2012-2013 BEST Professional Development Course Descriptions
Achievement Gaps: The
Path to Equity
An Introduction to Teaching
English Language Learners
Classroom Management:
Understanding Diverse
Learning Needs
Common Core and Literacy
Strategies: English
Language Arts
Common Core and Literacy
Strategies: Mathematics
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This course explores the many factors that
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contribute to unequal patterns of
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achievement among different groups of
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students. One inescapable reality lies at the
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root of the problem: disparities in
achievement occur because some students
are better prepared to achieve than others.
Although educators can address some of the
issues that affect students readiness to learn,
it will take a network of concerned people
and institutions to help students overcome
other barriers to academic achievement.
In this course, participants will review the
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traditional native vs. non-native speaker
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different from teaching other subjects.
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Innovative approaches like Communicative
Language Teaching and the lexical approach
will be explored. Strategies for teaching
vocabulary, grammar, listening, speaking,
reading, and writing are introduced.
Participants will learn how to design fair and
accurate tests and how to choose the most
appropriate materials and activities for the
classroom.
In the past, many students with diverse
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learning needs remained within the realm of
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the special education teacher. As our
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educational system has moved toward a
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model encouraging the least restrictive
environment for all students, more and more
students with diverse learning needs are now
included in the regular classroom. These
students deserve the same learning gains we
would expect for all of our students and to
be treated with dignity.
In Common Core and Literacy Strategies:
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Common Core State Standards (CCSS)
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approach literacy in new and important
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ways. You will see a new emphasis on critical
thinking skills in the area of reading, writing,
speaking, and listening. Through video
examples, in-depth readings, and
downloadable applications, you’ll learn
practical ways to put CCSS to work in
classrooms.
In Common Core and Literacy Strategies:
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Mathematics you’ll explore how the
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approach literacy in new and important
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Common Core and Literacy
Strategies: Science
Common Core and Literacy
Strategies: History/Social
Studies
Common Core and
Mathematics: Grades K-5
Common Core and
Mathematics: Grades 6-8
Common Core and
Mathematics: Grades 9-12
thinking skills in the areas of arithmetic, word
problems, and other mathematical
foundations. Through video examples, indepth readings, and downloadable
applications, you’ll learn practical ways to
put CCSS to work in classrooms.
In Common Core and Literacy Strategies:
Science, you’ll explore how the Common
Core State Standards approach literacy in
new and important ways. You will see a new
emphasis on critical-thinking skills in the area
of reading, writing, speaking, and listening.
Through video examples, in-depth readings,
and downloadable application activities,
you’ll learn practical ways to put the
standards to work in your classroom.
In Common Core and Literacy Strategies:
History/Social Studies, you’ll explore how the
Common Core State Standards (CCSS)
approach literacy in new and important
ways. You will see a strong emphasis on
literacy as a means for improving critical
thinking skills. You’ll discover that the CCSS
have unique reading and writing standards
for literacy in history/social studies for
grades 6-12. Through video examples, indepth readings, and downloadable
applications, you’ll learn practical ways to
put CCSS to work in your classroom.
In the Common Core and Mathematics:
Grades K-5, you will explore the Common
Core State Standards for Mathematics
(CCSSM). This course will provide information
on the background of the new standards as
well as details on the standards for content
and the standards for practice. Additionally,
the course covers the six domains for grades
K-5 including strategies, ideas for
assessment, and common misconceptions.
By the end of this course, you will have an
understanding of these topics, along with
some ideas and tools on how to implement
the CCSSM in your classroom.
In the Common Core and Mathematics:
Grades 6–8, you will explore the Common
Core Standards for Mathematics (CCSSM).
This course will provide information on the
background of the new standards as well as
details on the standards for content and the
standards for practice. Additionally, the
course covers the six domains for grades 6–8,
including strategies, ideas for assessment,
and common misconceptions.
