Teaching to Cognition in Upper Grades
Objectives:
- Examine and discuss cognitive sciences behind educational pedagogy.
- Analyze evidence-based cognitive classroom practices.
- Adopt and adapt a multi-sensory curriculum that integrates cognitive-friendly teaching practices.
- Field test, discuss, and adapt new practices through classroom implementation.
Hours: 10
Content Area Literacy Learning Strategies Grades 3-5
Objectives:
- Learn and apply research-based strategy for teaching and facilitating literacy growth.
- Select, design and plan using strategy specific for classroom implementation.
- Facilitate comprehension and understanding through reading and writing.
Hours: 10
Content Area Literacy Learning Strategies Grades K-2
Objectives:
- Learn and apply research-based strategy for teaching and facilitating literacy growth.
- Select, design and plan using strategy specific for classroom implementation.
- Facilitate comprehension and understanding through reading and writing.
Hours: 10
Universal Design for Learning and Reading Comprehension
- Use new questioning approaches to move students deeper into text.
- Compare and discuss the differences a variety of question types.
- Design essential questions that leverage with text.
- Apply questioning approaches to facilitate high-level responses from students.
Hours: 10
Evidence-Based Literacy Practices for Struggling Learners Grades 6-8
Objectives:
- Analyze a range of best practices found in lessons, strategy guides, and open source e-resources.
- Apply the cycle of practice and reflection for adoption and adaptation.
- Align best practices to the needs of their students with plans for on-going assessment and modification.
Hours: 10
Literacy Learning Across Content Areas Grades 6-12
Objectives:
- Learn research-based strategy for teaching and facilitating content-focused writing sessions in support of non-fiction text.
- Understanding of reading and writing genre as applied to specific science and technical disciplines.
- Facilitate comprehension and understanding through reading strategy and responsive writing.
Hours: 10
The FUNdamentals of Reading Instruction
Objectives:
- Learn about, and practice with, the FUNdamentals of reading instruction from kindergarten to grade 12.
- Analyze and discuss effective reading comprehension and phonics practices.
- Examine how vocabulary is supported in all content areas.
- Understand how to use assessment data to plan for reading instruction.
Hours: 10
Brain-Based Literacy Strategies
Course Objectives:
- Read and discuss the latest research on literacy and cognition, for print and digital literacy.
- Examine footage and lesson exemplars of classrooms that teach for optimal cognition.
- Adopt and adapt strategies that use reading as a vehicle for "teaching to the brain" and optimal cognition.
Hours: 10
Literacy for All Subject Areas
Course Objectives:
- Review, examine, analyze and discuss the theory behind reinforcing literacy into all content areas.
- Analyze exemplars in print and multi-media of teaching literacy in multiple content areas.
- Select specific strategies to incorporate into existing lesson and unit plans.
- Select specific strategies to implement in live classrooms to adopt and adapt with plenty of reflection in between.
Hours: 10
Peer Coaching for Adolescent Writers
Course Objectives:
- Understand and apply the "why" and "how" of the student peer coaching method.
- Apply understanding by practicing the method with peers using generic writing.
- Plan lessons in multiple genre areas with embedded peer coaching protocols and practices to incorporate into the writing process.
Hours: 10
Reading and Writing that Engages & Excites!
Course Objectives:
- Examine and discuss multi-media exemplars of engaging reading and writing protocols.
- Read and discuss why and how reading and writing engages students at various stages of reading, writing, and language development.
- Design lessons with embedded student engagement strategies.
- Implement lessons, receive feedback and reflect to adapt as needed.
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Teaching the Writing Process
Course Objectives:
- Review and discuss the objectives of the writing process in deepening student skills in reading and writing.
- Examine multiple strategies and the step-by-step process for utilizing the writing process routinely.
- Plan and design lessons that incorporate the writing process, and/or repurpose lessons to incorporate the writing process.
Hours: 10
Reading Intervention for K-8 Students
Course Objectives:
- Use data to identify student reading levels, literacy gaps and needs.
- Appropriate Lexile levels and high interest reading to students' reading.
- Design, scaffold, and differentiate lessons to close literacy gaps among students and bring up achievement.
Classroom Strategies for Reading, Writing, Listening, and Speaking
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Hours: 10
Building Reading Comprehension in Primary Grades
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Hours: 10
Teaching Comprehension to High School Students
Course Objectives:
- Review and discuss the nature of reading comprehension and cognition in adolescents.
- Analyze evidence-based strategies that work to increase reading comprehension in secondary students reading at or below grade-level.
- Conduct assessments and analyze assessment data to align, scaffold, and differentiate strategies to deficits.
- Research and select from a range of evidence-based strategies those to embed in planning and implement in the classroom.
Hours: 10
Teaching Strategies for Struggling Readers in Middle School
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Early Literacy: Teaching Beginning Readers
Course Objectives:
- Examine and discuss the larger picture behind the best practices of teaching beginning readers.
- Analyze evidence-based practices for beginning readers, and select those most appropriate for teachers' own classrooms.
- Analyze and discuss curricula for its appropriateness within teachers' own classrooms.
- Apply best practices to lesson design for immediate implementation.
Hours: 10