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A two-day professional development workshop that will introduce teachers to the foundations of the Strategic Instructional Model® (SIM) and prepare them to help students acquire strategies for writing and editing sentences for effective written communication will be presented by the University of Georgia’s College of Education at UGA-Gwinnett on November 12-13.

The Sentence Writing Strategy workshop is a two-part program that will prepare teachers 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.

The workshop will be held from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. each day at the UGA Gwinnett campus in Lawrenceville. The registration deadline is Nov. 2. SIM® Professional Developer Kathy Boyle-Gast, of the UGA College of Education’s department of communication sciences and special education, will be the instructor.

One Professional Learning Unit can be earned by successfully completing the workshop, contingent upon approval by individual school district administration.

Participants in this workshop ideally would have already received professional development in the SIM® Paragraph Writing Strategy.

Developed through the University of Kansas Center for Research on Learning from on-going research for over 30 years, SIM® is an evidence-based model of instruction that provides Learning Strategies and Content Enhancement Routines geared especially towards students who are struggling to learn in the classroom, including those with specific learning difficulties.

The SIM® workshops require instruction by a University of Kansas Center for Research on Learning-approved Professional Developer. Cost for each two-day workshop is $275. This includes refreshment breaks, a parking pass, two instructor’s manuals, two student lessons books, packets of training materials, as well as supplemental handouts and PowerPoint presentation sent electronically following the workshop to augment instruction. For more information on these and other workshops or to register online, visit the UGA College of Education’s Office of Outreach & Engagement: www.coe.uga.edu/events/