The video tutorials give answers to questions commonly asked by teachers and administrators about using electronic resources.

(Note that the trainer often refers to the CD-ROM. These resources are now also available online at http://www.awardreadingonline.com)

• 1. In regard to ELLs, what should a Balanced Literacy Program contain?
• 2. How does technology support a Literacy Program?
• 3. Using AWARD as an intervention model for ELLs.
• 4. AWARD Components to Support English Language Learner
• 5. Working with a Narrative text
• 6. Working with an Informational text

 

AWARD Reading Courses

AWARD Reading offers Professional Development Services for Enhancing Education Through Technology

All courses are aligned with programs receiving stimulus funding.
• Title I, Part A
• Title II, Part D – EETT
• IDEA
• Early Childhood

Course 1: Print Partnering Technology K–3 Classrooms

Course 2: Formative Assessment

Course 3: Print Partnering Technology: Using Informational Texts and CD-ROMs successfully in K–3 classrooms

Additional Professional Learning

 

 

Course 1: Print Partnering Technology K–3 Classrooms

The course includes:

• How the literacy program is organized to ensure print partners technology successfully. Teachers view K–3 AWARD classrooms in action and discuss the important features of organization, implementation, and the significance of a print partnering technology approach to classroom practice.

• Discussion about how to:

– successfully integrate instructional technology and print to accelerate reading achievement for all children, K–3;
– integrate technology successfully into every shared, small group, and independent reading experience;
– provide comprehensive skills development with practice and application every day through teaching, texts, and technology in the five key areas of reading—phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary, comprehension, and fluency;
– make assessment an integral part of the classroom reading program, and design it to be a positive force in the teaching/learning process. (AWARD assessment includes easy-to-use computer-assisted tasks that provide a personalized profile of each child’s knowledge and progress.)

• A detailed exploration of the AWARD program

Participating teachers would read the narrative and informational texts, play the CD-ROMs, do the assessment, and look closely at the Teachers’ Guides. Teachers can explore how all the materials in AWARD are organized on a five-day weekly plan to ensure successful classroom practice using technology and print every day.

Course 2: Formative Assessment

Learn how:

• to create a literacy learning environment where instruction is guided by formative assessment;

• formative assessment is instrumental in closing the achievement gap between children;

• to monitor each child’s learning, and to collect and organize information and data to shape effective instruction.

 

Course 3: Print Partnering Technology: Using Informational Texts and CD-ROMs successfully in K–3 classrooms

• Learn how children become independent learners and enquirers through engaging text and interactive technology.

 

Additional Professional Learning

Teachers will be linked by email and to an online forum to develop a community of learners who
share their ideas about effective teaching and learning.

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