Effective vocabulary instruction is a key foundation to help students acquire a wide and diverse vocabulary. Students need both direct and indirect instruction of vocabulary and word meanings as well as multiple exposures to words. It is multiple exposures and repetition that students begin to understand the nuances of words and how to use them.
Tim Flores is an Instructional Coach for LEAP - Leading Educators through Alternative Pathways. He is a former English Language Development Coordinator/Instructor and Instructional Coach with 35 years of teaching experience in inner-city, rural, suburban, and Bureau of Indian Education... Read More →
How can teachers and students co-create a responsive, flexible curriculum that fosters authentic literacy? No curriculum is perfect. All curricula need the creative and critical thinking of students and teachers to adapt and implement them in meaningful ways. How do teachers and students work with the curricula they may be given while still ensuring that students read texts that resonate with them and produce meaningful writing for multiple contexts? Participants in this interactive workshop will get hands-on experience adapting the California State Expository Reading and Writing Course (ERWC) materials for their context. By exploring ERWC’s rhetorical approach to texts, participants learn how the ERWC modules prepare students to be adaptive communicators and critical thinkers who can transfer learning to new tasks and settings. Participants also explore ERWC resources that can be used with existing curriculum, including protocols for collaborative discussion and mini-units on genre, argument, and the rhetorical situation.
English teacher Los Alamos High School and Coach, California State University Expository Reading and Writing Course, LEAP Secondary ELA Methods, California State University Expository Reading and Writing Course
This session focuses on the Advanced Program Level micro-credentials for teacher licensure advancement. A brief description of the micro-credentials will be discussed as well as the role of school district and charter schools’ Human Resources and Finance Departments in verifying teacher eligibility for licensure advancement.
This workshop is designed to be a make and take meant to accompany the Multisensory Grammar lesson presented in Elementary Methods. You will learn how to make and use the materials for Multisensory Grammar, which is a different way of thinking about grammar in your classroom. *Pre-requisite: Participants must have attended the Elementary Methods Session on Multisensory Grammar in order to participate fully.
Jessica Powell is an educator with more than 25 years of experience at the elementary, secondary, and graduate levels working in both public and special purpose schools. She is a Certified Academic Language Therapist and Qualified Instructor through the Academic Language Therapy... Read More →
