| 14.702 |
Low Literacy and Bi-Lingual Students
(3) - Concentrates
on increasing the participant’s understanding of the academic,
linguistic, and sociocultural issues surrounding students who speak a
language other than English at home.
The focus of the course will be particularly on middle and high
school students who come to school with low literacy skills in their
native language and English. Through
the format of the study group, participants will collaboratively work on a
written report containing recommendations for implementing sound
educational practices for this group of students. |
| 14.725 |
Spelling Matters: Strategies for Assessing
and Teaching (Gr. 2-6) (1) - Explores the
intricacies of spelling development as well as ways of collecting and
analyzing children’s spelling attempts.
Analysis of the strategies which young writers use while spelling
will serve to anchor discussions about appropriate instructional
mediations. Students will
examine current thinking and research about spelling instruction. |
| 14.726 |
Successful Beginnings: An Early
Literacy Course for Teachers of Students in Gr. K-1 (2)
- Explores classroom
practices, which promote early reading and writing successes.
The principles of guided reading and writing are discussed.
Participants also discuss assessment techniques to meet individual
students’ literacy needs. |
| 14.773 |
The Journal: The Uses of Creative Writing
to Enhance Curriculum (3) - An
online course that explores the uses of the creative journal in the
classroom to complement and enhance study of any subject area. Various creative writing techniques are explored and several
journal-writing exercises are designed which can be applied to individual
teacher’s subject areas. |
| 14.776 |
Understanding
Literacy: A Balanced Approach (2) - Designed
to familiarize new teachers with a uniform set of beliefs and strategies
for implementing a balanced developmental approach. Participants gain an understanding of the current literacy
philosophies and their impact upon student learning, as well as provide
practical strategies and instructional approaches for teachers to
implement in classrooms. In
addition, emphasis is directed toward implementation of the new authentic
assessment program, including use of portfolio, criteria, and system
standards in the Language Arts. |
| 14.794 |
Literacy and
Character Education; A K-5 Integration (4) -
Designed
to assist educators teaching character education through the standards of
the English Language Arts and Health Frameworks.
Participants will discuss and write about selected pieces of adult
and children’s literature where characters are making important
decisions. Teachers will
learn to select literature with themes that provoke thinking and provide
insight into universal human emotions and dilemmas.
They will also learn to teach specific skills and strategies to
ensure that students are able to interpret the meaning of literary works
by using critical lenses and analytical techniques. |
| 15.703 |
Designing
an Effective Writing and Thinking Program for the Elementary Grades (3)
- Focuses
on age-appropriate strategies and techniques for motivating, encouraging,
and improving student writing and thinking.
The course addresses the following topics: using writing to develop
literacy, to communicate with others, and to reflect on learning as well
as one’s awareness of the world; identifying and developing the “
three critical elements” of an effective writing program; using a
writing portfolio to promote growth in writing; helping students
internalize the writing process by modeling strategies for drafting,
sharing, revising, and editing; choosing key thinking and writing skills
for your students; structuring the classroom for sharing activities that
make students resources to one another; using a variety of writing
activities and projects to enhance learning in all content areas; and
evaluating student writing as well as planning for strategic teaching. |
| 15.724 |
Written
Expression: Framing Your Thoughts (2) - Designed
to teach students, grades one through adult, sentence structure and
paragraph development. The
course emphasizes direct teaching of concepts and skills, presented in
their dependent order and delivered through multisensory strategies,
materials and activities. |
| 15.726 |
Using
the Language Arts Frameworks in Everyday Teaching (1)
- Focuses
on understanding and interpreting the Language Arts Framework guiding
principles and strands. Lesson
plans are designed based on current research and practice. |
| 15.730 |
Effective Skills
Centers to Support Literacy Learning (3) - Addresses
ways for K-8 teachers to prepare interactive skills curricula that give
children extensive practice in reading and mathematics for skill
reinforcement. Participants
also learn management techniques to develop self-directed learners.
This multi-level approach to skills instruction is shared through
teacher-designed skills centers. Participants
are required to develop components for skills learning. |
| 15.733 |
The
Interactive Reading and Mathematics Curriculum (3)
- Demonstrates
how to involve children in everyday reading and mathematics activities.
Strategies for making literacy connections to reading and
mathematics are shared through children’s work, teacher designed
materials, interactive classroom centers, and techniques that involve
student feedback. Teachers
are required to develop their own curriculum materials. |
| 15.744 |
Multifaceted
Reading Strategies for At-Risk Learners (3)
- Focuses
on developing effective strategies and techniques for motivating,
encouraging, and improving student’s reading abilities.
Designed specifically for teachers in grades K-3, Special Education
Teachers, and Title I/Remedial Reading Teachers. |
| 15.752 |
Children’s
Literature in the Elementary Classroom (3) -
Includes
the following: exploring guidelines for evaluating children’s
literature; understanding and selecting literature that recognizes the
different developmental needs of elementary school children; examining the
changing world of children’s books; helping children make literature
connections to their own lives; developing a literature reading program
for students; and studying the works of selected authors and illustrators. |
| 15.755 |
Strengthening
Students’ Writing through Writer’s Workshop (2)
- Designed
to help participants implement writer’s workshop in the classroom.
