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Participants will see live demonstrations of curriculum and SLO alignments. They’ll be introduced to tools designed to aid in the alignment process, after which they’ll participate in their own content-focused alignments. On completion, all will benefit from the deep process of examination, evaluation, reflection and action.
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Resources: SAT Vocabulary Through Drama
Learning Centers: From Shared to Independent Practice 
Learning About People of the American Revolution Through Facebook
Understanding the key concepts of the Common Core Standards will aid participants in developing facility with the curriculum it aligns to. Participants will become familiar with the key CCSS concepts specific to their content areas, and then link them to relevant aspects of discipline-specific curriculum. Participants will be introduced to a host of other resources to aid in future curriculum alignment.
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Resources: Making the Reading Process Visible Through Performance Assessment
Differentiating the Reading Experience for Students
Careful alignment of instructional material as it works into student learning objectives will make the difference in student achievement, as long as those that do the aligning are also doing the teaching! Meaningful instruction begins with careful instructional alignment.
Critical literacy isn't about reading critically. It is a process by which students read through and beyond text to analyze, integrate and become transformational. Participants in this e-course will learn the strategies that teach effective questioning as prior knowledge leverages with new information through written and spoken responses to literature. Teachers learn to facilitate critical thinking among their students, beginning with an introduction to the theory behind critical literacy, its authors and the research that drives proven classroom success. Participants will learn new strategies for teaching and facilitating critical literacies through reading, writing, questioning and researching with a new lens.
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Participants will learn how to plan instruction with critical literacy as a background objective. Resources: Critical Media Literacy: Commercial AdvertisingCritical Media Literacy: TV ProgramsThe Critical Role of New LiteraciesShared Discussion With Amazing Grace
The role and relevance of diagnostic assessments and their importance as scaffolding tools are discussed in this e-course, along with their diagnostic, prescriptive implications. Identification of students’ strengths and weaknesses as they inform focused instructional strategy for improved teaching is the higher goal in this engaging workshop.
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As of the all of 2013, teachers in New York State will be evalutaed by specific and measurable student learning objectives in order to measure 20 percent growth target. The expectations for and of SLO development will be outlined and discussed at length in this e-course. State SLO resources will also be evaluated, with participants exploring and practicing with research-based resources that lead to the successful development of effective, measurable student learning objectives.
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Assessment of learning, or for learning? Balancing summative and formative assessments demands a standards-aligned curriculum for effective instruction. Participants in this e-course will understand how to effectively monitor student learning, structure requisite assessment criteria, and teach to support a rapid turnaround of results.
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Assessment of learning or for learning invokes a balance of summative, interim and formative assessments through the use of standards-aligned curriculum and instruction. Participants in this e-course will understand how to effectively monitor student learning, structure requisite assessment criteria, and teach to support a rapid turnaround of results.
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Assessment of learning or for learning? Balanced, summative interim and formative assessments will be evaluated for CCSS application in this e-course. Participants will understand how to effectively monitor student learning, structure requisite assessment criteria, and teach to support a rapid turnaround of results.
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Science has taken educational research to new levels as applied to teaching and learning. Culling cognitive science that links to higher-order cognition and multiple brain-based literacy approach, participants will acquire a repertoire of authentic assessment tools and scaffolding strategy to teach using brain-friendly instructional approaches. Other tools include strategy guides, scaffolding charts, rubrics and thinking maps for immediate application.
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Research: Fischer & Immordino-Yang, Invernizzi, Justice, Landmm & Booker, Martinez, Sousa, Wolfe among others.
Resources: Discovering Memory: Li Young Lee's Poem "Mnemomic" 
Using the Check and Line Method to Enhance Reading Comprehension
Common Core State Standards: Grades 6-12: RL1-RL6, W1-W10, SL1-SL4, L4, L6, WHST1, WHST4-5, WHST7-10, RH1, RH4-RH6, RH8-RH10
Science has taken educational research to new levels as applied to teaching and learning. Culling cognitive science that links to higher-order cognition and multiple brain-based literacy approach, participants will acquire a repertoire of authentic assessment tools and scaffolding strategy to teach using brain-friendly instructional approaches. Other tools include strategy guides, scaffolding charts, rubrics and thinking maps for immediate application.
Course objectives:
Research: Fischer & Immordino-Yang, Invernizzi, Justice, Landmm & Booker, Martinez, Sousa, Wolfe among others.
Resources: Discovering Memory: Li Young Lee's Poem "Mnemomic" Using the Check and Line Method to Enhance Reading Comprehension
Common Core State Standards: Grades 6-12: RL1-RL6, W1-W10, SL1-SL4, L4, L6, WHST1, WHST4-5, WHST7-10, RH1, RH4-RH6, RH8-RH10
In this e-course, participants will examine effective strategy for reading comprehension in intermediate grades, and how it scaffolds across content, grade-level, and reading/writing genre. Approaches include text structure, reciprocal teaching, use of graphic organizers, literature webbing, and building background knowledge through the use of questioning. All strategies under study will include tools for implementation.
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Research: Allington, Enrau, Stahl, Stahl & Fairbanks, Vacca & Vacca among others.
Resources:Guided Comprehension...Using Semantic Feature Analysis 
Building Reading Comprehension Through Think-AloudsMind Pictures: Strategies That Enhance Mental Imagery
Common Core State Standards: Grades 6-12: RL1-RL6, RL9, RL10, RH1, RH2, RL4-RL10, RST1, RST2, RST5-RST10
The building blocks to effective reading comprehension begins in the primary grades with explicit instruction, teacher modeling and lots of guided practice. Under this umbrella, participants will learn to teach reading comprehension effectively through strategy that builds student capacity. Story structure, graphic representation, reciprocal questioning, retelling and summarizing are some of the approaches under study. All strategies overviewed will include tools for implementation.
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Research: Allington, Enrau, Stahl & Fairbanks, Vacca & Vacca among others.
