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Welcome to Eastern Suffolk BOCES Curriculum and Assessment Initiatives/Curriculum Development Services! At this site, you will find resources for your teaching and learning, dynamic programs and services that will help you and your students in all kinds of classrooms and will provide ideas that will stretch your thinking.
Because learning is the focus of all our work, we believe that exploring current issues, designing best practices and developing networks and communities for information sharing and discussion are elements at the heart of our program. Our goal is to reach into classrooms through teachers and energize the learning through research-based practices and state-of-the-art instruction. We encourage you to explore our site, to investigate and seek resources here for your own journey and we are confident that this journey will be an exciting, rewarding path to professional growth.
Our program is grounded in and guided by NYS Learning Standards and Assessments. It includes a rich, extensive menu of services, all deeply embedded with current educational issues and approaches to learning. A brief sampling of these services are:
Staff Development
- Regional workshops, seminars & symposiums - seminars and symposiums are excellent learning opportunities for educators. Each workshop is carefully designed to support the most current thinking in education, and provide a forum for new ideas.
- In-district workshops - are professional development sessions requested specifically by a particular district to address a particular need. These workshops are customized by BOCES staff in collaboration with district administrators.
- In-district coaching/mentoring - is a method used by many school districts to supply the extra support that may be required by teachers either in a particular grade level or content area. Highly expert coaches work, over a period of time, in classrooms with teachers and outside the classroom in training sessions with those teachers and their administrators according to the unique needs of that school district.
- Suffolk County Literacy Center
- Reading Recovery (New York University) - Reading Recovery is a short-term intervention of one-on-one tutoring for low-achieving first graders. Individual students receive a half hour lesson each school day for up to 20 weeks, with a specially trained Reading Recovery teacher. As soon as students can read within the average range of their class and demonstrate a self-extending system that ensures the ability to continue to achieve, the tutorial session is discontinued and a new student begins individual instruction. Reading Recovery was developed by New Zealand educator and researcher Dr. Marie Clay. It has been in the United States for more than 15 years, with more than 700,000 first graders participating.
- Designing, reviewing, evaluating and updating curricula - is an ongoing process wherein school district teams organize to create high quality curriculum products for classroom teachers.
- SED Information sessions - and help sessions are available as needed in response to new initiatives or requirements for school districts from SED.
- My Learning Plan - is an outstanding web based data management system. It permits districts to align goals for professional development electronically and even to maintain clear tracking of teacher data regarding workshops and courses as one of the components. On-line registration for teachers and the ability for districts to grant prior approval electronically for conferences and workshops are particularly valuable elements of this system. Please feel free to register for our Professional Development Opportunities workshops through My Learning Plan.
Curriculum Development
For information on the following programs please call (631) 244-4269.
- K-6 Science Program - supporting the Science 21 program by providing delivery, pickup of kits, professional development and instructional support.
- Project WISE - pairs students with scientists/scholars from SUNY Stony Brook. Students meet monthly throughout the school year and a summer session is also available.
- Naval/Air Force ROTC - operates Navy and Air Force Junior ROTC programs, located in local High Schools for students in grades 9-12.
- Gifted
& Enriched Education - offering a variety of programs for
students of all ages. All programs are accessed through local school
districts.
- Effective Schools Surveys - Seventeen different surveys are available, including a staff survey, a technology needs survey and student and parent surveys.
- Curriculum Development - Curriculum projects to help schools meet NYS standards are offered. ESBOCES supplies project leaders and coordinates production of finished documents. Program reviews are also available.
- Regional Scoring for NYS Tests - Regional scoring sessions are available for all NYS tests, including regents exams. Both large centralized and smaller local sessions are usually scheduled.
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