Participants engage children in both expressive and content related
writings that are analyzed and discussed. |
| 15.759 |
Literacy
Development for Students (3) - Examines
current theory and research on secondary school literacy development
theory. Content includes the
writing process, the place of traditional grammar instruction, and new
methods of teaching literary analysis. |
| 15.761 |
Processing
Language Development in the Classroom (3) - Designed
for educators grades K-8 to
engage students in the language that is all around them. Participants share methods to create a classroom environment
that fosters language development. Writing
experiences that develop solid language skills are demonstrated, along
with the use of literature as a method of language modeling. |
| 15.762 |
Effective
Skills Centers to Supplement Literacy Learning (3)
- Prepares
K-8 teachers to develop interactive skills curricula that give children
extensive practice in reading. Management
techniques to develop self-directed learners are considered.
This multi-level approach to skills instruction will be shared
through teacher-designed skills centers.
Participants will be required to develop center components for
skills learning. |
| 15.763 |
Dimensions
of Learning (3) - Introduces
participants to a learning-centered framework for instructional planning
that translates the latest research on cognition and learning into
practical classroom strategies. Participants
explore the five kinds of thinking known to be associated with learning,
including demonstrating positive attitudes and perceptions about learning,
acquiring and integrating knowledge, extending and refining knowledge,
using knowledge meaningfully, and applying productive habits of mind. |
| 15.764 |
Dimensions
of Learning in Action (3) - Extends
the concepts introduced in Dimensions
in Learning. Students examine the role of performance assessment in
classrooms using Dimensions of Learning (DoL) concepts and tools. The
course emphasizes the reasoning processes as critical to the development
of competent learners. A
considerable portion of the course is devoted to writing instructional
units and building quality assessments for use in the classroom. |
| 15.776 |
Successful
Reading Strategies for Reading Delayed, Disabled, and Language Learning
Disabled Students (3) - Integrates
both SGM and phonemic awareness within existing reading problems,
including whole language, basal and linguistic.
Invited speakers with classroom expertise in the areas of
inclusionary laws, computer technology, and attention deficit
hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) discuss the effect of these issues on both
special and general education programs. |
| 16.701 |
A
Balanced Approach to Literacy (1) - Designed
to assist teachers with the implementation of a uniform set of beliefs and
strategies for a balanced developmental literacy approach. |
| 16.719 |
Integrating
Poetry into the Elementary School Curriculum (1)
- Designed
to help teachers share knowledge about the world of children’s poetry
and the ways in which it can enhance literacy in the classroom. |
| 16.721 |
Project
Read – Phonology: Decoding for Students in Grades 1-4 (2)
- Focuses
on a basic decoding approach based on systematic phonics.
The course deals with the direct teaching of the concepts and
skills of the phonology of our language.
It employs multisensory strategies, materials, and activities that
make the concept of language concrete. |
| 16.748 |
Integrating
Reading and Writing Strategies (3) - Designed
to demonstrate processes of development of curriculum where reading and
writing are extensions of each other.
Literature samples, children’s writing, learning center
activities and writing environments are shared.
Participants develop appropriate curriculum for their classrooms. |
| 16.754 |
Journal
Preparation for the Classroom (3) - Combines
the disciplines of language and visual arts.
Participants produce their own bound journals working within the
Writing Process and drawing upon connections to portfolios. Participants are expected to implement this knowledge into
immediate classroom use. |
| 16.764 |
Enhancing
Teaching Skills (3) - Designed
to help teachers and educational leaders view teaching as a skillful
performance. Teaching skills
are identified from a knowledge base of teaching and studied through the
use of videotape exemplars. For
teachers and administrators, there are many practical insights into
teaching practices as well as techniques for guiding feedback, coaching,
and conducting classroom evaluations.
In addition to mastering a knowledge base of teaching, students are
expected to acquire skills in observing, scripting, labeling,
interpreting, and coaching. |
| 16.777 |
Integrating
Poetry Across the Curriculum (3) - Designed
to help elementary teachers along with media, resource, and reading
specialists increase and apply their knowledge of children’s poetry to
enrich instruction in all areas of the curriculum.
The course will include an overview of forms and elements in
published poetry, information helpful for MCAS preparation, and methods to
improve student poetry writing and understanding. |
| 16.778 |
Helping
Children Become Effective Readers and Writers (4)
- Focuses
on the reading and writing components of the English Language Arts
Curriculum Framework and on the History and Social Science Curriculum
Framework relating to the American Revolutionary War.
Participants focus on reading and writing strategies in the content
areas as well as on developing writing prompts.
Time is devoted to creating writing activities and prompts to be
used with students in the classroom. |
| 16.786 |
Developing
Literacy First (3) - Explores
techniques and strategies for a balanced literacy classroom.
Topics include: understanding how children learn to read and write,
brain research and literacy development, assessment, and successful
classroom management. |
| 16.787 |
Integrated
Bilingual Settings: Theory and Practice (3)
- Focuses
on the theoretical and practical issues involved with bringing together
students from a bilingual and standard curriculum classroom.
Topics include bilingualism and second language acquisition,
classroom organization in integrated settings, and developing positive
cross-cultural relationships. |
