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Spring Education Conference 2025

Save the date for the 2025 UFT Spring Education Conference. Registration will be available shortly.

Create GIFs with Apple Keynote: Holiday Edition

Celebrate the holidays by creating fun and festive GIFs with Keynote on your iPad! In this workshop, you'll learn how to use Keynote's basic tools to design simple, animated GIFs that students can customize and share. We'll cover how to combine shapes, images and simple transitions to create engaging holiday-themed GIFs. Perfect for adding a creative touch to your holiday lessons - no design experience needed, just an iPad and a festive spirit!

Bringing Learning to Life with Augmented Reality: Using Apple's Composer in the Classroom

In this workshop, discover how to use Apple's Reality Composer on iPad to create interactive 3D augmented reality experiences for your students. Learn how to place 3D objects, add animations and build engaging lessons that bring your curriculum to life through augmented reality. No prior coding experience is needed - just bring your iPad and your creativity! Perfect for teachers looking to integrate augmented reality into any subject area.

Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (MAP)

Register for a professional development workshop for social workers and psychologists. Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in children is becoming more prevalent. This lecture will address some underlying causes of ADHD and offer some alternative solutions to optimize children’s health. We will also discuss effective ways to offer suggestions to educators for working with their students. Participants will earn 2 CE hours upon completion of the course. After the course is attended in full and the evaluation is complete, a signed certificate of completion will be emailed participants.

Wellness Overview (MAP)

Register for a professional development workshop for social workers and psychologists. There has been an increase in interest in and awareness of holistic medicine and wellness and its beneficial place in our education and health care system. This is an introductory class on all aspects of holistic medicine and how mental health practitioners might use its various modalities to optimize and understand their health and that of their clients. Parts of this workshop will focus on how educators can utilize this process with their students. Participants will earn 2 CE hours upon completion of the course. After the course is attended in full and the evaluation is complete, a signed certificate of completion will be emailed participants.

 

Obtaining required CTLE credits

The New York State Board of Regents requires certain teachers and paraprofessionals to collect and track professional learning credits called CTLE hours to maintain their state certifications. The following Q&A will help you learn more about these...

Meeting the needs of diverse learners

Given the city’s diverse student population, a pressing issue for educators has been how to differentiate instruction to reach all students using one of the new reading curriculum programs.

Getting reading down to a science

UFT President Michael Mulgrew oversaw a panel of UFT Teacher Center literacy district coaches who discussed the progress and pitfalls of Phase 1 of the rollout of new phonics-based literacy curricula in 15 New York City districts.

UFT provides support for phonics-based curricula

Hundreds of UFT members took advantage of a free UFT Teacher Center course on the science of reading in July. The course, which combined in-person and virtual learning, was part of the union’s effort to support educators as the Department of...

Changing how we teach kids to read

UFT Vice President for Education Mary Vaccaro writes that the DOE will require the use of one of three evidence-based literacy programs grounded in phonics in all elementary schools by September 2024. The UFT Teacher Center is committed to doing...