Teacher Institutes

Reading/Language Arts (K-6)

Five-Day Training

The 40-hour SB 472 institutes provide grade-level, program specific, introductory training based on the district’s reading/language arts program. The institutes focus on the academic content standards, research-based instructional strategies, assessment, and universal access for diverse learners. This interactive, program-specific training prepares teachers to incorporate acquired skills into daily classroom practice by actively engaging in lesson study and modeling.

This course prepares teachers for the first 10 weeks of the instructional program. Participants will . . .

understand the interdependence of each of the components of the program
connect the program materials to the California Framework and English/Language Arts Standards
relate classroom practices to the scientific research behind the program
practice guiding instruction from information that will be provided by ongoing monitoring assessments
explore how grade-level team meetings are organized to study assessment data
learn to plan appropriate instruction based on the assessment data

Three-Day Training

This training provides grade-level, introductory professional development based on the district’s reading/language arts program. This course prepares participants to teach the first ten weeks of the curriculum. In this interactive, program-specific training participants will study and learn the interdependence of the program components. The three-day training will focus on:

Program Organization
Materials
Assessment
Lesson Strands in the Core
Universal Access
English Learner Support Materials
Additional Program Support Materials

One-Day Training

This training provides grade-level, introductory professional development based on the district’s reading/language arts program. The one-day training will focus on:

Program Organization
Materials
Instructional Delivery
Assessment
English Learner Support Materials

Three-Hour Modules

These grade-level specific modules are designed to introduce and explore components of the district’s reading/language arts program. In these interactive, program-specific modules, participants will study and learn about the curriculum. Three-hour modules are available for:

Assessment
English Language Learner Support Materials
From Research to Practice
Introduction to the Program
Universal Access
Additional Program Support Materials

RLC provides Instructional Materials Training for 2002 and 2008 California state-adopted K-6 reading/language arts programs.

Training beyond the first 10-weeks (K-6)

Year 2 (Level 2) training for each grade level, K-6 (Foro abierto para la lectura, HM Lectura, HMR 2003, HMR 2005, OCR 2000, OCR 2002):

Provides participants with opportunities to discuss and reflect on their first year of teaching the district's reading/language arts program.
The course emphasizes the phases of direct teaching; refinement of instructional techniques to improve the pacing of instruction; practice of cognitive preparation; ways to effectively plan small group instruction; observation of teaching examples via videos; and the study of current research on reading.
Provides teachers the opportunity to read, study, and discuss both the scientific research and the program materials in order to reflect and build on their first year of teaching the program

Year 3 (Level 3) training for each grade level, K-6 (Foro abierto para la lectura, HM Lectura, HMR 2003, OCR 2000, OCR 2002):

Provides participants opportunities to read, study, and discuss the scientific research and to use the program materials to identify and plan strategies that support student achievement and independence in decoding (building fluency), reading comprehension, vocabulary, spelling, writing, and small group learning.
The training offers content background for participants regarding the structure of English; efficient and effective use of instructional time; teaching examples specific to a grade level via videos; and articulation between teaching language arts in kindergarten through third grade-how each grade level impacts one another.

Year 4 (Level 4) training for each grade level, K-6 (Foro abierto para la lectura, HM Lectura, HMR 2003, OCR 2000, OCR 2002):

Provides teachers who have taught the adopted curriculum in the same grade for three years, an opportunity to reflect on their program implementation and teaching of reading comprehension and writing.
The institute will engage teachers in reading and discussion of current research and instructional strategies that inform and enable them to refine the teaching.
Refining the teaching includes the understanding and practice of providing immediate corrective feedback during the daily core lessons as well as assessment-based small-group instruction that provides continual universal access to all students.

Questions? Contact rlcsupport@scoe.net