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Online Professional Development
Recharge your teaching, learn new techniques and strategies, and connect with other literacy professionals—all without leaving your desk.
Designed to offer focused sessions on specific topics, our Web seminars offer discussion, direction, and concrete examples that you can use.
Literature Circles: Focusing on Differentiated Instruction
DATE | Wednesday, August 25, 2010
TIME | 04:00–05:00 pm ET
Literature circles are a proven strategy for meeting the needs of diverse student readers. This web seminar will provide specific strategies and classroom examples for the development and integration of differentiated instructional strategies for literature circles. Katie will demonstrate differentiated instructional strategies that include: reading logs, learning centers, and multimodal projects. In addition, she will share tools for student assessment in literature circles.
Copyright Clarity: What Every English Teacher Needs to Know
DATE | Tuesday, September 14, 2010
TIME | 05:00–06:00 pm ET
Educators and school leaders experience growing anxiety as students and teachers wonder about what they can (and cannot) do when it comes to using copyrighted materials, including books, online materials, images, and digital files. This presentation explains how copyright law relates to the types of instructional practices that are most commonly used by K-12 teachers. In this session, we’ll clarify:
- The difference between copyright infringement and plagiarism
- When it’s OK to make multiple photocopies and when it’s not
- The overall purpose of copyright law itself and how the doctrine of fair use applies to teaching and learning
- Differences between materials that are copyrighted and those that use a traditional fee-based licensing system or an alternative licensing system like Creative Commons
- Strategies for building students’ understanding of plagiarism, copyright and fair use
These programs offer a sustained approach to professional development, integrating a variety of tools from podcasts to live chats to classroom videos.
Pathways for Advancing Adolescent Literacy
A yearlong professional development program that address the unique needs of adolescent learners.
Pathways for Teaching and Learning with English Language Learners
A yearlong professional development program structured to support middle and secondary schools with key areas found to increase student achievement among ELLs.
Pathways for 21st Century Literacies
A yearlong professional development program focusing on what a 21st century curriculum and classroom practices look like.
