How to Make Lessons Student-Centered by Including Different Models of Teaching and Different Principles of Learning

January 22nd, 2025

8:30 am - 11:30 am

MSAA Office (33 Forge Parkway, Franklin MA)

MSAA Executive Leadership Workshop for Academic and Career Ed. Teachers, Special Education Specialists and Teachers, Department Chairs,
and Curriculum Coordinators

How to Make Lessons Student-Centered by Including Different Models of Teaching and Different Principles of Learning

This workshop will explore how educators can make their lessons more
student-centered by broadening their lesson plans to include different models of teaching, different principles of learning, and more engaging instructional strategies in each lesson. This workshop will inspire teachers to plan lessons in a different way. Educators will be able to put new instructional practices into immediate use in the classroom.

Participants will:

· Discover a mnemonic approach to skillfully being able to match teaching

moves “in real time”

· Compare and contrast at least twenty-seven different models of teaching

· Consciously increasing principles of learning in each lesson

· Practice several strategies that engage students cooperatively in a
student-centered lesson

When: Wednesday, January 22, 2025, from 8:30 am to 11:30 am

Delivery Method: In-Person Workshop

Location: The MSAA Office, 33 Forge Parkway, Franklin, MA

Presenter: Thomas L. Brow, Jr., Seaside Educational Consultants

PD Hours: 3 in Content Area Leadership and Administration

Fees: Member $150 / Non-Member $205

MSAA Contact: Ethel Kawesa, ekawesa@msaa.net

Thomas L. Brow, Jr. | Seaside Educational Consultants

Tom Brow, an educational consultant, instructional coach, former teacher, high school social studies department head, and middle school Principal for many years, earned a bachelor’s degree in history from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, a Master’s degree in Community Education and a C.A.G.S degree in Administration. Tom presented bi-monthly workshops at an annual pre-K-12 induction program for well over a decade and has coached teachers and administrators. He has earned numerous marks of recognition from the local Excellence in Education Award, Middlesex District Attorney’s Citizenship in Action Award, to co-runner up Massachusetts Teacher of the Year Award. His vast experience in middle school education both in classroom instruction and supervision, his love of skillful teaching and learning, and his enthusiasm is evident at all his workshops.