Upcoming Events

For a more complete list of professional development opportunities, visit www.southdakotapd.com. 

• Workshop brings math, CTE together
• Health Education Standards and Assessment training: The next step
• Aligning Health and Reading with A HEAP of Books
• South Dakota Board of Education to meet in January

Health Education Standards and Assessment training:
The next step
Coordinated School Health is seeking teachers responsible for health education in their districts to participate in the pilot training for South Dakota Health Education Standards and Assessment II – Searchable Database CD/Web-based Assessment System. The training will be held Jan. 14-15, 2008, at the Performance Data Center, 200 West Pleasant Drive, in Pierre.

Participants must have taken South Dakota Health Education Standards and Assessment I and/or Health Methods for the Elementary Teacher offered through Black Hills State University. This initial training provided participants with an introduction to classroom instruction and assessment techniques designed to increase health literacy in our schools.

The 15-hour training, a follow-up to Standards and Assessment I, is designed to give teachers at all levels (elementary, middle and high school) specific knowledge, skills, competencies and techniques in using assessment as motivation for learning as well as assessment of learning. This will be done through:

• Receiving hands-on experience using the HEAP (Health Education Assessment Project) Searchable Database CD and the Web-based Assessment System to create, interpret, and administer tests
• Review of the South Dakota Health Education Standards
• Continued reinforcement of Bloom’s Revised Taxonomy
• Indepth follow-up to “Teaching With The End In Mind”
• Practice writing assessment items
• Using the Formative Assessment process with these combined strategies
• Reinforcing techniques of designing/implementing standards-based lessons
• Use of the HEAP assessment framework as a guide for health education instruction

Participants will be eligible to receive one graduate credit through Black Hills State University ($40) or one Department of Education Teacher Renewal Credit at no charge. Participants may also take the course for no credit. Registration deadline is Dec. 31. Click here to register online.

To learn how one South Dakota school is using the Web-based Assessment System in the classroom, click here.

For more information about the Standards and Assessment II training, contact Karen Keyser, Coordinated School Health, at the Department of Education. (605) 773-6808. karen.keyser@state.sd.us. 

Aligning Health and Reading with A HEAP of Books
You know how important health education is for students, but finding time to teach it is a challenge. A training titled Aligning Health and Reading with a HEAP of Books offers practical solutions for elementary and secondary teachers, school counselors, nurses, and others for getting it all done!

The training is designed to help teachers make connections between the health knowledge and skills their students should achieve in order to become health literate and the books they integrate into their daily lessons on reading and writing.

Aligning Health and Reading with a HEAP of Books will be held Jan. 10-11, 2008, 8:30 a.m.-4 p.m., at the Ramkota in Aberdeen. Participants will be eligible to receive one graduate credit through Black Hills State University ($40) or one Department of Education Teacher Renewal Credit at no charge. Participants may also take the course for no credit.

The deadline for registering is Dec. 31. Click here to register online.

For more information, contact Karen Keyser, Coordinated School Health, at the Department of Education. (605) 773-6808. karen.keyser@state.sd.us

South Dakota Board of Education to meet in January
The South Dakota Board of Education is scheduled to meet Jan. 15-16, 2008, in Pierre (Kneip Building, Conference Room 3). When available, an agenda will be posted at http://doe.sd.gov/secretary/board/schedule.asp.