Enhance Your Teaching 
With Webquests

Overview

Teachers, administrators, and parents; you will leave our five-day summer workshop, Enhance Your Teaching with Webquests, begging your students to come back early so you can implement your new webquests. Participants begin by exploring pre-packaged webquests to learn more about the possibilities that webquests provide for a clear, practical scaffolding to apply the current instructional practices of constructivism, collaborative learning, critical-thinking, and authentic assessment. Then, you will be are guided through the process of transforming one of your own units into a webquest. You will leave with a completed webquest and a sense of pride in your accomplishments.

Who Should Attend

Who Should Attend?: K-12 Educators (25 person limit)
Levels of Expertise: General knowledge of the Internet
Length: 5 Day Summer Institute

Ten Key Benefits of Attending

1. Learn How to Extend and Enrich Your Existing Curriculum: The strategies taught in this seminar do not require drastic changes in your current program. Rather, your instructional program can be extended and enriched using the outstanding strategies shared in this seminar.

2. Turn Current Educational Research into Practical Classroom Uses: Webquests provide a clear, practical scaffolding to apply the current instructional practices of constructivism, collaborative learning, and critical-thinking to your lessons.

3. Meet the State Standards with your Favorite Lessons: Learn how you can develop a Webquest that takes a project that you currently love to do with your kids, and ensures that it encompasses your curriculum frameworks.

4. Utilize the Internet to Create Interest, Involvement and Authentic Learning: You can find and use the latest online resources to provide your students with quality, current information that meets all their reading levels and learning styles (Multiple Intelligences.) 

5. Increase Your Teaching Options: Learn innovative strategies for strengthening students' skills in the key areas of problem solving, reasoning and communication.

6. Provide Your Students With Access to Quality Information: Find great Internet resources through timesaving search techniques. Students spend more time interpreting and analyzing information.

7. Active Learning Strategies to Boost Student Interaction, Interest and Learning: Outstanding strategies and techniques that foster highly effective, active, hands-on learning in your classroom.

8. Incorporate Collaborative Learning Strategies Ideally Suited to Learning: You'll learn cooperative learning strategies and techniques ideally suited for Elementary and Middle Schools.

9. Increase Your Students' Interest and Achievement: Learn how you can innovatively use technology and everyday resources to develop your Webquest for all learning styles. 

10. Use Authentic Assessment Tools: Use rubrics to authentically assess you student's work. 

Facility Requirements

A computer with Internet access for each participant 
Projection system for the instructor

Contact workshops@iwebquest.com to discuss setting up a workshop or a seminar
that meets the needs of your school or district.