October 3rd, 2011 |
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Description: This one day workshop is designed for teachers in the elementary grades, instructional coaches, literacy coaches, administrators, after school specialists, tutors, administrators, and anyone else concerned with providing the highest quality reading instruction and literacy contexts for all children. In this terrific workshop participants will:
• Learn about the social class-sensitive, five-part framework for differentiated instruction in reading;
• Examine how social class and poverty play a role in reading and language in the classroom;
• Analyze social class and poverty in popular culture, media, and literature through critical reading practices;
• Design learning opportunities around working-class children’s literature;
• Create a concrete plan for individualizing reading instruction for “struggling” readers and enhancing literacy for all students.
Invite your administrators to attend the Leading Class-Sensitive Schools workshop which is taking place at the same time! Click here for more information.
Instructor: Dr. Stephanie Jones, Associate Professor, Elementary and Social Studies Education
Cost: $145 (includes a copy of the book “The Reading Turn-Around”)
Time: 9:00 AM – 3:00 PM
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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
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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: 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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Archived, The CLASSroom Project at UGA Workshop, Workshop
Description: In this exciting, stimulating, and intensive one-day workshop at the University of Georgia, teachers, administrators, counselors, and teacher educators will:
• Learn about the five principles for change to better meet the needs of working-class and poor students
• Develop research-based teaching practices sensitive to working-class and poor children and families
• Reflect on formative assessment of working-class and poor students across the curriculum
• Take away powerful classroom ideas for incorporating social class-related content
• Get ideas for establishing positive relationships with working-class and poor families
Instructors:
Dr. Mark Vagle, Associate Professor, Elementary and Social Studies Education
Dr. Stephanie Jones, Associate Professor, Elementary and Social Studies Education
Cost: $125
Time: 9:00 AM – 3:00 PM
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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: This two-day seminar will offer participants an opportunity to understand the ins-and-outs of the statistical package R. R is a free software environment for statistical computing and graphics. While powerful and free, many find that the learning curve can be a bit steep. This workshop helps to flatten the learning curve just a bit so that participants can tackle individual research projects with greater confidence once the workshop is completed. Topics covered during the workshop include: Introduction to R, data structures in R, data import and export, If else, loop, write your own function, graphics, summary of data with R, basic concepts of probability and statistics, analysis of means with R, and analysis of variances and regression with R.
Numerous “add-on” packages, offering almost unlimited analysis options, are available for R users. Many of these packages will be examined. However, participants will also learn a bit about the basics of programming in R so that the use of packages will make more sense later on. In addition to specific topics, facilitators will offer ways to conceptualize the use of R in developing data strategies. Participants will work on simulated and real data analysis problems throughout the sessions to apply and reinforce class concepts.
Workshop Facilitators:
Seok-Oh Jeong
Visiting Scholar and Associate Professor
Department of Statistics, University of Georgia
Department of Statistics, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Korea
In Heok Lee
Postdoctoral Fellow
Program of Workforce Education, University of Georgia
Jay W. Rojewski
Professor
Program of Workforce Education, University of Georgia
Cost: $300 (Includes refreshment breaks and lunch each day)
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October 3rd, 2011 |
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The CLASSroom Project at UGA Workshop, Workshop
Description:
- The workshop, “Leading Social Class-Sensitive Schools” (instructed by Mark Vagle) is an exciting, stimulating, and practical workshop for district level administrators, building principals and assistant principals, counselors, and instructional coaches. The participants will learn about the five principles for change to better meet the needs of working-class and poor students; develop strategies for evaluating and coaching teachers with class-sensitivity in mind; design ways to make school improvement plans sensitive to social class; and examine how to make broad district, school, and classroom policies and practices anti-classist and anti-poverty.
- The workshop, “Turning Around Readers and Reading with a Social Class-Sensitive Approach” (instructed by Stephanie Jones) is a workshop for teachers, instructional coaches, and anyone interested in helping all students become powerful readers. Participants will learn about the social class-sensitive, five-part framework for differentiated instruction in reading; examine how social class and poverty play a role in reading and language in the classroom; analyze social class and poverty in popular culture, media, and literature through critical reading practices; design learning opportunities around working-class children’s literature; create a concrete plan for individualizing reading instruction for “struggling” readers and enhancing literacy for all students.
Instructors:
Dr. Mark Vagle, Associate Professor, Elementary and Social Studies Education
Dr. Stephanie Jones, Associate Professor, Elementary and Social Studies Education
Cost: $145 (includes a copy of the book The Reading Turn-Around, A Five Part Framework for Differentiated Instruction)
Time: 9:00 AM – 3:00 PM
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October 3rd, 2011 |
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Description: This one-day workshop is designed to enhance a teacher’s ability to understand and to work effectively with Spanish-speaking students and their families. No prior knowledge of Spanish is necessary. Workshop topics may include: writing letters to the Hispanic students’ parents; family customs and how they can relate to welcoming school and classroom environments; Mexican celebrations and holidays, and working with translation.
Instructor: Dr. Melisa Cahnmann-Taylor, Associate Professor, Language and Literacy Education, University of Georgia
Cost: $250
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