Continuing Professional Development Workshops

The Keystone Teachers Association is an Approved Act 48 Provider of the Pennsylvania Department of Education. 

Please contact KEYTA to schedule a workshop at

 info@keyta.org or 877-33-KEYTA

Currently Available Workshops

The Big “R” Responsibility: Educators will leave the seminar with a clear resolve to promote student responsibility and many new solutions and strategies to assist them in promoting responsible students. (6 hrs. of Act 48 Credit)

Applied Grammar:  Applied Grammar is a method of teaching grammar as a tool to improve writing. Teachers would learn strategies that weave higher order thinking skills with engaging repetition and review into lessons that teach grammar within the context of and for the purpose of writing.  This method drastically improves retention of the concepts and application within written work.   (6 hrs. of Act 48 Credit)

Curriculum Management: Part 1 - Teachers will be taken through a step by step procedure to help them organize and prioritize standards and curriculum into yearly, quarterly and weekly plans. (3.5 hrs. of Act 48 Credit)

Part 2 – Teachers would then learn what to do if for some reason the class has fallen behind so that the most important concepts are taught and mastered. (2 hrs. of Act 48 Credit)

Motivational Strategies: Teachers will be given a list of strategies categorized by student difficulty which will help them to motivate individual students. Also, a list of classroom motivational strategies for the problem class.  A full explanation for each strategy will be given.  Teachers will be given specific situations and develop a motivational plan for each. (3.5 hrs. of Act 48 Credit)

Teaching Your Students Study Skills: Educators will come away with a list of ways to deliberately teach study skills to their students within the context of their lesson plans. Teachers will design a classroom poster of the study skills and create a plan for using the list in at least one subject area. (3.5 hrs. of Act 48 Credit)

Survival Skills for Teachers: Teachers will learn to recognize when their stress level becomes dangerous and how to isolate the stressors. Teachers will learn strategies for handling the stresses and demands placed on them in today’s educational system. 

(3.5 hrs. of Act 48 Credit)

**The Keystone Teachers Association is a 501(c)(6) non-profit professional trade association

   incorporated for the purpose of providing support and services to Pennsylvania educators.

   KEYTA is not a labor union, and therefore, our presence in the public school system does not

   constitute an unfair labor act as a competing organization to any local, state or national union.