President: Timothy Clapper
About TC Curriculum & Design, LLC: Models and provides active professional development sessions, workshops, and whole-school reform to educational institutions desiring to improve instructional practices. Services in the Northeastern United States. Lesson planning and curriculum consulting worldwide.Vision Statement: I can assist with creating a professional learning community to improve both educator and student learning. The plan will include models that incorporates top learning strategies and the latest technology that works!
"Making a difference in learning"
Founder and Coordinator of PAILAL (Professionals Against Improperly Labeling Active Learners)
TCCID is an Educational and Organization improvement company based in New Hampshire. Specializations include both educator professional development sessions to enhance classroom instructional strategies and whole-school improvement. While services are generally conducted in the northeastern United States, consideration is given to other locations as well. TCCID shows educators how to get off the platform to become facilitators of learning. Preparing students for the 21st century requires that educators have a solid grasp on learning theories and a working knowledge of how to integrate technology in their lessons. See my slide which will shed some light on 21st Century learning. My strategies engage the learner by differentiating the instruction to reach all learners in the classroom. My passion is active learning strategies and I am proud to be the founder of PAILAL which helps to make educators aware of the other gifted learners; the often neglected active learner. TCCID is a Service Disabled Veteran Owned Business (SDVOB).
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Sessions suited to your needs including:
Other professional development opportunities are available
Facilitated and Guided Professional Development Sessions
Class Observation, Assessment, and Modeling
Web 2.0 integration
Can show you how to convert your school to a model learning institution which prepares your students for real-world success and 21st Century skills.
Recent work included: Developing differentiated, brain-based lesson plans for an important history project by a prominent veteran's museum. Additionally, I have designed an entire collaborative web site for an education group and prepared lesson plans for them that involve global collaboration and current event awareness. Here's what they share:
I highly recommend TC Curriculum & Instructional Design (TCCID) for all your curriculum, instruction, and teacher professional development needs. Because of their excellent reputation, TCCID was asked to develop interactive lesson plans to be used with our museum’s recently developed educational DVDs. TCCID produced an extremely comprehensive, high quality, and user friendly product in record time. The lesson plans were placed on the museum website prior to school opening and will be used by thousands of teachers worldwide thanks to TCCID.
----Dr. Russell A. Gallagher
----Pennsylvania Veterans Museum
Click on the newsletter to read my article on Differentiated Instruction ( In PDF Format )
Click on this newsletter to read my article on developing curriculum webs to reach more learners
This is a free storybook that covers the Global History, Cold War section. Educators and students may freely use it to advance learning. It may be used to "catch learners up" who have perhaps been absent, as a review for an exam such as the NY State REGENTS, or for learners who wish to learn on their own.The sound quality is a bit scratchy but the narratives are very audible.The zipped file is about 12 MB so it should download quickly for those on cable.
Dr. Tom Hoerr is the Headmaster of New City School in St. Louis where the Multiple Intelligences (MI) are an essential part of student learning. Tom is well known in MI circles and readily shares his vast knowledge and experiences. He periodically sends a newsletter specifically about MI to educators world-wide. If you would like to be included in this distribution list, please email Tom at: trhoerr@newcityschool.org and ask to be placed on his distribution list. A terrific person doing great things! TeacherTube provides videos which are often developed and uploaded by teachers themselves. The videos can add powerful and fun impact to lessons and may meet the learning style needs and preferences of your students. rubrics4teachers is a site which will help you design a rubric for your instructional needs. Microsoft Office 2007. I list this link because Office 2007 came out in 2006 and is over four years old now (Microsoft Office 2010 is out and many are still tied to the 97-2003 version). If we are to set the example we must maintain technology skills ourselves. eSchoolnews.com. Of course I have to list this site. In fact I recommend their free newsletter to stay abreast of current learning tools and strategies.
Jensen, E. (2008). Brain-based learning: The new paradigm of teaching (2d ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press. Buckley, W., & Smith, A. (2008). Application of multimedia technologies to enhance distance learning. [Electronic version]. RE:view, 39(2). Cunningham, C., & Billingsley, M. (2006). Curriculum webs. Boston: Allyn and Bacon. Gardner, H. (2006). Five minds for the future.Boston: Harvard Business School Press. Johnson, A. (2008). Internet strategies for gifted students. Gifted Child Today, 31(2). Joyce, B., Weil, M. & Calhoun, E. (2004). Models of teaching. (7th Ed). Boston: Pearson Education, Inc. Williams, R., & Dunn, S. (2008). Brain compatible learning for the block. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press.
Clapper, T. C. (2010). Sand tables for learning: Bringing learning to life. PAILAL Newsletter, 3(1).
Clapper, T. C. (2010, Apr). Role play and simulation: Returning to teaching for understanding. The Education Digest, 75(8), 39-43.
Clapper, T. C. (2010, Jan). Beyond Knowles: What those conducting simulation need to know about adult learning theory. Clinical Simulation in Nursing, 6(1), e7-e14. doi:10.1016/j.ecns.2009.07.003 *
*2010 non-research article of the year.
Clapper, T. C. (2009). An ironic twist in learning: The end of the death-by-lecture session. PAILAL Newsletter, 2(3).
Clapper, T. C. (2009). Moving away from teaching and becoming a facilitator of learning. PAILAL Newsletter, 2(2).
Clapper, T. C. (2009). Recognizing the Other Gifted Learner: The Active Learner-The Hunter Child. PAILAL Newsletter, 2(1).
Clapper, T. C. (2009). Skills for the 21st century require active learning. PAILAL Newsletter, 1(3).
Clapper, T. C. (2008). Using technology to reach your learners. PAILAL Newsletter, 1(2).
Clapper, T. C. (2008). Curriculum webs for reaching learners. PAILAL Newsletter, 1(1).
Clapper, T. C. (2008). Differentiated instruction and the multiple intelligences. ASCD Multiple Intelligences Network Newsletter, 14(5).
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