Resources: Developing Comprehension Using Thank You Mr. FalkerReading Comprehension Using Inference and Comparison Guided Comprehension...Semantic Feature Analysis
Common Core State Standards:Grades K-5: RF1, RF2, RF4, RI1-RI4, RI7-10, RL2-RL4, RL6, RL7, RL9, RL10
Building reading muscle requires training, perseverance, and constant progress monitoring. Participants will review intervention strategies that include timely response to intervention focused on strength and strategy. Strategic and differentiated interventions reviewed and practiced with will include cognitive questioning, vocabulary development, peer and teacher feedback, use of graphic organizers and reflective self-monitoring.
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Research: Anderson, Beers, Marzano, Ravitch, Ruckdeschel, Strickland and Tomlinson among others.
Supportive Resources: Bilingual Spoken Word PoetrySupporting Vocabulary AcquisitionSpeech, Poetry, and Word PlayLiterature Circles: Roles and Responsibilities
Building reading muscle requires training, perseverance, and constant progress monitoring. Participants will review intervention strategies that include timely response to intervention focused on strength and strategy. Strategic and differentiated interventions reviewed and practiced with will include cognitive questioning, vocabulary development, peer and teacher feedback, use of graphic organizers and reflective self-monitoring.
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Research: Anderson, Beers, Marzano, Ravitch, Ruckdeschel, Strickland and Tomlinson among others.
Supportive Resources: Bilingual Spoken Word PoetrySupporting Vocabulary AcquisitionSpeech, Poetry, and Word PlayLiterature Circles: Roles and Responsibilities
Building reading muscle requires training, perseverance, and constant progress monitoring. Participants will review intervention strategies that include timely response to intervention focused on strength and strategy. Strategic and differentiated interventions reviewed and practiced with will include cognitive questioning, vocabulary development, peer and teacher feedback, use of graphic organizers and reflective self-monitoring.
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Research: Anderson, Beers, Marzano, Ravitch, Ruckdeschel, Strickland and Tomlinson among others.
Supportive Resources: Bilingual Spoken Word PoetrySupporting Vocabulary AcquisitionSpeech, Poetry, and Word PlayLiterature Circles: Roles and Responsibilities
The building of student grit is counterpart to the rigor and academic success that results of it - particularly when preparing students for college and career readiness. This e-course will focus on approaches that build perseverance, character and grit through trial and error learning, reflection on failure, building of mental stamina and strategies for self-control. The catalysts to character development that build student capacity, and ultimately the grit needed to succeed in the classroom and beyond, will take front and center.
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Research: Duckworth, Hoerr and Seligman among others.
Resources:Active Reading Using The Enormous WatermelonVocabulary Instruction Using a Virtual Moon TripBiography Project Persuasive Techniques in Advertising
Transferring literacy skills to subjects outside of English Language Arts is easily achieved when instruction is strategy-driven, explicit and consistently applied across subject areas. In this e-course, participants will focus on informational text and non-fiction essay writing across multiple subject areas. By analyzing non-fiction reading and writing in science and technical subjects, participants will understand and be able to resource supportive strategy for the consistent threading across content areas, genres, and learning styles. Tools for implementation and scaffolding will be abundant.
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Research: Beers, Heyrle, Probst, Reeves, Rief, Rothstein & Lauber, Ruckdeschel, VanTassel-Baska among others.
Resources:Science Update Podcasts 
Finding Science...Through Paired Readings Using Science Texts to Teach...NonfictionEngineering the Perfect Poem Using...STEM Evaluating the Validity of a Survey
Participants will become familiar with strategies and supportive tools that facilitate rich and structured reading, writing and follow-up discussion in multiple classroom settings. The higher order thinking skills of comparing, contrasting, analyzing, synthesizing and evaluating textual evidence as it works into larger written products will prepare e-course participants to teach students to cull ideas and build on those of others. Digital technologies that facilitate speaking and listening will also be introduced and explored.
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Research: Beers, Marzano, Molden, Martinez, Probst, Reif, Ruckdeschel, VanTassel-Baska among others.
Resources:Directed Listening-Thinking Activity for "The Tell Tale Heart" 
Weaving the Multigenre Web Oral Storytelling and Dramatization Audio Listening Practices
Participants will become familiar with strategies and supportive tools that facilitate rich and structured reading, writing and follow-up discussion in multiple classroom settings. The higher order thinking skills of comparing, contrasting, analyzing, synthesizing and evaluating textual evidence as it works into larger written products will prepare e-course participants to teach students to cull ideas and build on those of others. Digital technologies that facilitate speaking and listening will also be introduced and explored.
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Research: Beers, Marzano, Molden, Martinez, Probst, Reif, Ruckdeschel, VanTassel-Baska among others.
Resources:Directed Listening-Thinking Activity for "The Tell Tale Heart" Weaving the Multigenre Web Oral Storytelling and Dramatization Audio Listening Practices
Participants will learn strategies for teaching within planned flexible communication and collaboration models through formal presentations that employ a number of 21st century tools. Methods will also focus on oral communication and the interpersonal skills and tools that evaluate them.
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College and career readiness begins with the transfer of literacy skills across all subject areas. This is easily achieved when instruction is strategy-driven, explicit and consistently applied across content areas. Participation in this e-course will focus on non-fiction writing strategy across multiple subject areas. Participants will analyze genre, content, standards and teaching objectives to prepare for implementation. Tools that support all strategies will include resources, organizers, rubrics, checklists and more.
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Research: Allen, Beers, Davey, Marzano, Hattie, Routledge, Vacca & Vacca, VanTassel-Baska among others.
Resources:Teaching Summarizing With the Bio-cube Writing Effective Letters to the EditorRAFT Writing TemplateFrom Friedan Forward-Considering a Feminist Perspective
The social-emotional learning that leads to academic success has strong links to character development. This e-course will analyze the research, theory and strategy behind effective classroom management as it feeds high student engagement and a motivated classroom.
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Research: Collaborative for Academic, Social and Emotional Learning (CASEL), Center for Social Emotional Education (CSEE), Glasser and Costa among others.
Resources:Taking Photos of Curious George A Musical Prompt: Postcards From the Concert Collaborating on a Class BookA Class Book and a Potluck Lunch
The social-emotional learning that leads to academic success has strong links to character development. This e-course will analyze the research, theory and strategy behind effective classroom management as it feeds high student engagement and a motivated classroom.
