Lee Pesky Learning Center

Classes available at Lee Pesky Learning Center

Class Fee is $175

Learn about easy-to-administer classroom language arts assessment tools. Examine the importance of school-wide progress monitoring systems such as AIMSWEB^®, DIBELS^®, and CBM, to help you assess students and manage data.

Comprehensive Literacy Course: Standard I

Every Child Can Read and Succeed

Class Fee is $175 (includes class manual)

Teachers gain knowledge of the structure of our language and apply this knowledge to reading instruction. Teachers leave with guidelines for improving their students' reading skills. This class emphasizes direct and explicit instruction, systematic structured lessons and skill sequences, and multi-sensory presentation. Teachers receive a curriculum notebook and phonological awareness activity guide. This class meets the certification requirements for the state of Idaho.

Comprehensive Literacy Course: Standard II

Helping Students Unlock Meaning

Class Fee is $175 (includes class manual)

Teachers discover ways to incorporate research-based instructional methods into their favorite reading lessons and understand how to assess and improve reading skills for all students through hands-on activities and strategies. This class emphasizes comprehension and vocabulary instruction in the content areas which can be implemented immediately. This class meets the certification requirements for the state of Idaho.

Comprehensive Literacy Course: Standard III

Assessment and Intervention: Teach to Reach All

Class Fee is $175 (includes class manual)

To build skills in assessment and intervention, teachers are provided opportunities to sharpen observation skills within reading component areas. Brief assessment tools are practiced and interventions discussed. Teachers leave with a clearer picture of how assessment leads to effective instructional strategies: predicting, using prior knowledge, summarizing, identifying main idea, inferring information, visualizing, and recognizing test structures. Teachers also learn engaging techniques for teaching and reviewing vocabulary. This class meets the certification requirements for the state of Idaho.

LETRS provides educators with a core understanding of language structure and helps them gain in-depth instructional information to compliment their teaching practices. Rather than replacing the core basal reading program, LETRS brings deeper knowledge of reading instruction by addressing each component—phoneme awareness; phonics, decoding, spelling, and word study; oral language development; vocabulary; reading fluency; comprehension; and writing—as well as the foundational concepts that link them.

The LETRS program consists of twelve core print modules. Each of the individual LETRS modules covers a key ingredient of effective reading instruction. As a whole, the print modules are designed to serve as a complete professional development course for reading teachers and coaches at all grade levels. LETRS modules provide the foundational knowledge requirements that reading teachers and coaches at all grade levels can use to be more effective.

Lee Pesky Learning Center is currently offering:

Module 1: The Challenge of Learning to Read
Module 2: The Speech Sounds of English, Phonetics, Phonology, and Phoneme Awareness
Module 3: Spellography for Teachers: How English Spelling Works

Module 4: The Mighty Word: Building Vocabulary and Oral Language

Module 5: Getting up to Speed: Developing Fluency

Module 6: Digging for Meaning: Teaching Text Comprehension

Module 8: Assessment for Prevention and Early Intervention

Putting the Fun Back in Fluency

Class Fee is $175 (includes materials)

Tired of race reading with stopwatches? This class provides a variety of tools and programs to facilitate fluency in the classroom using engaging materials and strategies. Learn to develop fluency in your students through fun and interesting activities.

SIOP^® I: Strategies to Help Second Language Learners in the Classroom

Class Fee is $215 (includes text and training materials)

Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol (SIOP^®) is a lesson planning model that provides English language learners and limited language learners access to content and opportunities to practice language in a supportive setting. This model includes eight key components of instruction and thirty features. SIOP^® I covers four components: Lesson Preparation, Building Background Knowledge, Comprehensible Input, and Strategies. Participants receive Making Content Comprehensible for English Learners.

SIOP^® II: Strategies to Help Second Language Learners in the Classroom

Class Fee is $215 (includes text and training materials)

SIOP^® II explores the last four components of the model: Interaction, Practice/Application, Lesson Delivery, Indicators of Review/Assessment. To promote immediate use in the classroom, focus of the second day is on lesson planning using examples of the SIOP^®model lessons in various subject areas. Teachers will leave this class with plans that can be implemented immediately. Prerequisite SIOP^® I.

Teaching Math for Understanding

Class Fee is $175 (includes materials)

Participants will learn to design a classroom environment so that mathematical understanding, rather than mathematical skill, is the primary focus. Topics include:

· Defining “understanding”

· Designing mathematical tasks

· Developing the role of the teacher

· Fostering a culture of dialogue and reflection on mathematical processes

· Using mathematical tools effectively

· Making mathematics accessible to every student

· Assessing mathematical understanding

· Utilizing existing curricular resources (textbooks) and accessing alternative resources

Using DIBELS^® to Inform Instruction

Class Fee is $175 (includes materials)

The Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills (DIBELS^®) are a set of standardized, individually administered measures of early literacy development. They are short (one minute) fluency measures used to regularly monitor the development of early literacy and early reading skills. Teachers will gain an in-depth understanding of the conceptual and empirical foundations of DIBELS^®and receive in-depth training in administration and scoring of the measures.

Using SIOP^® in the Classroom

Class Fee is $175 (includes materials)

You've been through the SIOP^® training, now what? Learn to build background, achieve comprehensible input, plan, and assess your lessons with maximum engagement and motivation. Class focuses on a variety of activities for each SIOP^® component. Prerequisites: SIOP^® I and SIOP^® II

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Last Updated: 03/26/2008