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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, these Web seminars offer discussion, direction, and concrete examples that you can use.
Easing Your Transition to Teaching Writing Online
DATE | Thursday, April 08, 2010
TIME | 04:00–05:00 pm EST
Many instructors freeze at the prospect of teaching online, thinking of it as a vast, unknowable digital space requiring specialized tools and, worse, specialized pedagogy. Not true. Writing teaches can move into an online course by drawing from that most familiar of places: Their own teaching experience. This, the first of three Webinars about teaching writing online, will provide instructors with strategies for reflecting on one’s teaching strengths and then converting those strengths into an online course experience. Outcomes: Audience members will learn
- To self-assess their own teaching strategies, developing a list of teaching strengths and interests.
- About the various electronic tools and options.
- To find and use the right technology tools for their teaching style.
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.