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Research: Collaborative for Academic, Social and Emotional Learning (CASEL), Center for Social Emotional Education (CSEE), Glasser and Costa among others.
Resources:Taking Photos of Curious George A Musical Prompt: Postcards From the Concert Collaborating on a Class BookA Class Book and a Potluck Lunch
While many students will develop their own methods to read complicated text, answer high-level questions and respond with written products, many do not. We now know there are numerous strategies to teach close reading with, all of them working in numerous ways to parcel through multiple layers of text complexity. From chunking to note-taking with purpose, participants will gain a repertoire of strategies with which to teach close reading.
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Educators learn what research-based peer review sounds like and looks like in the K-5 classroom; how to engage in effective peer exchange to include giving and receiving feedback, conducting teacher-to-student conferences, goal-setting and trouble shooting to build student capacity.Ancillary materials include rubrics, teacher modeling scripts, graphic organizers, feedback checklists, speaking prompts, writing prompts, and more.
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Research:Elbow, Kirby & Liner, Brewer, Melanie & Rhine among others.
Resources:Peer Review - a Strategy GuideIt's Too Loud in Here! Teamwork in the ClassroomPrompting RevisionImplementing the Writing Process
After unpacking grade and discipline-specific state and national standards, participants will be guided through the analysis and implementation of strategy as it works to further college and career readiness across multiple content areas. Exemplars, implementation guides, online and print resources will be evaluated as aids to curriculum development and teaching strategy as they further CCSS initiatives.
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Research: Calkins, Ehrenworth, Lehman, National Association for Gifted Children (NAGC), National Association for Special Education Teachers (NASET) and others.
Resources:Read Write Think Webbing ToolCommon Content Area Roots and AffixesReading With Purpose in the Content AreasSupporting Student Comprehension in Content Area Reading
From key idea and details to integration of knowledge and understanding, there will be no shortage of questioning strategies or the thinking stuff behind them in students how to learn for the Common Core.
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This workshop will take participants into deep realms of text analysis in fiction and non-fiction print. Participants will examine reading selection, questioning strategy, and leveling of strategy and resources for effective scaffolding and differentiation. Participants will learn about, and become familiar with, resources that determine text complexity, level libraries, take running records and use anecdotal data. Resources for vocabulary and second language learner support will also be examined.
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Research: Allington, Beers, Heyrle, Martinez, Probst, Reeves, Ruckdeschel, Nessel & Graham among others.
Resources:Publishing Student Reviews OnlineThe Middle School High Five: Strategies Can TriumphTextmasters: Shaking Up Textbook Reading in Science ClassroomsSupporting Student Comprehension in Content Area Reading
Participants will learn to analyze and evaluate fiction and non-fiction print by looking at text complexity, effective reading selection and methods for readability. Supportive materials for scaffolding and differentiation will also be evaluated as they align with resources for determining grade-level appropriateness. Leveled libraries, anecdotal and assessment data (including running records) will be examined for planning and instructional purposes. Multiple resources will include vocabulary strategies, readability tools, scaffolding organizers and other tools that offer differentiated support for multiple reading levels, struggling learners and ELLs.
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Research: Anderson, Beers, Baer & Invernizzi, Kirby, Pearson, Ravitch, Ruckdeschel, Strickland and Tomlinson among others.
Resources: Reading for Learning
Comprehension for Multimodal Texts in ScienceLiteracy + Math = Creative Connections in the Elementary ClassroomInquiry Charts
With a focus on expository writing, participants will cull the CCSS writing standards for their application to content-specific writing genre. In doing so, participants will level strategy and expectation with assignments as they align with state and national standards. Planning of performance writing tasks will take central focus as participants learn to strategically scaffold in order to close grade-level achievement gaps, along with meeting the performance task expectations of the Common Core.
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Research: Allen, Beers, Davey, Hattie, Marzano, Routledge, Ruckdeschel among others.
Resources: How to Teach Writing Like You Mean ItI-Search Process Reflection ChartHow to Encourage Higher Order Thinking
Neurons pass information along at speeds of up to 200 miles an hour. With this speed, there's no end to the brain-power students can harness, and the teacher has everything to do with it! Participants in this e-course will learn how to establish cognitive-friendly learning environments that aid in student retention while minimizing the stresses that pull them away from learning. Participants will leave this workshop with multiple takeaways for immediate, brain-friendly application.
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Research: Fisher & Immordino, Jensen, Kaufeld, Martinez, Wolfe among others.
Resources:The Feature Story: Fifteen Minutes (and 500 words) of Fame!Power NotesDiscovering Memory
Thanks to new advances in neuroscience, it is confirmed that changes in brain plasticity take place when art is introduced to a curriculum, with proven results in higher student achievement. Leveraging art and cognitive science with teaching and learning is easily achieved as participants learn to cultivate and nurture the creative "art brain" in students through learning environment, strategy and effective scaffolding technique. Participants will explore and experiment with cognitive learning theory as it informs rich and creative planning strategy and the differentiated curriculum that results of it.
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Research: Fisher & Immordino, Jensen, Kaufeld, Martinez and Wolfe among others.
Resources:Using Music and Art to Develop Vocabulary
A Trip to the Museum: From Picture to StoryFinding the Artist WithinBook Report Alternative: Hooking a Reader With a Book Cover
Through the examination of learners' cultural needs, along with developmental readiness, participants will become familiar with guidelines for appropriate textbook selection, web-based resources, and criteria for selection of responsive multicultural literature and related resources. Participants will expand their understanding of cultural responsiveness by examining models of research-based and differentiated literacy instruction proven to work for second language learners. In preparation for designing their own differentiated and responsive curriculum, the stages of writing development and the research-based methods that guide them will be examined.
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Research: Ariza, Fletcher & Portalupi, Mora-Flores and Peregoy among others.
Resources:Exploring Culture Through Art and Poetry
Promoting Cultural Values Through Alphabet BooksInvestigating Names to Explore Personal History and Cultural TraditionsExploring World Cultures Through Folk Tales
Goals are the natural outgrowth to data. Participants will come to understand the value and appreciate multiple forms of data as they feed rich goal setting, to include student learning objectives.
