October 3rd, 2011 |
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Description: This two-day workshop will introduce teachers to the foundations of the Strategic Instructional Model® (SIM® ) and will prepare them to implement research-based interventions to help students acquire strategies for writing and editing a variety of types of paragraphs for eff ecti ve writt en communication. This strategy is targeted towards students in grades 4 through 12 who struggle with written expression. The Paragraph Writing Strategy is a strategy for organizing ideas related to a topic, planning the point of view and verb tense to be used in the paragraph, planning the sequence in which ideas will be expressed, and writing a variety of topic, detail, and conclusion sentences.
Please note: Participants in this workshop ideally would have already received professional development in the SIM® Sentence Writing Strategy, the precursor to the Paragraph Writing Strategy, in order to provide students with the minimum sentence writing skill prerequisites needed to successfully write paragraphs. The Sentence Writing Strategy Workshop is scheduled for October 4-5, 2012 at River’s Crossing in Athens.
Cost: $275 (includes instructor’s and student lessons manuals (The Instructor’s Manual features a systematic sequence of instructional procedures; the Student Lessons Manual features exercises that correspond to the instructional procedures), packets of training materials, as well as supplemental handouts and PowerPoints (support teacher development and implementation of the Paragraph Writing Strategy) sent electronically following the workshop. Successful completion of this workshop will provide 1 PLU for eligible participants.
Instructor: Kathy Boyle-Gast, Communication Sciences & Special Education, SIM® Professional Developer
Location: UGA Gwinnett Campus
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October 3rd, 2011 |
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Description**: Fundamentals of Paraphrasing and Summarizing Strategy is designed to systematically teach the fundamental skills students need to be able to identify and paraphrase main ideas and details. Fundamentals contains lessons on paraphrasing words, phrases, and sentences, as well as lessons on identifying main ideas and details in paragraphs and short essays. Specific instruction includes paraphrasing passages where main ideas are not clear, as well as generalizing to Standardized tests.
**This workshop can be taken separately, or in conjunction with the Word Identification Strategy Workshop scheduled for October 18, 2012.
Cost: $125 (includes parking pass, refreshment breaks, instructor’s manuals, packets of training materials, as well as supplemental handouts and PowerPoint presentations sent electronically following the workshop to augment instruction. Successful completion of both workshops will provide 1 PLU for eligible participants.)
Instructor: Kathy Boyle-Gast, Communication Sciences & Special Education, SIM® Professional Developer
Location: River’s Crossing, 850 College Station Road, Athens, Georgia 30605
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October 3rd, 2011 |
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Description**: The Word Identification Strategy teaches a series of steps students can take which promote the successful reading of words not immediately recalled from memory. It provides a functional and efficient strategy to help challenged readers successfully decode and identify unknown words in their reading materials. Using a mnemonic device, students are taught to use various tools (beginning with the least time-consuming) including word structure analysis and using other readily available resources to correctly read unfamiliar words. The strategy is based on the premise that most words in the English language can be pronounced by identifying prefixes, suffixes, and stems and by following three short syllabication rules. The strategy steps include using contextual clues, breaking words into their morphemic parts (prefix, suffix, root), following three short syllabication rules. and basic phonetic analysis. This strategy can also prompt students to predict the meanings of some words, which enhances the understanding of vocabulary found in both isolation and text. In a research study, students made an average of 20 errors in a passage of 400 words before learning this strategy. Having learned the Word Identification Strategy, students reduced their errors to an average of three per 400 words. Reading comprehension increased from 40 percent on the pretest to 70 percent on grade-level passages.
**This workshop can be taken separately or in conjunction with the Fundamentals of Paraphrasing and Summarizing Workshop scheduled for October 19, 2012.
Cost: $125 (includes parking pass, refreshment breaks, instructor’s manuals, packets of training materials, as well as supplemental handouts and PowerPoint presentations sent electronically following the workshop to augment instruction. Successful completion of both workshops will provide 1 PLU for eligible participants.)
