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Strawberry Fields of Learning (Kemah Campus)
902 Marina Bay Dr.
Kemah, TX 77565
Our Teach BIG Conference Center and Retreat in Kemah, TX, boasts of quality content training and pampering that compares to a resort getaway! Be ready to receive the Language Arts training of a career, all the while enjoying complimentary chocolate covered strawberries, homemade milkshakes, and snow cones. Don’t forget to enjoy one of our many photo booths to show the teachers back home that you are partaking in the best and most interACTIVE inservice EVER!
Our Tap and Think Reading features an incredible, brain-based method for comprehension and recalling reading selections. At each grade level, participants will experience concrete aspects of comprehension including: author’s purpose, author’s perspective, elements of literature, literary devices, and emotional changes/growth. In addition, higher level, abstract concepts will be covered. Teachers will explore new strategies and ways of looking at inferencing, summarizing, main idea, and theme. They will become even more aware of the question-based terminology by applying strategies to mock assessment passages. Participants will see just how connected reading and writing truly are!
Online Virtual Institute Courses COMING SOON!!
At the PK-2 level, teachers will experience Literary Foundations and Expository curriculum. They will walk away with tactile-kinesthetic strategies for Narrative, Poetry, Letter, Expository, and Research writing. Grades 3-8 will participate in our BRAND NEW Expository Inservice days. Teachers will dive into expository prompts, introductions, development, transitions and conclusions beyond anything they’ve seen before! Teachers grades 9-12 will explore Expository and Persuasive writing. Throughout our program, students will explore logos, pathos, and ethos rationale. Additionally, they will cover expository and persuasive compositions from prompt to product using brain-based games and activities.
Online Virtual Institute Courses COMING SOON!!
At each grade level, teachers will tackle the objective portion of the assessment. Through grade-level appropriate content, participants will experience parts of speech and grammar rules through brain-based games and activities. They will explore: Nouns, Pronouns, Verbs, Adjectives, Prepositions, Adverbs, Punctuation, Capitalization, Commas, and more! Furthermore, this seminar goes on to address sentence structure, word usage, and sentence quality as students become R.O.C.K. stars! Participants will leave with tangible strategies that will aid in students not only preparing for assessment time, but also for their lifetime.
Online Virtual Institute Courses COMING SOON!!
Assessment changes are coming! Are you ready?!? Introducing Raising the B.A.R.R. (Brief Answer Reading Responses)! This K-5 seminar will focus on the vertical alignment from the beginning by including grades K-5 in one room. Participants will experience-
July 28-31, 2020 ***FULL***
Strawberry Fields of Learning (Kemah Campus)
902 Marina Bay Dr.
Kemah, TX 77565
8:00-8:30 Registration and Breakfast
8:30-11:30 Morning Session
11:30-1:00 Lunch on your own
1:00-3:30 Afternoon Session
*** SUMMER INSTITUTES ONLY will have small lunch break on Fridays and will release at 1:00 that day
(Each of the following said they would honor state and/or government rate based on occupancy. Therefore, when you make your reservations be sure and ask.)
Spring Hill Suites
(Gives a special rate if you tell them you're with Teach BIG!)
2120 E NASA Pkwy
Seabrook, TX 77586
281-474-3456
Holiday Inn Express & Suites
2710 E NASA Pkwy
Seabrook, TX 77586
877-495-2843
Holiday Inn Kemah
805 Harris Ave.
Kemah, TX 77565
281-334-0003
Quality Inn & Suites
2720 E NASA Pkwy
Seabrook, TX 77586
281-326-7200
Hilton Houston NASA Clear Lake
3000 E NASA Pkwy
Houston, TX 77058
281-333-9300