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Instructional decision-making hinges on variables that can change by the minute, the hour, and the student. The many forms that data take can inform rich instruction. It’s all about driving the right data to the right instructional strategy.
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Instructional coaching remains the most effective method for fostering and improving performance-based outcomes in schools. Through the power of data and peer accountability, participants will learn and practice with standards based educational coaching strategy before deeply entrenching it into practice. By understanding and practicing with the Ruckdeschel (2010) three-step cognitive coaching method, participants will learn how to design their own reflective coaching plan geared toward improved student achievement. Field tested tools for data collection and on-going practice and implementation are included in this e-course.
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Research: Ruckdeschel, Moran & Greenberg, Showers, VanDeWegh among others.
Resources: Goals Setting Checklist
Participants will explore the hybrid world of digital technologies and what it has to offer in learning tools and curriculum design. Aspects of study will include communication, research, development, and social educational networking in furtherance of teacher-student abilities to harness critical information in multiple and user-friendly formats. Participants will be introduced to, and practice with, the 21st century tools and resources that lead to effective curriculum design and hybrid instructional approaches that further CCSS 21st century digital literacies.
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Research and resources: Common Sense Media, ASCD, NCTE, IRA and Shanahan among others.
Resources:Expressing Understanding of Content Through Photography
Popular Culture Texts and Literacy LearningAnalyzing and Podcasting About Images of Oscar WildeDigital Word Detectives...Vocabulary with eBook Readers
Developing student learning objectives is one skill, evaluating their usefulness is another. Participants will learn to reflect on the quality of their student learning objectives. Once reflected on, they’ll use various tools (checklists, rubrics, strategy guides) to evaluate usefulness and classroom application as it flows into student performance.
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Participants will explore the essential ingredients that grow and scaffold good reading and writing effort. These ingredients will serve as models of strategy that works into curriculum design and implementation as they review lesson exemplars to plan with, analyze and reflect on. Research-based and field-tested strategy will reinforce the impact across all subject areas.
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Research and resources: National Writing Project, International Reading Association.
Resources:Learning Clubs
Blending Fiction and Non-Fiction to Improve Comprehension and WritingSupporting Student Comprehension in Content Area ReadingCreating ABC Books as Assessment
This e-course will introduce participants to assignments that move quickly from busy work, to learning tool. They'll learn the key components to effective instructional design that works into productive homework assignments. Participants will learn the difference between instructional and independent learning as it flows into homework versus busy work.
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Research: Allington, Cunningham & Stanovich, Guthrie & Humenick, Ruckdeschel, Vacca & Vacca among others.
Resources:Reading Signs and LabelsFollow the Word Trail: Organize a Treasure HuntRate This Movie! Hold a Viewing Party
Inquiry-based teaching and learning begins with strategy, commences with inquiry and ends with deep understanding. Participants in this e-course will learn the role of the facilitator while practicing with approaches geared to moving students to and through inquiry-based learning. Models taught will embrace the potential to engage student learning while fostering deep knowledge and understanding through hands-on curriculum, research-based methods and reflection.
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Students must find evidence before they can cite it. Participants will learn strategies that work students into text in order to wrap them around it. Common Core Standards require students to have "discipline literacy" with close reading, answer text-dependent questions, and write arguably within short, sustained research projects. All facets of these big shifts will be analyzed closely to understand the new pedagogies behind them.
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Students must find evidence before they can cite it, and the sooner they learn the easier it will be for them. Participants will learn strategies that work students into text in order to wrap them around it. All facets of these Common Core big shifts will be analyzed closely to understand the new K-5 applications for behind them.
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Project based learning, scaffolding of activities, facilitating peer feedback, setting goals and benchmarks are all actions that teach students new concepts about model citizenship in collaborative learning environments. Teachers will learn the steps needed to teach social responsibility and civic action with in the scope of the intermediate classroom, in keeping with the five traits of good citizenship.
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Research: Brooks, deRoche, Kagan, Leming, Smith among others.
Resources:Investigating the Holocaust: A Collaborative Inquiry ProjectScaffolding Comprehension Strategies Using Graphic OrganizersSearching for Gold: A Collaborative Inquiry ProjectImproving Student's Writing Using Online Workshops
Consistent use of reading and writing strategy across all content areas continues to turn around student performance, particularly those who struggle. Participants will finish this e-course with a compendium of strategies and tools to aid struggling learners with, using researched and field-tested implementation ideas.
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Research: Enrau, Hyerle, Reeves, Rothstein & Lauber, Nessel, Vacca & Vacca among others.
Resources:A High Interest Novel Helps Struggling ReadersSeuss and Silverstein: Posing Questions, Presenting PointsEngaging the Disengaged: Using Learning Clubs
Literature circles, flexible grouping - a combination that works perfectly into a differentiated literacy curriculum. With a proven record of success, literature circles continue to meet the needs of all learners. Participants in this e-course will learn the strategies that make literature circles successful, and how to effectively differentiate them in small groups and learning centers. Tools for implementation and informal assessment include checklists, role rubrics and a host of multisensory differentiation ideas.
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Research: Daniels, Kaufeld, Northey, Tomlinson among others.
Resources:Literature Circle Roles and Responsibilities 6-12Literature Circles Roles and Responsibilities 3-5 Online Literature CirclesLiterature Circles Roles Reframed: Reading as a Film CrewLiterature Circles: Getting Started
What are the classroom conditions that motivate and engage our 21st century learners? What are the assignments that cultivate curiosity and foster collaborative peer relationships? This e-course examines the research that supports engaging classroom talk, questioning and self-expression through strategy, technology and effective teacher facilitation. Participants will leave this e-course with multiple resources to aid in motivating and engaging the 21st century adolescent learners in their classrooms.
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Research: Glasser, Nelson, Molden among others.