Instructor: Kathy Boyle-Gast, Communication Sciences & Special Education, SIM® Professional Developer
Location: River’s Crossing, 850 College Station Road, Athens, Georgia 30605
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October 3rd, 2011 |
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Archived, SIM Workshop Series 2012-2013, Strategic Instructional Model® (SIM)® Workshop Series
Description: This two-day workshop will introduce teachers to the foundations of the Strategic Instructional Model® (SIM)® and will prepare them to implement research-based interventions to help students acquire strategies for writing and editing sentences for effective written communication. The Sentence Writing Strategy series, a two-part program that includes Fundamental and Proficiency levels, is targeted towards students in grades 4 through 12 who struggle with written expression. In addition to a writing strategy, students can be taught 14 sentence patterns with four types of sentences: • simple • compound • complex • compound-complex.
Instructor: Kathy Boyle-Gast, Communication Sciences & Special Education, SIM® Professional Developer
Location: UGA Gwinnett Campus
Cost: $275 (includes refreshment breaks, 2 instructor’s manuals, 2 student lessons books, packets of training materials, as well as supplemental handouts and power points sent electronically following the workshop to augment instruction)
Successful completion of this workshop will provide 1 PLU for eligible participants.
For more information, click here to view the complete flyer!
Click here to see all upcoming Strategic Instruction Model (SIM) Workshops!
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October 3rd, 2011 |
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Description: This two-day workshop will introduce teachers to the foundations of the Strategic Instructional Model® (SIM) and will prepare them to implement the FUNDAMENTALS IN THE THEME WRITING STRATEGY. This research-based intervention helps students acquire strategies for writing and editing a theme by using a basic structure and framework to plan and write effectively. With incremental instruction (including learning sheets to accompany direct instruction) students are taught how to gather information, organize it using a diagram, and write a theme with a structure that includes an introduction, body, conclusion, and connecting paragraphs with appropriate transitions.
This strategy is designed and found to be most appropriate for students in grades 6 through 12 (although some have taught the strategy successfully to 4th graders). Students who can write complete sentences and well-organized paragraphs respond most successfully to instruction in the Theme Writing Strategy.
Instructor: Kathy Boyle-Gast, Communication Sciences & Special Education, SIM® Professional Developer
Location: River’s Crossing, 850 College Station Road, Athens, Georgia 30605
Cost: $250 (includes refreshment breaks, parking pass, instructor’s manuals, packets of training materials, as well as supplemental handouts and PowerPoint presentations sent electronically following the workshop to augment instruction. Successful completion of this workshop will provide 1 PLU for eligible participants)
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October 3rd, 2011 |
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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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October 3rd, 2011 |
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Archived, Strategic Instructional Model® (SIM)® Workshop Series, Workshop
Description: This two-day workshop will introduce teachers to the foundations of the Strategic Instructional Model® (SIM) and will prepare them to implement the FUNDAMENTALS IN THE THEME WRITING STRATEGY. This research-based intervention helps students acquire strategies for writing and editing a theme by using a basic structure and framework to plan and write effectively. With incremental instruction (including learning sheets to accompany students are taught how to gather information, organize it using a diagram, and write a theme with a structure that includes an introduction, body, conclusion, and connecting paragraphs with appropriate transitions.
This strategy is designed and found to be most appropriate for students in grades 6 through 12 (although some have taught the strategy successfully to 4th graders). Students who can write complete sentences and well-organized paragraphs respond most successfully to instruction in the Theme Writing Strategy.
Instructor: Kathy Boyle-Gast,Communication Sciences & Special Education, SIM® Professional Developer
Cost: $275
Workshop Flyer
Information: Strategic Instruction Model (SIM) Workshop Series, Fall 2011 – Spring 2012
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October 3rd, 2011 |
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Archived, Strategic Instructional Model® (SIM)® Workshop Series, Workshop
Description: This two-day workshop will introduce teachers to the foundations of the Strategic Instructional Model® (SIM® ) and will prepare them to implement research-based interventions to help students acquire strategies for writing and editing a variety of types of paragraphs for effective written communication. This strategy is targeted towards students in grades 4 through 12 who struggle with written expression. The Paragraph Writing Strategy is a strategy for organizing ideas related to a topic, planning the point of view and verb tense to be used in the paragraph, planning the sequence in which ideas will be expressed, and writing a variety of topic, detail, and conclusion sentences.
