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August 14, 2018
Fr. Demetrius Thomas, OSB and Br. William McMillan, OSB, who will be teaching at Delbarton School this academic year, are participating in the New Jersey Association of Independent Schools (NJAIS) 2018 Instructional Skills Workshop.
Veteran educators John Platt, former Head of the English Department and Peer Leadership Program at The Pingry School, and Norman LaValette, current Head of the Department of Modern and Classical Languages as well as a teacher of German at The Pingry School, are co-directing the program, which drew about 70 teachers this year and is taking place at The Pingry School in Basking Ridge over four days from 9am-3pm each day.
Based on New Jersey’s Academy for the Advancement of Teaching and Management Program, with a special focus on independent school teaching, this workshop is designed to define and demonstrate effective teaching skills for independent school educators, allows teachers and administrators to identify cause-and-effect relationships between teaching and learning, and gives them a profoundly effective repertoire of techniques and strategies that can be used in planning and delivering instruction. The sessions review the principles of learning and offer suggestions for translating the latest 21st century research into practical classroom applications.