LEP 101
This course will prepare you as you take on the role of a LEP Coordinator or ESL Teacher. You may be a new ESL teacher or have been assigned the role of a LEP Coordinator without receiving any training.
Although you may already know theories or strategies for teaching ESL students, this course is like a manual to teach you the policies, procedures, and required duties that accompany your job dealing with LEP students specifically in NC schools. All material in the course is based on North Carolina LEP policy and is created with the input of the DPI ESL Consultants.
The Connected Writer
Embrace blogging as a way to enhance your students' writing and to reach your own curriculum goals. Writing platforms like blogs, wikis, and forums inspire opportunities for collaboration, peer review, and critical thinking that traditional writing assignments cannot.
Fear not -- we won't send you into the wilderness of social media without a map. You'll learn about not just the available tools, but also internet safety considerations, evaluation materials like rubrics and surveys, examples of successful classroom blogs and blogging assignments, and a variety of web-based platforms specifically designed for education purposes. In addition, throughout the course you will have many opportunities for self-reflection and professional collaboration with educators from across the state.
Best Practices for Vocabulary Instruction in Elementary School
A broad vocabulary is crucial to reading with fluency and comprehension. Because most words are learned indirectly through multiple exposures, it is important to teach word learning strategies. Good vocabulary instruction means fostering word consciousness -- the interest and motivation to learn and use new words.
This course will teach you to create a classroom culture of word consciousness. You'll learn how to model and to encourage independent word-learning strategies that your students can apply while engaging in wide and varied reading. You will also explore the value of instructing students in grades 3 through 5 how to infer the meaning of words from context and word parts.
Financial Literacy Across the Curriculum
Countless students are graduating high school financially illiterate, and overall, as American and world citizens, we are struggling economically. Financial literacy isn't a luxury, but a necessity for every child in every school in America.
Everything you do in this course will relate to developing effective lesson plans and strategies you can use in your own classroom, in addition to fulfilling recommendations of 21st Century Schools. You'll participate in a collaborative environment where a variety of activities and assignments will help you learn the specifics of financial literacy, differentiation, and their relationship to the 21st Century Schools goals. You'll leave the course having completed an integrated financial literacy lesson plan that fulfills recommendations of 21st Century Schools, as well as features differentiated design principles to better communicate this important content to all learners.
Project-Based Learning in the 21st Century
Inspire your students by connecting classroom content to real-world situations. Project-based learning promotes a more engaging learning experience than traditional, text-based classroom activities, helping students gain cross-curricular skills and take ownership of their learning experience.
In this course you will collaborate with peers from across North Carolina to share ideas, learn about available resources, and discuss different perspectives of project-based learning, student achievement, interdisciplinary curriculum, and standards. As a final product, you will create a project-based learning assignment you can use in your own classroom.
Reading First: Supporting Early Reading Instruction with Technology
Participants in this workshop will discover the many ways in which new technologies can support classroom reading instruction in kindergarten through third grade. As they examine existing research on literacy technologies, participants will also review or familiarize themselves with the five areas of instruction discussed in the National Reading Panel's 2000 report on early reading: phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and text comprehension. The workshop will put special emphasis on evidence-based uses of technology for reading instruction.
Teaching Writing in the Elementary Classroom
All students have the capacity to be good writers, and writers learn to write by writing. These are the basic tenets of this workshop, during which participants will learn instructional strategies to teach upper-elementary students how to write narrative and informational text.
Participants will explore how to teach their students about the traits of good writing through mini-lessons and writing workshops, and how to use established criteria to evaluate writing. Participants will also recognize that writing is a process and consider how to organize instruction to guide students through the stages of that process. This course will take participants through the instructional cycle, from writing prompt to revision as they create their final projects.
Innovate to Transform the Classroom with Web 2.0 Tools
K-12 education has entered a new technological era. In increasingly dynamic educational settings, technological resources can be integrated into the curriculum to promote student engagement and achievement. In order to take advantage of these settings, teachers need to have the appropriate knowledge and experience.
In this course, you will learn to integrate technologies such as Web 2.0 tools and mobile learning devices to create engaging learning experiences for your students. By taking advantage of the latest classroom technology, you can help your students communicate, share ideas, and collaborate with students across the globe.
Promoting Reading Comprehension Skills in the Elementary School Classroom
Researchers have identified the strategies that expert readers use to understand text. Develop your students into active, purposeful readers by teaching these strategies in your classroom.
In this course, you'll study teaching techniques that help students in grades 3 through 5 develop concrete strategies for constructing meaning from both narrative and expository text. You'll collaborate with educators from across the state and explore cutting-edge instructional procedures designed to bolster students' key comprehension strategies.
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