Description:   Teachers face a tremendous challenge to meet the diverse needs of learners. This one-day workshop will introduce the foundations of the Strategic Instruction Model® (SIM)® and two of the Content Enhancement Routines, and will prepare  teachers to implement these research-based interventions to help students acquire the critical components of the vast amount of content presented in the general education curriculum.

The two Content Enhancement Routines participants will learn are:

CO NCEPT COM PARISON ROUTINE: Teachers use the Concept Comparison Routine to help students compare and contrast key concepts.  Research with students enrolled in general secondary science and social studies classes showed that students correctly answered substantially more test questions related to information that had been presented through the use of the routine than test questions related to information presented using traditional teaching methods. Students with learning disabilities and other low-achieving students correctly answered an average of 71.2 percent (students with learning disabilities) and 86.4 percent (students without learning disabilities) of the test questions associated with information presented through the use of the routine, compared to 56.7 percent (students with learning disabilities) and 62.6 percent (students without learning disabilities) of the questions associated with information presented through traditional means.  The experimental study involved 107 students.

QUESTION EXPLORATION ROUTINE:  The Question Exploration Routine is a package of instructional methods that teachers can use to help a diverse student population understand a body of content information by carefully answering a “critical question” to arrive at a main idea answer. Research results showed that students who were taught a lesson using the Question Exploration Routine earned an average test score of 70 percent while students who were taught the lesson with traditional methods scored an average of 48 percent.

 Instructor:  Kathy Boyle-Gast,Communication Sciences & Special Education, SIM® Professional Developer

Cost: $125 (Registration fee includes two refreshment breaks, parking pass, instructor’s guidebooks, packets of training materials, and supplemental  handouts and power points sent electronically to augment instruction and support teacher development and implementation of the routines.)

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Information: Strategic Instruction Model (SIM) Workshop Series, Fall 2011 – Spring 2012

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