Resources:Students as Creators: Exploring MultimediaThe Big Bad Wolf...Is This a Fact?Expressing Understanding of Content Through PhotographyExploring Disability Using Multimedia
All learners need motivation, and they need to feel successful; this is why motivating readers and writers is so important. Participants in this e-course will explore methods that work to motivate successful literacy effort: reading and writing clubs, literature selection, grouping, digital and print media and more. Participants will become familiar with multiple learning platforms that work to motivate and engage 21st century readers and writers while preparing them for college and career success.
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Research: Atwell, Graves, Jensen, Martinez, Nessel, Rief, Wiggins among others.
Resources:Motivating Young Writers Through Write-Talks
Using Greeting Cards to Motivate StudentsBuilding Complex Literacy Practices Through the ArtsTraveling the Road to Freedom Through Research and Historical Fiction
Research continues to show that providing students with multiple entry-points to learning improves performance. Tools and resources used to measure learning styles and learning preferences will be included in this rich and informative e-course focused on identifying and cultivating multiple intelligences in order to effectively plan for, and teach to, multiple learning styles.
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Research: Gardner, Marzano, Myers-Briggs and Kiersey among others.
Resources:Differentiating the Learning Experience for ChildrenExit SlipsStudent ContractingUsing the Jigsaw Cooperative Learning Technique
The social and emotional dynamics that underlie bullying will be examined closely for solution and strategies that work into solutions. Specific to classrooms, participants will glean new strategies for dealing with bullying behavior and creating safe, nurturing classrooms in all content areas.
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Research: Liepe-Levinson, K., & Levinson, M. H., Pace, B. G., Lowery, R. M., & Lamme, L. L., Quinn, K., Barone, B., Kearns, J., Stackhouse, S. A., & Zimmerman, M., Entenman & Hendricks, Langevin & Schwartz among others.
Participants will wrap their minds around and sink their teeth into the design principles of the Common Core as they work into content area standards, particularly in English language arts. Understanding will deepen as participants review and evaluate model curriculum, supportive tools and other classroom implementation resources as they align with the CCSS.
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Research: Resources will be drawn from a number of State Department of Education sites and other CCSS resources.
Resources:NYS Common Core ToolkitCommon Core Standards Initiative (a wiki)Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC)
Participants in this e-course will learn the nuts and bolts behind successful professional learning communities. The teacher and administrative roles within them will be studied as they work toward on-going maintenance and the data analysis that leads to improved student achievement. From vision to PLC mission, each participant will build an action plan specific to grade-level and subject-area PLC needs.
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Research: Dufour & Dufour and other resources.
Resources:Google site: Professional Learning CommunitiesWikipedia: Professional Learning Community Let's Talk Literacy
Based on the book Peer Coaching for Adolescent Writers, participants will learn the nuts and bolts of student-centered peer coaching. In addition, they will learn how to facilitate student feedback that works into productive and polished writing pieces. This research-based program has proven to build the capacity of student writers while improving performance on standardized assessments. All ancillary materials for immediate implementation.
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Research: Ruckdeschel, Moran & Greenberg, Showers, VanDeWeghe among others.
Resources:Peer Review: NarrativeReciprocal Revision: Making Peer Feedback MeaningfulPrompting Revision through Modeling and Written Conversations
Based on the Ruckdeschel (2010) peer coaching model, teachers learn to teach intervention students a modified method for giving and receiving peer feedback through goal-setting, problem-solving, and editing their own work as it feeds independent writing capacity. In addition, practices that directly impact struggling learners will be reviewed and practiced with as they apply to specific content areas. **This course includes a copy of the book Peer Coaching for Adolescent Writers, by Susan Ruckdeschel.
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Research: Ruckdeschel, Moran & Greenberg, Showers, VanDeWeghe
Resources:Peer Coaching Reproducibles
Based on the Ruckdeschel (2010) peer coaching method, participants will learn and practice with a proven protocol for communication, collaboration, and meeting specific and measurable learning objectives.Participants will practice with the protocols that lead to productive PLC work, and ultimately student achievement.
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Based on the Ruckdeschel (2010) peer coaching model, teachers learn to teach second language students a modified method for giving and receiving peer feedback through goal-setting, problem-solving, and editing their own work as it feeds independent writing capacity. In addition, practices that directly impact second language learners will be reviewed and practiced with as they apply to specific content areas. **This course includes a copy of the book Peer Coaching for Second Language Learners, by Susan Ruckdeschel.
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Research: Garralda, Kirby, Kirby & Liner, Moran & Greenberg, Ruckdeschel, Showers, VanDeWeghe, Yang, Badger & Yu among others.
Resources: Peer Coaching for ELLs: ResourcesPeer Review NarrativePeer Review Strategy GuidePeer Review With Perfection
Based on the Ruckdeschel (2010) peer coaching model, teachers learn to teach developing writers a modified and age appropriate method for giving and receiving peer feedback through goal-setting, problem-solving, and editing work as it feeds independent writing capacity - and it's never too early to begin! Research-based practices that directly impact young writers will be reviewed and practiced with as they apply to specific developmental milestones. **This course includes a copy of the book Conversations for Young Writers, by Susan Ruckdeschel.
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Research: Ferguson-Patrick, Fletcher & Portalupi, Kirty, Kirby & Liner, Medcalf, Meier, Moran & Greenberg, Showers, Topping & Yarrow among others.
Resources:Peer Coaching Young WritersPeer Coaching for ELLs: ResourcesPeer Review NarrativePeer Review Strategy GuidePeer Review With Perfection
Project based learning, scaffolding of activities, planning and drafting stages of the writing process, giving and receiving feedback, setting goals and benchmarks all teach students new concepts about collaboration and model citizenship. Teachers will learn the steps needed to teach responsibility and action within the scope of the collaborative, primary classroom in keeping with the five traits of good citizenship: respect, courage, responsibility, compassion and honesty in collaborative, social learning environments.
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Research: Blumenfeld, Krajcik, Marx, Soloway, Crawford among others.
Resources:Collaborative Stories 1: Prewriting and Drafting Collaborative Stories 2: RevisingExploring Letter-Sound Knowledge in the Primary ClassroomCreating a Class Pattern Book
Intentional, consistent and rigorous teaching of reading and writing strategy across all content areas has proven to increase student achievement. Using the 90/90/90 principled approach, participants will acquire a compendium of strategies and tools, both online and in print, to aid all learners across all content areas.