In this course, you not only learn what the
Common Core State Standards for
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Content-Based Instruction
for English Language
Learners, 2nd Edition
Differentiated Instruction:
Leading and Managing a
Differentiated Classroom
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An Introduction
Differentiated Instruction:
Creating an Environment
that Supports Learning
Mathematics (CCSSM) are; you will also go
beyond these basics to take a detailed looked
look at the standards for content and for
practice. You will investigate each of the six
conceptual categories and review relevant
strategies, tools, and resources.
In this course, you’ll examine the main
characteristics and types of content-based
instruction for English language learners.
You’ll see how teachers balance the dual
focus on language and subject matter and
learn about a helpful framework for
designing content-based courses and lessons.
You’ll also consider different criteria for
choosing and developing the content taught,
as well as factors influencing the choice,
development, and adaptation of materials.
Leading and Managing a Differentiated
Classroom, you will examine issues and
strategies for leading a differentiated
classroom and managing the many details
necessary for the class to run smoothly. You
will explore how the teacher’s vision sets the
stage for students’ confidence and
effectiveness in a responsive classroom. You
will also discover the direct link between
teachers’ mindsets and their actions in the
classroom, which influence how students
come to see themselves as learners. In
addition, you will learn to create buy-in from
students, parents, and other stakeholders,
which leads to effective partnerships.
An Introduction, you will build a conceptual
understanding of the model of differentiated
instruction (DI), including the philosophical
underpinnings of this model. You will explore
key characteristics and elements of
differentiated instruction, as well as beliefs
that guide the DI model and five
nonnegotiables of differentiated instruction:
an environment that supports learning, highquality curriculum, ongoing assessment to
inform instruction, instruction that responds
to student differences, and leadership and
flexible classroom management. You will also
discover how differentiated classrooms differ
from traditional classrooms and what
concerns teachers have about practicing
differentiated instruction. Finally, you will
review the steps for getting started with
differentiated instruction.
Creating an Environment That Supports
Learning, you will gain an understanding of
the role that a classroom environment plays
in differentiated instruction. Throughout this
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Differentiated Instruction:
Teaching with Student
Differences in Mind
Differentiated Instruction:
The Curriculum Connection
Differentiated Instruction:
Using Ongoing Assessment
to Inform Instruction
English Language Learners
in the Mainstream
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Formative Assessment:
Deepening Understanding
course, you will explore the key elements of
a supportive environment that encourage
the implementation of the philosophy of
differentiation.
Teaching with Student Differences in Mind,
you will learn how teachers in a
differentiated classroom plan for
differentiation for readiness, interest, and
learning profile, using multiple instructional
strategies. You will also see how many of the
components of differentiation previously
discussed in this suite of courses come
together to ensure solid planning and
execution of high-quality differentiation.
The Curriculum Connection directly
addresses one of five nonnegotiables of
differentiated instruction: the role of
curriculum in designing and delivering highquality differentiated instruction. In this
course, you will explore the attributes of
high-quality curriculum and what it means to
teach for understanding. You'll discover how
teachers in a differentiated classroom write
objectives that adhere to standards
documents. Finally, you will examine the role
of rigor and relevance in designing
differentiated curriculum that leads to these
objectives.
Using Ongoing Assessment to Inform
Instruction, you will learn how teachers in a
differentiated classroom plan for ongoing
assessment and use information collected
from assessments to inform instruction.
This course aims to prepare teachers to work
more effectively with English language
learners in mainstream classes. Among other
goals, participants will learn how
demographic changes affect schools, the
importance of culture when teaching ELL
students, and supportive strategies that can
be implemented in any classroom.
Discover a range of best-practice methods
for providing students with meaningful,
interactive feedback.
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Formative Assessment:
The Basics
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This course defines formative assessment
and discusses how to use it in the classroom.
Participants will explore how to provide
meaningful feedback and consider how
students can be active in the assessment
process. The course features perspectives of
educators who have worked extensively to
improve assessment in schools.
