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Tuesday Teacher Training: The Complexities of Reading to Learn
This is a "must see" program for all middle and secondary content area teachers. Dr. Kathy Oropallo demonstrates how teachers can help students recognize organizational structures in content area textbooks and shares techniques to help them interpret graphic displays. This Tuesday Teacher Training features video clips of content teachers modeling instructional practices used to facilitate student ownership of strategies needed for accessing content area texts.
(Reading Competency: 1; Indicators 1.E.1-1.E.4 and 1.F.1-1.F.5 Number of Hours: 10)
Tuesday Teacher Training: Using Data to Differentiate Instruction
This practical course addresses how student data is used to differentiate reading instruction. Video clips showing reading coaches and skilled teachers asking critical questions, setting skill targets and forming flexible reading groups based on excellent data sources are incorporated into this excellent professional development opportunity.
(Reading Competency: 3, Indicators 3.2, 3.7, 3.8, 3.9 Number of Hours: 10)
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Tuesday Teacher Training: Fluency and How It Is Addressed
In this engaging professional development activity, Kathleen Oropallo, Ph.D. differentiates between assessing and teaching fluency . A wealth of practical information is provided to help participants implement numerous different activities to help their students become fluent readers. Participants are also afforded the opportunity to view best practices in fluency instruction being modeled at grades 2, 4, 7, and 9 in exemplary schools.
(Reading Competency: 1; Indicators 1.C.1, 1.C.2 Number of Hours: 10)
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Tuesday Teacher Training: Examining Assessment for Unique Populations
This content-rich program focuses on research-evidenced best practices regarding instructional strategies and assessments in the area of reading. The classroom modeling takes place at San Jose Elementary School, an ESOL center in Duval County, Florida, where there is tremendous linguistic diversity among the student population. However, this is not merely a program about ELL students; the instructional and assessment strategies demonstrated are important for all who teach reading. In the program Dr. Kathy Oropallo asks critical questions that delve into what is proven to work, not only with ELL students, but with all students who are learning to read. Join us to hear the story of how Jacksonville, Florida is affected when trouble is brewing in any corner of our world, view intriguing classroom footage and listen to discussions pertaining to data interpretation and identification of instructional strategies that target specific skills. Additionally, valuable information is provided on modifications and accommodations, alternate versus alternative assessment, and Florida's Good Cause Exemption.
(Reading Competency: 3; Indicators 3.9, 3.10, 3.11, 3.12 Number of Hours: 10)
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Tuesday Teacher Training: Using Reading Assessments to Inform Instruction
This course, an introduction to reading assessment, affords the opportunity for educators to observe pre-service teachers administering reading assessments and working collegially to plan instruction based on the assessment data. Dr. Charlotte Boling, a reading instructor at University of West Florida and Ellen Marsh, a veteran elementary teacher and reading coach add their expertise on what information may be gained from various reading assessments and how their use should play a significant role in the manner in which teachers plan and deliver instruction designed to ensure student success.
(Reading Competency: 3; Indicators 3.2, 3.3 Number of Hours: 10)
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Word Wisdom: Encouraging Students to be Word Detectives
Encouraging Students to be Word Detectives Using Origin and History of Word Structure to Increase Vocabulary Knowledge.
(Reading Competency: 2; Indicator 2.D Number of Hours: 10)
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Tuesday Teacher Training: One Size Does Not Fit All
Classroom teachers from various grade levels will demonstrate instructional methods and strategies they use in their classrooms to help promote the intellectual, personal, and social development of all of their students. The major concepts that will be discussed and explored will center around learning theories, including Universal Design and Differentiated Instruction. Guest speakers on these topics will be: Bob Jewett, M.Ed., associate with Stetson & Associates, Inc., Debby Houston, Ph.D Research Associates for the Center For Performance Technology and Glenda Delmar, M.S., FDLRS/PAEC Consultant.
(Reading Competency: 4 Number of Hours: 10)
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Tuesday Teacher Training: Differentiated Instruction
This highly informative program will provide the target audience with information regarding the philosophical underpinnings and current research that support differentiated instruction as a means of crafting the classroom to meet the needs of our increasingly diverse student populations. Participants will have an opportunity to visit a differentiated fourth grade classroom at Bonifay Elementary School, a high-performing school for the past four years. Teachers in the fourth grade class will model strategies that may be employed to foster achievement in vocabulary, reading comprehension and various other core content areas.
(Reading Competency: 5 Number of Hours: 10)
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Tuesday Teacher Training: Reading Across the Content Areas, It's Just Different
Teaching reading at the secondary level often falls to the language arts teacher or to the lone reading teacher in a school. Studies show that schools in which all content area teachers provide reading instruction are more successful in increasing student achievement.
(Reading Competency: 2; Indicators 2.E, 2.F.2 Number of Hours: 10)
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Tuesday Teacher Training: Strategies for Teaching Vocabulary
Master educators provide strategies that are research based to be used to foster vocabulary mastery. Whether the goal is to develop rich content-specific vocabulary or to add new vocabulary words to make up for deficiencies in vocabulary, teachers in any classroom will find useful strategies that they may use. The video embedded in this course uses footage from the USDOE’s Teacher to Teacher Initiative and from classroom modeling. Comments from a practical perspective are provided by panelists both of whom are veteran educators; Dr. Bobbie Dawson, who is currently serving as a principal and Karen Odom an educator with teaching experience that spans all grade levels.
(Reading Competency: 2; Indicator 2.F.2 Number of Hours: 10)
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Tuesday Teacher Training: Technology Tools for Students with Special Needs: Books in the Digital Age
What special tools are available to help students with special needs improve literacy skills? Join us as two highly regarded experts in the field of assistive technology, Dr. Dave Edyburn and David Davis answer this question. During this episode of Tuesday Teacher Training, the viewer may expect to explore available technology designed to support and engage students as they write, share, and read books. Dr. Edyburn, an Associate Professor in the Department of Exceptional Education at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee is the author of more than 100 articles and book chapters on assistive and instructional technology. He is also a co-editor of the recently published book, Handbook of Special Education Technology Research and Practice. Dr. Edyburn’s academic interests focus on how technology may be used to enhance teaching, learning, and performance. David Davis is the Florida Diagnostic and Learning Resource System Instructional Technology Statewide Project Coordinator. David has a wealth of experience in identification and appropriate use of technologies to access, retrieve, demonstrate, problem solve, and present information and concepts through distance learning, on-line services, telecommunications, remote access, digital presentations, videoconferencing, and virtual simulations.
(Number of Hours: 10)
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