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Research: Enrau, Vacca & Vacca, Hyerle, Nessel, Rothstein & Lauber, Reeves and Tomlinson among others.
Resources: Get the Gist: A Summarizing Strategy for Any Content AreaSupporting Student ComprehensionScaffolding Summarization With Fishbone MappingInquiry Charts
Participants will be introduced to sound and scientifically proven research as it promotes literacy strategy across all content areas.They’ll learn the scaffolds behind them that aid students in the important transition process across all content areas.Intentional, consistent and rigorous teaching of reading and writing strategy as it continues to improve student achievement will engage the 90/90/90 principled approach. Participants completing this course will take away implementation tools that include graphic organizers, semantic maps, thinking aids, checklists, rubrics and more.
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Research: Enrau, Hyerle, Strickland, Nessel, Rothstein & Lauber, Reeves, Tomlinson among others.
Resources: Shared Spelling StrategiesBrochures: Writing for Audience and PurposeMaking Connections and Developing ComprehensionDesigning Effective Poster Presentations
Service based learning prepares students to learn by making meaningful connections to their community, taking civic responsibility and in solving real-world problems from the classroom. Participants will be introduced to resources that further service learning goals and move students from passive to active citizens through the use of partnership schools, universities, faith-based organizations and non-profits.
Course objectives:
Setting an academic goal for students as a baseline for performance is a benchmark that moves important growth targets forward. Participants will learn of SLOs and how they are written specifically for the ESL/bilingual and LD student population. Participants will gain familiarity with the process behind the careful creation of student learning objectives that fall within a 20 percent growth component of goals attainment.
Objectives:
Setting an academic goal for students as a baseline for performance is a benchmark that moves growth targets forward. Participants will become familiar with the process behind the careful development of student learning objectives as they align to the Common Core State Standards and the New York State Regents objectives. They'll learn how to set objectives that fall within a 20 percent growth component of goals attainment.
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Setting an academic goal for students as a baseline for performance is a benchmark that moves student growth targets forward. Participants will become familiar with the process behind the careful development of student learning objectives as they align science and social studies curriculum to the Common Core State Standards. More important, they'll learn how to set objectives that won't fail to fall within a 20 percent growth component of goals attainment.
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Participants will explore the rules of standard grammar, in written and spoken form as they work into teaching methods. Vocabulary will play a central role as participants learn the value of student choice, and the rules of craft that drive it.
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This e-course will delve into the smart development of instructional strategy through the culling and pulling together of resources. Participants will examine the research-based strategies that feed student learning objectives as they align with best instructional practices.
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Project based learning, careful scaffolding, and effective facilitation of collaboration all work into the building of student capacity that makes them capable, independent thinkers. Participants will develop facility with the leadership and scholarship methods needed to develop student capacity.
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Reading strategies will focus on skill and readability as participants are introduced to leveling systems that scaffold. Participants will be introduced to the scaffolding mechanisms needed to appropriately move up text complexity in multiple genres across all subject areas.
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The art of differentiation happens through design, re-design, and new strategy. Participants in this e-course will reinvent lessons using proven, effective methods for differentiation. They'll have opportunities to re-purpose lesson plans, understand readiness versus ability, and capitalize on brain plasticity to engage students through intellect and creativity. Learning profiles, interest surveys, cognitive-friendly learning environments, tiered questioning and student "hooks" for rigorous learning application are some of the takeaways to this e-course.
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Research: Kaufeld, Wolfe and Tomlinson among others.
Resources: Guided WritingWord Study With Henry and MudgeGraphic Map
Meeting old challenges with new ideas can be fraught with mind-boggling confusion if design principles aren't organized around cognition-friendly curriculum and pedagogy. Participants in this e-course will explore and experiment with learning theory that that embraces new design and cross curricular strategy that engages brain plasticity. Wrapping learner minds around new knowledge through engaging lessons and strategy that builds capacity are some of the goals of this e-course.
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Research: Immordino & Yang, Jensen, Kaufeld, Martinez and Wolfe among others.
Resources:Reporting on World War IIEngaging With Cause-and-Effect Relationships Through Creating Comic StripsAccountable Book Clubs: Focused Discussion
Focused exclusively on sound and proven writing strategy, participants will be introduced to research as it promotes writing strategy across all content areas.They’ll learn the scaffolds behind them that aid students in the important transition process across all other content areas.Intentional, consistent and rigorous teaching of reading and writing strategy as it continues to improve student achievement will engage the 90/90/90 principled approach.
Course Objectives:
Research: Enrau, Hyerle, Martinez, Reeves, Vacca & Vacca among others.
Resources:Interactive Language Practice for English Language LearnersE-Pals Around the World The Literature Circle: Reading Like a Writer
Understanding the key concepts of the Common Core Standards will aid participants in developing facility with the curriculum it aligns to. Participants will become familiar with the key CCSS concepts specific to their content areas, and then link them to relevant aspects of discipline-specific curriculum. Participants will be introduced to a host of other resources to aid in future curriculum alignment.
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Using a number of tools and resources, participants will develop facility and skill with the process of CCSS curriculum alignment.
Careful alignment of instructional material as it works into student learning objectives will make the difference in student achievement, as long as those that do the aligning are also doing the teaching! Meaningful instruction begins with careful instructional alignment.
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Participants will learn to access and use tools that aid in SLO alignment.
As of the all of 2013, teachers in New York State will be evaluated by specific and measurable student learning objectives in order to measure 20 percent growth target. The expectations for and of SLO development will be outlined and discussed at length in this e-course. State SLO resources will also be evaluated, with participants exploring and practicing with research-based resources that lead to the successful development of effective, measurable student learning objectives.
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Participants will practice with and begin the development of their own SLOs.