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Literacy Strategies for
Learning
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Literacy Strategies:
Phonemic Awareness and
Vocabulary Building
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1.4
Multiple Intelligences:
Strengthening Your
Teaching
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1.4
Response to Intervention:
An Introduction
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Teaching with Poverty in
Mind
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The Art and Science of
Teaching
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This course will help participants understand
why its important for every teacher to
become involved in teaching students how to
read, write, and comprehend the subject
matter being presented to them and provide
teaching strategies in the content areas.
Participants will consider the rationale for
building literacy skills and learn several
strategies relevant to different content areas.
Although this course doesn’t endorse any
single approach to reading instruction, it is
designed, instead, to share some strategies
that have been effective in helping students
learn to read, including defining phonemic
awareness and phonics. These strategies will
be isolated and fully explored, but are part of
a broader approach to teaching reading.
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Strengthening Your Teaching, you’ll explore
the theory and application of Howard
Gardner’s multiple intelligences (MI) for the
21st century classroom. Through videos, indepth readings, and applications, you’ll
assess your own strengths and weaknesses,
learn tools for assessing your students, and
explore specific ideas and techniques for
supporting MI in classroom curriculum and
activities.
This course clarifies the purpose and
requirements of Response to Intervention
(RTI) and provides examples of what the
three major components (assessment,
interventions, and problem-solving process)
might look like in secondary schools. This
course also provides practical strategies for
implementing the RTI framework in your
classroom or school.
Teaching with Poverty in Mind will introduce
you to the latest research on poverty and
how it affects students' cognitive
development and academic performance. In
this course, you will learn how to
differentiate among different types of
poverty and understand the unique aspects
and effects of each; you will learn about the
real, physical effects that poverty can have
on a developing brain; and you will learn
schoolwide and classroom-level strategies for
countering those negative effects to help
your students grow, thrive, and find
academic success.
Robert Marzano guides you through a
framework for classroom practice using 10
questions for guiding and planning an
effective instructional unit.
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1.4
The Brain: Developing
Lifelong Learning Habits
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The Brian: Memory and
Learning Strategies
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1.4
Understanding by Design
and Common Core:
English/Language Arts
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and Common Core:
Mathematics
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Understanding Student
Motivation
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Your First Year of Teaching:
Surviving and Thriving
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Developing Lifelong Learning Habits, you will
learn about the thinking and learning skills
that today’s students should be cultivating to
become successful adults in the dynamic,
rapidly changing, and “flattened? world into
which they will graduate..
Memory and Learning Strategies, you will
learn about the physical structures of the
human brain that create and retain
memories—and how to use this information
to improve your classroom teaching practice.
The more you understand about how people
form and retain memories, the more you will
be able to help your students learn and use
the academic content you are teaching them.
English Language Arts, you’ll explore how the
Common Core State Standards (CCSS)
approach literacy in new and important
ways. You will see a new emphasis on critical
thinking skills in the area of reading, writing,
speaking, and listening. Through video
examples, in-depth readings, and
downloadable applications, you’ll learn
practical ways to put CCSS to work in
classrooms.
With 46 states adopting the Common Core
State Standards, teachers and school leaders
are searching for resources and support for
implementation. In this course, Jay McTighe
and Grant Wiggins explain the relationship
between this standards movement and the
Understanding by Design® (UbD™) template
for planning units of instruction.
In Understanding Student Motivation, you’ll
examine the basics of motivation and the
role that motivation plays in academic
performance. Through readings, video
examples, and application exercises, you’ll
learn how to establish strategies to create a
respectful and connected classroom, balance
structure and choice to create a positive
attitude toward learning, set expectations,
create challenging and engaging activities
that are personally relevant to students, and
develop strategies to help students feel more
competent and confident in the classroom.
This course is designed to help new teachers
succeed in their first year of teaching.
Although college coursework has prepared
teachers for many of the experiences theyll
encounter during this first year, much of
what theyll face may not have been covered.
This course will help prepare new teachers
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for the realities and challenges of the
classroom.
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