Literacy
The Academy’s literacy program
provides K-12 teachers with the instructional strategies, skills, and
resources necessary to effectively teach the reading and writing curriculum
in the North Carolina Standard Course of Study. Five new workshops
provide K-2 teachers with research-based strategies required to build a
comprehensive reading program to meet the requirements of the Reading
First grant in the No Child Left Behind legislation. Additional
workshops for K-8 teachers are designed to provide a better understanding of
a variety of reading approaches that enable them to design lessons that
teach to a student’s learning strengths. Through the implementation of
practical strategies for reading and writing in content areas, grades 6-12
teachers learn to link literacy to creating student autonomy in the learning
process.
- Integrating Informational Text and
Comprehension Strategies
- Creating an Informational Text Environment
- Early Literacy Series:
- Phonemic Awareness
- Phonics
- Vocabulary
- Fluency
- Comprehension
- DIBELS (Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early
Literacy Skills)
- Applying Learning Styles to Literacy
Instruction
- Foundations: Wilson Language Basics for
K-2
- Slow-Paced Recorded Books
- The Four Blocks: A Framework for Reading
and Writing
- Guided Reading
- Strategies for Retelling
- Literature Circles
- A Focus on Comprehension
- C.A.R.E (Creating Alternative Resources
for Everyone)
- Oral Response to Literature
- Literature Conversations
- Lifebooks for Writers and Readers
- Poetry
- Craft Lessons
- Drama/Storytelling
- Inquiry for the Tactile/Kinesthetic
Student
- Process approaches to reading and writing
of development of language
- Telling Your Story
- Reading Response to Fiction
- Making Your Case
- Reading for Information
- Reading in the Content Areas
- Revitalizing Vocabulary
- Writing to Learn in the Content Areas
- Getting It Right for the North Carolina
Writing Assessment
- Project CRISS
Mathematics
- Proportional Reasoning: An Overview
- Unpacking Proportional Reasoning in Middle
Grades
- Developing Arithmetic Reasoning through
Modeling of Problems
Available summer 2008 - New
- Developing Computational Skills Based on
Children's Thinking
Available summer 2008 - New
- Algebraic Reasoning: An Overview
Available summer 2008 - New
- Developing Algebraic Reasoning in Middle
Grades
Available summer 2008 - New
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Curriculum
Integration
Integrating Curriculum workshops are
designed to promote teacher collaboration in order to develop integrated
units of study for middle and high schools. The units developed by
participants utilize the North Carolina Standard Course of Study and
state competencies, with the ultimate goal of improving student achievement.
- Integration: The First Step
- Integration: Finding Common Ground
- Integration: Assessing Interdisciplinary
Units
Curriculum
Mapping
Heidi Hayes Jacobs defines Curriculum
Mapping as “… a procedure for collecting data about the actual curriculum in
a school or district using the school calendar as an organizer.” It
facilitates long range planning, short term preparation, and clear
communication. Participants are guided in designing Essential Questions as
conceptual priorities for units of study. Curriculum Mapping provides a
clear picture of where the gaps and redundancies are located in the
curriculum and shows how to effectively eliminate them.
- Overview: Exploring Curriculum Mapping
- Developing a Curriculum Map
- Writing the Curriculum Map
Technology
The Instructional Technology
professional development provides teachers with the skills they need to make
technology an instructional tool while creating student-centered classrooms.
Our students use technology in every facet of their lives and the
instructional day should incorporate that same technology seamlessly into
the curriculum. Hands-on workshops are offered which help teachers learn how
to use the tools of technology available to them in their schools and how to
integrate those tools into their instructional plans. In order to receive
the greatest benefit from one of these hands-on workshops, the following are
recommended: a limit of 20 participants per trainer, a computer presentation
station to be used by the presenter, internet access, a technical support
person from the school to facilitate the set-up prior to the workshop and
provide support during the workshop.
- Integration of Technology into the
Curriculum
- Multimedia Presentation Skills
- The Use of Graphic Organizers
- Use of the Internet as an Instructional
Tool
- Electronic Portfolios
- Handheld Computing
- Web Page Design
- WebQuest Development
- Technology Enhanced Literacy Skills
Science
- Physical Science is Elementary
Available summer 2008 - New
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