GATEWAY TO MASTERY^® Summer Institute

Location: Noblesville High School - Noblesville, Indiana

Dates: June 15-June 17, 2009

Who should attend: Teachers, Teaching Teams, Administrators           

"I am completely delighted with the experience from the materials to our stay. This has been the best educational learning experience of my career." -2006 Summer Institute Participant

About The Institute

Join us for 3 days of intensive training and fun-filled learning.       GATEWAY TO MASTERY integrates the Quality Management philosophy  of Continuous Improvement with the latest brain and assessment research, cognitive theory, child psychology and systems thinking to improve every aspect of the school and classroom. The Summer Institute offers five days of training, Indiana State University will offer graduate level credits and CRU's will be available through Indiana NCA. The workshop is facilitated by Jeff and Jacquie Burgard who successfully developed and pioneered Continuous Improvement techniques for the school and classroom.

Participants will gain knowledge and experience in all Three Disciplines of

GATEWAY TO MASTERY: Culture, Knowledge and Performance Mastery^™ The Burgards will combine modeling, practice, lecture, discussions, group work and activities into the schedule which includes opportunities to learn theory and practice, experience the student’s perspective, practice the teacher’s role and receive the necessary preparation time to implement the philosophy at the start of the next school year. Space is limited to 35 participants to ensure plenty of one on one coaching.

"I absolutely loved the entire week. Great information, excellent teachers and wonderful colleagues and beautiful scenery – how could I ask for more? I am so excited about my upcoming school year: so are my students – they just don’t know how wonderful their new learning system will be!"                 -2006 Summer Institute Participant

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Participants Will Be Able To:

• Apply systems thinking to their unique situation for better communication and alignment

• Learn a framework to continuously improve learning and culture

• Understand how to manage people and systems instead of behavior

• Apply effective, unobtrusive, school-wide, classroom and individual data collection techniques to enable continuous adjustments - without being a statistician

• Implement on-going staff and/or student engagement through sharing data, discussing challenges, testing theories and      planning improvement

• Acquire and utilize feedback to improve the school/           classroom system

• Tap into intrinsic motivation for improved enthusiasm

• Learn how to have high achievement and high standards

• Create a standards based, continuously improving learning system

• Understand how to effectively utilize both formative and   summative assessments

• Learn how to overcome the “Teach, Test and Forget” paradigm   and build classroom teamwork

• Enable staff and/or students to become partners in their            own improvement

• Understand how to utilize both rubric and non-rubric performance assessments in the classroom

• Develop authentic assessments of student performance

• Develop objective, easy to understand rubrics and evaluation techniques to distinguish between understanding and presentation

• Show students how focus their learning through better self-assessment and analysis of their own learning data 

• Capitalize on progress data to become teachers who are more responsive to learning 

• Assess efficacy of improvement interventions in the school/classroom culture and learning

Tools to Take Home

Participants will have access to web-based GATEWAY TO MASTERY  Tool-Kits which provide all the tools necessary to implement the techniques they learn. They will also receive four wall size graphs to monitor class progress.

More Information

To see more detailed information on all Three Disciplines of GATEWAY TO MASTERY, click here.

Pre-requisite: Bachelors Degree

“When you understand the continuous improvement philosophy and how the tools are used to implement that philosophy, I can’t ever imagine going back to any other means of conducting business in the classroom!”               -2005 Summer Institute Participant

Facilitators

Jeffrey J. Burgard

Co-owner & Educational Consultant, J.J. Burgard & Associates, Inc.; Bachelor of Arts, California State University, Sacramento. Eleven years experience as a middle school teacher; author of Continuous Improvement in the Science Classroom: conducted workshops for educators throughout the United States and Australia: presented at conferences/schools in Sri Lanka, India, Indonesia and Nepal.

Jacqueline K. Burgard

Co-owner & Educational Consultant, J.J. Burgard & Associates, Inc.; Bachelor of Science, Illinois State University, Normal, Illinois. Sixteen years experience with Quality Management principles in business; worked in kindergarten and junior high classrooms: conducted workshops for educators throughout the United States and Australia.

More about J.J. Burgard & Associates, Inc.

"The two of you are great example of what our society should be doing   and how they should be thinking to help children be enthusiastic               and successful!"                                                                                                 -2006 Summer Institute Participant

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Registration

Registration is Closed

Tuition

Individuals: $950.00/per person

Teams: $925.00/person for 2-3*

Groups: $900.00/person for 4 or more*

*Each team or group participant needs to register individually

Payment

You may pay for tuition by purchase order, credit card, Paypal,

 check or money order

Questions about the Summer Institute

call 1.866.630.6995  or e-mail

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Housing

Through Indiana State University

To reserve housing at Hines Hall contact: Jane Compton

If you would rather stay in a hotel, click here to check hotels in Terre Haute.

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