CONFERENCES & WORKSHOPS» SIM Workshop Series 2013-2014 http://www.coe.uga.edu/events Sat, 05 Oct 2013 16:25:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 October 17-19, 2013: The Paragraph Writing Strategy Workshop http://www.coe.uga.edu/events/2013/07/02/october-17-19-2013-the-paragraph-writing-strategy-workshop/ http://www.coe.uga.edu/events/2013/07/02/october-17-19-2013-the-paragraph-writing-strategy-workshop/#comments Tue, 02 Jul 2013 11:08:00 +0000 mbaer http://www.coe.uga.edu/events/?p=2199 Continue reading →]]> Description: The Paragraph Writing Strategy is targeted towards students in grades 4 through 12 who struggle with written expression as basic as the development of soundly written paragraphs of different types (e.g. narrative, compare and contrast, etc.).

This three-day workshop will introduce teachers to the foundations of the Strategic Instruction Model® 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. It 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.

The third day of the workshop will involve participants preparing and creating student “cue cards” and folders, aligning the strategy’s skills with the CCSS relevant to their grade level, and further readying implementation with the goal of participants being able to begin the strategy with their students directly after the workshop is completed.

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 September 26-27, 2013 at River’s Crossing in Athens.

Cost: $375: Registration fee includes instructor’s and student lessons manuals (Intructor’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, a copy of the CD Paragraph Writing Strategy Student lessons, as well as supplemental handouts and PowerPoints sent electronically following the workshop to support teacher implementation.

Successful completion of this workshop will provide 2 PLU’s for eligible participants.

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

Location: UGA Gwinnett Campus

Register Now!  Registration Deadline: October 9, 2013

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]]> http://www.coe.uga.edu/events/2013/07/02/october-17-19-2013-the-paragraph-writing-strategy-workshop/feed/ 0 November 7-8, 2013: Fundamentals of Paraphrasing and Summarizing AND The Inference Strategy Workshop http://www.coe.uga.edu/events/2013/07/02/november-7-8-2013-fundamentals-of-paraphrasing-and-summarizing-and-the-inference-strategy-workshop/ http://www.coe.uga.edu/events/2013/07/02/november-7-8-2013-fundamentals-of-paraphrasing-and-summarizing-and-the-inference-strategy-workshop/#comments Tue, 02 Jul 2013 11:05:44 +0000 mbaer http://www.coe.uga.edu/events/?p=2203 Continue reading →]]> Description:  The Fundamentals of Paraphrasing and Summarizing Strategy Workshop 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.

The Inference Strategy Workshop is a set of procedures readers can use to comprehend written passages and to answer inferential questions (questions that are not answered directly in the text). Many students, especially low achievers, need such instruction because they do not know how to locate clues in their reading material that will help them make inferences. Research results showed that students who learned The Inference Strategy  improved their ability to make inferences and to identify different types of questions being asked. Students performed significantly better on tests—including standardized reading assessments—after learning the strategy.

Cost: $275 (includes parking passes, 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.)

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

Location: River’s Crossing, 850 College Station Road, Athens, Georgia 30605

Registration opening soon!

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]]> http://www.coe.uga.edu/events/2013/07/02/november-7-8-2013-fundamentals-of-paraphrasing-and-summarizing-and-the-inference-strategy-workshop/feed/ 0 January 23-24, 2014: Fundamentals of the Theme Writing Strategy Workshop http://www.coe.uga.edu/events/2013/07/02/january-23-24-2014-fundamentals-of-the-theme-writing-strategy-workshop/ http://www.coe.uga.edu/events/2013/07/02/january-23-24-2014-fundamentals-of-the-theme-writing-strategy-workshop/#comments Tue, 02 Jul 2013 11:05:18 +0000 mbaer http://www.coe.uga.edu/events/?p=2206 Continue reading →]]> 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: UGA Gwinnett Campus

Cost: $275 (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.

Registration opening soon!

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]]> http://www.coe.uga.edu/events/2013/07/02/january-23-24-2014-fundamentals-of-the-theme-writing-strategy-workshop/feed/ 0 February 17-18, 2014: Content Enhancement: Unit Organizer, Concept Mastery and Framing Routines http://www.coe.uga.edu/events/2013/07/02/february-17-18-2014-content-enhancement-unit-organizer-concept-mastery-and-framing-routines/ http://www.coe.uga.edu/events/2013/07/02/february-17-18-2014-content-enhancement-unit-organizer-concept-mastery-and-framing-routines/#comments Tue, 02 Jul 2013 11:00:44 +0000 mbaer http://www.coe.uga.edu/events/?p=2209 Continue reading →]]> Description:   Teachers face a tremendous challenge to meet the diverse needs of learners in classes that demand the presentation of a massive amount of course content. In particular, students whose reading and written expression skills are not up to grade level will struggle immensely in content area classes.  This workshop will introduce teachers to the foundations of the Strategic Instructional Model® (SIM®) Content Enhancement principles and will teach three specific Content Enhancement Routines:

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 conceptsare related.

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.

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.

These Routines will prepare them 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 routines are designed for collaborative use between the teacher and students during group instruction to help a teacher provide instruction more sensitive to the learning needs of individuals in the group.

Cost: $275 (includes 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: UGA Gwinnett Campus

Registration opening soon!

Click here to see all upcoming Strategic Instruction Model (SIM) Workshops!

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