Vocabulary Instruction Using a Virtual Moon TripBiography Project Persuasive Techniques in AdvertisingFinding Science...Through Paired Readings Using Science Texts to Teach...NonfictionEngineering the Perfect Poem Using...STEM Evaluating the Validity of a SurveyWeaving the Multigenre Web Oral Storytelling and Dramatization Audio Listening Practices Literacy Centers: Getting Started Using Prediction Strategies With Literature Literacy Mystery Boxes Writing Effective Letters to the EditorRAFT Writing TemplateFrom Friedan Forward-Considering a Feminist Perspective While many students will develop their own methods to read complicated text, answer high-level questions and respond with written products, many do not. We now know there are numerous strategies to teach close reading with, all of them working in numerous ways to parcel through multiple layers of text complexity. From chunking to note-taking with purpose, participants will gain a repertoire of strategies with which to teach close reading.
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Participants will gain new strategies for teaching close reading to students
After unpacking grade and discipline-specific state and national standards, participants will be guided through the analysis and implementation of strategy as it works to further college and career readiness across multiple content areas. Exemplars, implementation guides, online and print resources will be evaluated as aids to curriculum development and teaching strategy as they further CCSS initiatives.
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Research: Calkins, Ehrenworth, Lehman, National Association for Gifted Children (NAGC), National Association for Special Education Teachers (NASET) and others.
Resources:Read Write Think Webbing ToolCommon Content Area Roots and AffixesReading With Purpose in the Content AreasSupporting Student Comprehension in Content Area Reading
From key idea and details to integration of knowledge and understanding, there will be no shortage of questioning strategies or the thinking stuff behind them in students how to learn for the Common Core.
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Participants will learn how to question in order to teach to the rigorous expectations of the National Common Core.
The Middle School High Five: Strategies Can TriumphTextmasters: Shaking Up Textbook Reading in Science ClassroomsSupporting Student Comprehension in Content Area ReadingComprehension for Multimodal Texts in ScienceLiteracy + Math = Creative Connections in the Elementary ClassroomInquiry ChartsI-Search Process Reflection ChartHow to Encourage Higher Order ThinkingDeveloping student learning objectives is one skill, evaluating their usefulness is another. Participants will learn to reflect on the quality of their student learning objectives. Once reflected on, they’ll use various tools (checklists, rubrics, strategy guides) to evaluate usefulness and classroom application as it flows into student performance.
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Participants will make adjustments to their SLOs based on the outcomes of their evaluation
Blending Fiction and Non-Fiction to Improve Comprehension and WritingSupporting Student Comprehension in Content Area ReadingCreating ABC Books as AssessmentFollow the Word Trail: Organize a Treasure HuntRate This Movie! Hold a Viewing PartyStudents must find evidence before they can cite it. Participants will learn strategies that work students into text in order to wrap them around it. Common Core Standards require students to have "discipline literacy" with close reading, answer text-dependent questions, and write arguably within short, sustained research projects. All facets of these big shifts will be analyzed closely to understand the new pedagogies behind them.
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Participants will understand the nature and purpose of text-dependent questioning.
Students must find evidence before they can cite it, and the sooner they learn the easier it will be for them. Participants will learn strategies that work students into text in order to wrap them around it. All facets of these Common Core big shifts will be analyzed closely to understand the new K-5 applications for behind them.
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Participants will understand the nature and purpose of early literacy text-dependent questioning.
Common Core Standards Initiative (a wiki)Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC)Project based learning, scaffolding of activities, planning and drafting stages of the writing process, giving and receiving feedback, setting goals and benchmarks all teach students new concepts about collaboration and model citizenship. Teachers will learn the steps needed to teach responsibility and action within the scope of the collaborative, primary classroom in keeping with the five traits of good citizenship: respect, courage, responsibility, compassion and honesty in collaborative, social learning environments.
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Participants will learn how to structure and support project-based teaching and learning in their classrooms.
Supporting Student ComprehensionScaffolding Summarization With Fishbone MappingInquiry ChartsBrochures: Writing for Audience and PurposeMaking Connections and Developing ComprehensionDesigning Effective Poster PresentationsService based learning prepares students to learn by making meaningful connections to their community, taking civic responsibility and in solving real-world problems from the classroom. Participants will be introduced to resources that further service learning goals and move students from passive to active citizens through the use of partnership schools, universities, faith-based organizations and non-profits.
Course objectives:
Participants will integrate student goals with a service learning plan for immediate classroom implementation.
Setting an academic goal for students as a baseline for performance is a benchmark that moves important growth targets forward. Participants will learn of SLOs and how they are written specifically for the ESL/bilingual and LD student population. Participants will gain familiarity with the process behind the careful creation of student learning objectives that fall within a 20 percent growth component of goals attainment.
Objectives:
Participants will become familiar with student learning objectives as both a reflection and evaluation tool.
Setting an academic goal for students as a baseline for performance is a benchmark that moves growth targets forward. Participants will become familiar with the process behind the careful development of student learning objectives as they align to the Common Core State Standards and the New York State Regents objectives. They'll learn how to set objectives that fall within a 20 percent growth component of goals attainment.
Objectives:
Participants will become familiar with student learning objectives as both a reflective and evaluation tool.
Setting an academic goal for students as a baseline for performance is a benchmark that moves student growth targets forward. Participants will become familiar with the process behind the careful development of student learning objectives as they align science and social studies curriculum to the Common Core State Standards. More important, they'll learn how to set objectives that won't fail to fall within a 20 percent growth component of goals attainment.
Objectives:
Participants will become familiar with student learning objectives as a reflection and evaluation tool.
This e-course will delve into the smart development of instructional strategy through the culling and pulling together of resources. Participants will examine the research-based strategies that feed student learning objectives as they align with best instructional practices.
Objectives:
Participants will practice with smart instructional strategies that support student learning objectives.
Reading strategies will focus on skill and readability as participants are introduced to leveling systems that scaffold. Participants will be introduced to the scaffolding mechanisms needed to appropriately move up text complexity in multiple genres across all subject areas.
Objectives:
Participants will align student learning objectives to strategy that teaches text complexity.
