Dr. Jeffrey Winter presents on “Understanding Your Personal Work Style” at ATT’s Teachers’ Educational Conference on Feb. 15.

Associated Talmud Torahs of Chicago’s annual Teachers’ Educational Conference took place on Monday, Feb. 15 at the ATT. The Conference featured many workshops for all ATT Day School and High School teachers, from pre-nursery through 12th grade. Close to 500 teachers attended.

Pre-nursery, nursery, and kindergarten teachers attended “Exploring Executive Functions in Early Childhood Education” presented by Rush Neurobehavioral Center and “Developing Language, Literacy, and Executive Functioning Experiences in the Classroom” presented by WEE Speech.

Teachers of Judaic studies attended workshops on the following: “Bringing Simcha into the Classroom” and “Chinuch Perspectives of Gedolei Yisroel” presented by Rabbi Mordecai Yaroslawitz; “Understanding Your Personal Work Style” presented by Dr. Jeffrey Winter; “Rashi Beneath the Surface” presented by Rabbi Michael Myers; and “Dealing with our Students Contemporary Challenges” presented by Mrs. Faigy Zelcer.

General studies teachers attended workshops on “Reading, Writing, and Thinking” and “Integrated Higher Order Thinking Skills” presented by Brian Pete; “Getting Started with Differentiation in Middle and High School” and Using Formative Assessment to Drive Differentiated Instruction” presented by Dr. Kristina Doubet; “Creating A Community of Leaners: The Responsive Classroom Approach” presented by Sari Donenberg and Adi Dimri; “Teaching Poetry to 21st Century Learners” presented by Ms. Sheri Goldstein; and “Teaching Literacy Using the Workshop Approach” presented by Carly Rosenberg and Sarah Weinstein.

There was a special workshop entitled “Data: The Driving Force behind Student Success” presented by the REACH Team for special education/resource teachers and a librarian/media specialist networking session facilitated by Debbie Feder and Sarah Burnstein. An administrative workshop entitled, “Facilitating Transfer form Staff Room to Classroom” was presented by Brian Pete for principals, assistant principals, and program coordinators.

This annual conference is for all religious and general studies teachers in the ATT’s affiliated day schools and high schools. Co-chairpersons of the conference are: Rabbi Avrohom Shimon Moller and Mrs. Chani Friedman. For further information, please contact 773-973-2828.

This annual conference day is part of the ATT’s Barbakoff Department of Teacher Education and Development.