District of Lee County. Participants will learn to use Dr. Glasser's ideas as the basis for developing ways to examine data, set and monitor goals, and integrate quality tools into the classroom. By Choosing Excellence, our students will be well prepared to make positive contributions to our workforce and to our community.
The culminating event of Collegium is the end of the week project. Educators form groups and present a humorous skit that incorporates the concepts of the training. The projects are evaluated by the trainers and Foundation Board Members.
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