StoryStarter - Teacher Workshop 2017

LEGO Education StoryStarter makes literacy tangible and creates a confident and engaged storytellers and writers. As a core platform for language arts learning, the Storyteller solution meets Common Core Standards and supports elementary teachers with a unique combination of the LEGO bricks, curriculum, easy-to-use software, and professional guidance and inspiration. Educators can encourage students to be engaged and confident writers and storytellers - enabling all students to succeed within language arts.

Subject: Literacy, 2nd-5th grade
Teachers: Language Arts teachers
Schedule: Monday, July 17, 2017, 10:00am-4:00pm
Cost: $95 (members), $100 (non-members) / max capacity 10

Course Content: This program will help you integrate StoryStarter into your daily teaching and will allow you to choose from the 24 hands-on classroom activities from the StoryStarter Core Curriculum, teaching you how to familiarize yourself with the activities and product. By the end of the program, we hope you'll be inspired to use StoryStarter for anything from 5-10 minute short student build exercises to longer term project work, for groups and individuals, all as part of an engaging classroom experience.

Learning Outcomes

• Help your students to structure their stories, develop collaborative skills, and write and present their work with confidence, via an introduction to StoryStarter and inspiration as to how it can spark your students' imaginations.
• Come familiar with the brick set, the curriculum and the StoryVisualizer software through hands-on practical activities.
• Develop best practices on classroom management with help from our expert advisors.
• Reach clear learning objectives, via targeted activities and lesson plans.
• Link the program content to your local and national curriculum plans, by discussing StoryStarter in relation to your daily teaching.