E-Pals Around the World The Literature Circle: Reading Like a Writer A Musical Prompt: Postcards From the Concert Collaborating on a Class BookA Class Book and a Potluck Lunch The Pros and Cons of DiscussionUsing the Think-Pair-Share TechniqueUsing Discussion to Enhance Teaching and Learning Promoting Cultural Values Through Alphabet BooksInvestigating Names to Explore Personal History and Cultural TraditionsExploring World Cultures Through Folk TalesFollow the Word Trail: Organize a Treasure HuntRate This Movie! Hold a Viewing PartyScaffolding Comprehension Strategies Using Graphic OrganizersSearching for Gold: A Collaborative Inquiry ProjectImproving Student's Writing Using Online WorkshopsSeuss and Silverstein: Posing Questions, Presenting PointsEngaging the Disengaged: Using Learning ClubsLiterature Circles Roles and Responsibilities 3-5 Online Literature CirclesLiterature Circles Roles Reframed: Reading as a Film CrewLiterature Circles: Getting Started The Big Bad Wolf...Is This a Fact?Expressing Understanding of Content Through PhotographyExploring Disability Using MultimediaUsing Greeting Cards to Motivate StudentsBuilding Complex Literacy Practices Through the ArtsTraveling the Road to Freedom Through Research and Historical FictionExit SlipsStudent ContractingUsing the Jigsaw Cooperative Learning Technique Collaborative Stories 2: RevisingExploring Letter-Sound Knowledge in the Primary ClassroomCreating a Class Pattern BookWord Study With Henry and MudgeGraphic MapUsing the Check and Line Method to Enhance Reading Comprehension Using the Check and Line Method to Enhance Reading Comprehension Power NotesDiscovering Memory A Trip to the Museum: From Picture to StoryFinding the Artist WithinBook Report Alternative: Hooking a Reader With a Book CoverEngaging With Cause-and-Effect Relationships Through Creating Comic StripsAccountable Book Clubs: Focused Discussion Using Guided ReadingShared Reading Opportunities for Direct Literacy Instruction Small Group Reading InstructionUsing Greeting Cards to MotivateWord Sorts for Beginning and Struggling ReadersBuilding Reading Comprehension Through Think-AloudsMind Pictures: Strategies That Enhance Mental ImageryReading Comprehension Using Inference and Comparison Guided Comprehension...Semantic Feature AnalysisSeuss and Silverstein: Posing Questions, Presenting PointsEngaging the Disengaged: Using Learning ClubsIt's Too Loud in Here! Teamwork in the ClassroomPrompting RevisionImplementing the Writing ProcessWikipedia: Professional Learning Community Let's Talk LiteracyReciprocal Revision: Making Peer Feedback MeaningfulPrompting Revision through Modeling and Written Conversations Peer Review NarrativePeer Review Strategy GuidePeer Review With Perfection Peer Coaching for ELLs: ResourcesPeer Review NarrativePeer Review Strategy GuidePeer Review With Perfection**This course is for students in grades 6 through 8. Students learn the nuts and bolts of student-centered peer coaching, to include goal-setting, troubleshooting, giving and receiving feedback. Most important, students learn how to use feedback that works, and disregard what does not as it works into their own writing goals. This research-based program builds the capacity of student writers, and has proven to improve student writing performance on standardized assessments in adolescent writers. The peer coaching model is based on the Ruckdeschel (2010) method for student peer coaching, and includes ancillary materials for application and implementation.
**This course is for students in grades 6 through 8. Students learn the nuts and bolts of student-centered peer coaching, to include goal-setting, troubleshooting, giving and receiving feedback. Most important, students learn how to use feedback that works, and disregard what does not as it it works into their own writing goals. This research-based program builds the capacity of student writers, and has proven to improve student writing performance on standardized assessments in adolescent writers. The peer coaching model is based on the Ruckdeschel (2010) method for student peer coaching, and includes ancillary materials for application and implementation.
**This course is for students in grades 3 – 5.Students learn the nuts and bolts of student-centered peer coaching, to include goal-setting, troubleshooting, giving and receiving feedback. Most important, students learn how to use feedback that works, and disregard what does not as it works into their own writing goals. This research-based program builds the capacity of student writers, and has proven to improve student writing achievement, and is based on the Ruckdeschel (2010) method for student peer coaching.This workshop includes ancillary materials for application and implementation of the peer coaching method for young writers.
I-Search Process Reflection ChartHow to Encourage Higher Order ThinkingBlending Fiction and Non-Fiction to Improve Comprehension and WritingSupporting Student Comprehension in Content Area ReadingCreating ABC Books as AssessmentUsing Greeting Cards to Motivate StudentsBuilding Complex Literacy Practices Through the ArtsTraveling the Road to Freedom Through Research and Historical FictionE-Pals Around the World The Literature Circle: Reading Like a Writer Reading Comprehension Using Inference and Comparison Guided Comprehension...Semantic Feature Analysis Collaborative Stories 2: RevisingExploring Letter-Sound Knowledge in the Primary ClassroomCreating a Class Pattern BookUsing the Check and Line Method to Enhance Reading Comprehension Building Reading Comprehension Through Think-AloudsMind Pictures: Strategies That Enhance Mental ImageryScaffolding Comprehension Strategies Using Graphic OrganizersSearching for Gold: A Collaborative Inquiry ProjectImproving Student's Writing Using Online WorkshopsThe Big Bad Wolf...Is This a Fact?Expressing Understanding of Content Through PhotographyExploring Disability Using MultimediaReciprocal Revision: Making Peer Feedback MeaningfulPrompting Revision through Modeling and Written Conversations Peer Review NarrativePeer Review Strategy GuidePeer Review With Perfection Critical Media Literacy: TV ProgramsThe Critical Role of New LiteraciesShared Discussion With Amazing Grace Common Content Area Roots and AffixesReading With Purpose in the Content AreasSupporting Student Comprehension in Content Area ReadingPopular Culture Texts and Literacy LearningAnalyzing and Podcasting About Images of Oscar WildeDigital Word Detectives...Vocabulary with eBook ReadersJoin us for a webinar every Friday at noon. We'll feature one of our online courses, with all reproducible curriculum materials for the taking! Here is the GoTo Meeting login: https://global.gotomeeting.com/join/982908957 Call-in: (213) 493-0006, Access Code: 982-908-957 Meeting ID: 982-908-957
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