Crocco

6th Annual Mary Hepburn Lectureship in Social Studies Education

“Sustainability and Social Studies: Perfect Together”

Margaret Crocco
Visiting Scholar at Michigan State University

Crocco will explore sustainability education in relation to democratic dialogue and civic engagement. Drawing on issues of difference, gender and poverty, as well as the use of film as a teaching tool, the scope of Crocco’s talk will appeal to a broad range of students and faculty in the College of Education.

Lamar Dodd School of Art
Room S151

A catered reception will be held prior to the lecture at 5:30 p.m.  in the atrium.

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, Ga. 30605

For more information and to register online, visit the website.

This three-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 September 26-27, 2013 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

For more information and online registration visit the website.