Creative ideas and activities enhance your reading program. Learning Resources Provides a variety of sample learning centers that emphasize design and creative activities.
Participant creates hands-on activities.
The purpose of this course is to help current classroom teachers be even more knowledgeable and efficient in the teaching of reading. This series should assist teachers not only to know, but also to be able to perform professional practices of effective reading teachers. This course acquaints teachers with national certification as designed by the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards. Students have an opportunity to review standards from different certificate areas and practice developing a professional portfolio similar to those required by candidates who participated in previous field test for national certification. This course explores applications of developmental theorists in the classroom setting and is delivered via video tapes and two face to face meetings.