Bio
Erin Hillier is dedicated to helping teachers understand and engage with 21st century students. In her decade-long teaching career, she has worked with every level of learner--from kindergarten through college--and has experience with both core classroom as well as fine arts education. She has presented both regionally and nationally on 21st century teaching strategies, and has published articles and resources for the Music Educators Journal and the National Association for Music Education. Erin lives in Overland Park, KS with her husband and two daughters.
Mastering the Millennial Mindset: Bridging the Gap Between Tradition and Innovation
Today’s students have been described as impatient, unmotivated, and disinterested in learning. In reality, Millennials desperately want to learn, but simply have evolved past the Industrial Age instructional model that is familiar and comfortable for teachers. This presentation will provide and in-depth background of how Millennials think, work, and view the world, along with strategies to tailor lessons, assessments, and classroom management to accommodate their unique learning styles and preferences.
SAMR-cize It! Technology Tweaks for Lessons and Assessments
The SAMR model isn’t just another educational acronym to store away for later; it’s a method of seeing how teaching digitally might revolutionize your classroom and instructional practice. Based on the four levels of technology integration: Substitution, Augmentation, Modification, and Redefinition, SAMR allows teachers to decide how, and to what extent, they would like to enhance their lessons and assessments to meet the needs of 21st century students. This presentation also includes a work and coaching session to help you apply the SAMR model to existing lessons.
Assess and De-Stress: A Standards-Referenced Approach to Grading
Endless piles of worksheets, gradebooks, and percentages have gone the way of the rotary phone and the cassette tape. 21st century teachers are simply too busy handling the demands of a rigorous curriculum and the ever-changing needs of students to rely on older models of assessment and data collection. In this presentation, we discuss how to use Robert Marzano’s standards-referenced reporting model to create streamlined assessment banks that truly focus on student learning, and how to motivate and empower students to take control of their own grades through goal-setting and data collection. This presentation also includes a work and coaching session to help you apply the principles of standards-referenced reporting to existing lessons and assessments.
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(The workshops above can be tweaked for specials if desired, but the ones on the second page are specifically specials-focused)
Reading, ‘Riting, and...Rope Climbing? Easy ELA and Math Integrations for the Special Area Classrooms
Have you been caught off guard when an administrator has asked for student writing samples from your specials class? Are you asked to integrate literacy and math into your classroom? This presentation will help you pinpoint the reading and math instruction already happening in your curriculum, as well as providing efficient and effective strategies to supplement core instruction while still maintaining the integrity of your program.
Fitting It All In: Streamlining Your Specials Curriculum For Maximum Learning
Regardless of where or what discipline you teach, the primary challenge of every special teacher is fitting packed curriculum into a limited amount of time. This presentation will introduce the concepts of power standards and learning targets to help pare down your specials curriculum into its most essential concepts and lessons in order to maximize contact time with students and to create a rigorous, but attainable, curriculum for all learners.
Erin Hillier is dedicated to helping teachers understand and engage with 21st century students. In her decade-long teaching career, she has worked with every level of learner--from kindergarten through college--and has experience with both core classroom as well as fine arts education. She has presented both regionally and nationally on 21st century teaching strategies, and has published articles and resources for the Music Educators Journal and the National Association for Music Education. Erin lives in Overland Park, KS with her husband and two daughters.
Mastering the Millennial Mindset: Bridging the Gap Between Tradition and Innovation
Today’s students have been described as impatient, unmotivated, and disinterested in learning. In reality, Millennials desperately want to learn, but simply have evolved past the Industrial Age instructional model that is familiar and comfortable for teachers. This presentation will provide and in-depth background of how Millennials think, work, and view the world, along with strategies to tailor lessons, assessments, and classroom management to accommodate their unique learning styles and preferences.
SAMR-cize It! Technology Tweaks for Lessons and Assessments
The SAMR model isn’t just another educational acronym to store away for later; it’s a method of seeing how teaching digitally might revolutionize your classroom and instructional practice. Based on the four levels of technology integration: Substitution, Augmentation, Modification, and Redefinition, SAMR allows teachers to decide how, and to what extent, they would like to enhance their lessons and assessments to meet the needs of 21st century students. This presentation also includes a work and coaching session to help you apply the SAMR model to existing lessons.
Assess and De-Stress: A Standards-Referenced Approach to Grading
Endless piles of worksheets, gradebooks, and percentages have gone the way of the rotary phone and the cassette tape. 21st century teachers are simply too busy handling the demands of a rigorous curriculum and the ever-changing needs of students to rely on older models of assessment and data collection. In this presentation, we discuss how to use Robert Marzano’s standards-referenced reporting model to create streamlined assessment banks that truly focus on student learning, and how to motivate and empower students to take control of their own grades through goal-setting and data collection. This presentation also includes a work and coaching session to help you apply the principles of standards-referenced reporting to existing lessons and assessments.
<hr>
(The workshops above can be tweaked for specials if desired, but the ones on the second page are specifically specials-focused)
Reading, ‘Riting, and...Rope Climbing? Easy ELA and Math Integrations for the Special Area Classrooms
Have you been caught off guard when an administrator has asked for student writing samples from your specials class? Are you asked to integrate literacy and math into your classroom? This presentation will help you pinpoint the reading and math instruction already happening in your curriculum, as well as providing efficient and effective strategies to supplement core instruction while still maintaining the integrity of your program.
Fitting It All In: Streamlining Your Specials Curriculum For Maximum Learning
Regardless of where or what discipline you teach, the primary challenge of every special teacher is fitting packed curriculum into a limited amount of time. This presentation will introduce the concepts of power standards and learning targets to help pare down your specials curriculum into its most essential concepts and lessons in order to maximize contact time with students and to create a rigorous, but attainable, curriculum for all learners.
