Learn New Teaching Methods from Those Leading the Way

As part of its mission to provide teachers access to innovative resources, Golden Apple offers workshops and seminars that bring successful teaching methods alive. The workshops encourage teachers to attain ever-higher levels of excellence.

Current Offerings


Teachers of Tomorrow


Do you want to be a teacher? Do you want to be a better teacher? Join us for an afternoon of exploring the teaching profession and developing enhanced teaching skills. Learn about:
  • Benefits of teaching
  • Connecting with other teachers
  • Getting started
  • Scholarships
  • Building a caring classroom
  • Teaching in a school of need
  • Service learning
  • The future of teaching
  • ...and much more

Hosted by Golden Apple Award-winning teachers, this free workshop is geared toward high school juniors, seniors and their parents, college freshmen and sophomores, and first and second year teachers. The date for the 2010 conference has not yet been confirmed. Check back in the summer of 2010 for more details.

Science Workshop

The Golden Apple Summer Science Workshop offers elementary and middle school teachers a rich, fun-filled week of inquiry based science, complete with activities, resources for the classroom and engaging ways to tie classroom instruction to the Illinois State Goals for Science.

Check back for information about the 2010 workshop. Visit the workshop website for more information.

CORE

CORE, the Center for Ongoing Renewal and Enrichment, provides professional development and personal mentoring for Golden Apple Scholars and their colleagues who have completed their student teaching. Up to 100 teachers attend the annual conference. CORE 2010 will be held July 27-30 at Saint Xavier University in Chicago. Check back for more information and to register for the 2010 CORE conference.

For more information on CORE, contact Sister Raeleen Sweeney, Scholars Program Assistant Director: CORE.





Previously Offered Workshops


Storytelling Workshop

Teachers from around the Chicago area come together at the Chicago History Museum and the National Museum of Mexican Art to learn how to create and tell stories within the context of Mexican culture and history. This two-week workshop is particularly recommended for teachers who work with students of Mexican heritage and want to use their students' cultural background to engage them in reading, writing, social studies and art, among other subjects. Click here for a fact sheet.


Note: This workshop will not be offered in Summer 2009


Digital Storytelling

The Digital Storytelling workshop teaches educators how to use digital storytelling techniques in their classrooms and how to adapt them to their schools' technological capacity. In this hands-on workshop teachers create digital stories that tell about their experiences as teachers. Stories are featured on Golden Apple's Teaching Excellence Network Web site. Click here to see last year's brochure.


Note: This workshop will not be offered in Summer 2009