Important Note: Participants in this workshop ideally would have already received professional development in the SIM® Sentence Writing Strategy, the precursor to the Paragraph Writing Strategy, in order to provide students with the minimum sentence writing skill prerequisites needed to successfully write paragraphs. The SIM® Sentence Writing Strategy Workshop which took place on November 10-11, 2011.
Instructor: Kathy Boyle-Gast,Communication Sciences & Special Education, SIM® Professional Developer
Cost: $275
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Information: Strategic Instruction Model (SIM) Workshop Series, Fall 2011 – Spring 2012
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October 3rd, 2011 |
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Description: The Inference Strategy is a set of procedures readers can use to comprehend written passages and answer inferential questions (questions that are not answered directly in the text). Research results showed that students who learned the Inference Strategy improved their ability to make inferences and to identify different types of questions. The Vocabulary LINCing Routineis designed to facilitate student use of two powerful tools —an auditory memory device and a visual memory device—that will help them learn and remember the meaning of complex terms. Research results showed that students, including those with learning disabilities, improved their performance by an average of 19 percentage points on vocabulary tests.
Instructor: Kathy Boyle-Gast,Communication Sciences & Special Education, SIM® Professional Developer
Cost: $275
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Information: Strategic Instruction Model (SIM) Workshop Series, Fall 2011 – Spring 2012
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October 3rd, 2011 |
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Description: The Unit Organizer Routine: Teachers use the Unit Organizer Routine to plan units; introduce and maintain the big ideas in units; and show how units, critical information, and concepts are related. Research results showed that students whose teachers regularly and consistently used the Unit Organizer Routine scored an average of 15 percentage points higher on unit tests than students whose teachers used it only irregularly; The Concept Mastery Routine: Teachers use the Concept Mastery Routine to define, summarize, and explain a major concept and where it fits within a larger body of knowledge. Research shows several benefits for secondary students when their teachers use this routine. The Framing Routine: Teachers use the Framing Routine to transform abstract main ideas and key topics into a concrete representation that helps students think about and talk about the key topic and essential related information. Research results have consistently demonstrated that the routine can effectively facilitate subject-matter learning as well as the development of literacy and thinking skills.
Instructor: Kathy Boyle-Gast,Communication Sciences & Special Education, SIM® Professional Developer
Cost: $275
Workshop Flyer
Information: Strategic Instruction Model (SIM) Workshop Series, Fall 2011 – Spring 2012
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October 3rd, 2011 |
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Archived, Strategic Instructional Model® (SIM)® Workshop Series
Description: This two-day workshop will introduce teachers to the foundations of the Strategic Instructional Model® (SIM)® and will prepare them to implement research-based interventions to help students acquire strategies for writing and editing sentences for effective written communication. The Sentence Writing Strategy series, a two-part program that includes Fundamental and Proficiency levels, is targeted towards students in grades 4 through 12 who struggle with written expression. In addition to a writing strategy, students can be taught 14 sentence patterns with four types of sentences: • simple • compound • complex • compound-complex
Instructor: Kathy Boyle-Gast,Communication Sciences & Special Education, SIM® Professional Developer
Cost: $275
Workshop Flyer
Information: Strategic Instruction Model (SIM) Workshop Series, Fall 2011 – Spring 2012
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October 3rd, 2011 |
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Archived, Strategic Instructional Model® (SIM)® Workshop Series
Description: The Fundamentals of Paraphrasing and Summarizing is designed to teach the fundamental skills students need to be able to identify and paraphrase main ideas and details. Fundamentals contains lessons on paraphrasing words, phrases, and sentences, as well as lessons on identifying main ideas and details in paragraphs and short essays. The Word Mapping Strategyinvolves breaking words into their morphemic parts (prefix, suffix, root); attaching meaning to each word part; making a prediction about the meaning of the unknown word based upon the meaning of each part; and checking the dictionary for the definition. The mnemonic MAPS helps students learn and remember the names of the steps.
Instructor: Kathy Boyle-Gast,Communication Sciences & Special Education, SIM® Professional Developer
Cost: $275
Workshop Flyer
Information: Strategic Instruction Model (SIM) Workshop Series, Fall 2011 – Spring 2012
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