Professional Development for Educators

SMU has a distinguished history of offering a wide variety of special workshops, lectures, and seminars that address issues of contemporary social and scholarly interest to teachers and school administrators. Most are noncredit, but some offer graduate or undergraduate credit.  Regular offerings include:

• Advanced Placement Program* Summer Institute
• Music Educators Summer Workshops
• Strategies for Accommodating & Teaching ESL Students in Diverse Classrooms
• Quarknet Workshop on High-Energy Particle Physics
• Gifted Lecture Series
• A World in Motion: Science Skills & Engineering Energy for Teachers
• Teachers As Scholars (TAS)
• Brown Bag Lunch Series

"Occasional" workshops and seminars address topics such as:

• Mastering TAKS for TAAS social studies
• Physical science and technology projects
• Webmastering
• Special content-area workshops
• Montessori workshops
• Art
• Conflict resolution in the school setting
• Using instructional technology to facilitate learning
• Engineering and computer science programs

For additional information on any of the Professional Development for Educators programs, please call 214-768-2346 or e-mail teacher@smu.edu.