These courses are on-demand and self-paced. Participants will receive a certificate of completion once all assignments are successfully completed, and a quiz is passed with at least 80%.

Building reading muscle requires training, perseverance, and constant progress monitoring. Participants will review intervention strategies that include timely response to intervention focused on strength and strategy. Strategic and differentiated interventions reviewed and practiced with will include cognitive questioning, vocabulary development, peer and teacher feedback, use of graphic organizers and reflective self-monitoring strategies as they apply to middle-level learners.

Course Outcomes:

  • Investigate and construct intervention strategies focused on response to intervention.
  • Apply strategies to differentiate instruction for struggling learners.
  • Identify, produce and implement vocabulary and questioning strategies combined with consistent use of teacher and peer feedback to build reading muscle.

This course is 20 hours

In this e-course, participants will examine effective strategy for reading comprehension in intermediate grades, and how it scaffolds across content, grade-level, and reading/writing genre. Approaches include text structure, reciprocal teaching, use of graphic organizers, literature webbing, and building background knowledge through the use of questioning. All strategies under study will include tools for implementation.

Course Outcomes:

  • Design, differentiate and experiment with strategies that teach effective reading comprehension in intermediate grades.
  • Scaffold individualized instruction across multiple content area, grades and reading/writing genre.
  • Evaluate and justify the explicit instruction and teacher modeling methods behind effective reading comprehension curriculum.
  • Teach reading comprehension through scaffolding strategies across multiple reading and writing genres in core content areas.

This course is 20 hours

Using a tiered instructional framework model, participants will learn how to deliver sound, research-based instruction focused on specific student challenges. Through high quality, differentiated and scientifically based instruction, participants will learn how to scaffold learning strategy carefully with increased intensity to meet students at their identified level of performance and rate of progress as leveraged with SLOs, IEP goals, and standards criteria. Increased achievement and closing learning gaps are priorities when intervening strategically for Tiers II and III students.

Course Outcomes:

  • Explain how to use tiered instructional models to close achievement gaps among Tiers II and III students.
  • Know and operate with the assessment procedures needed to progress monitor effectively in order to deliver effective and timely interventions for RtI students.
  • Practice with various differentiated, scientifically based instructional technique to address students needs.
  • Outline plans using curriculum and content geared toward meeting the instructional needs of Tiers II and III students using tiered intervention strategies.

This course is 20 hours

Through a tiered instructional framework, participants will be introduced to tools and resources for effective diagnosis of learning and student progress monitoring. Through high quality, differentiated and scientifically based instructional strategy, participants will learn how to scaffold learning carefully and thoughtfully with increased intensity using the tools to meet students at their individual level of performance, level of ability and rate of progress as leveraged with SLOs, IEPs, and standards for learning.

Course Outcomes:

  • Employ tiered instructional models to close achievement gaps among Tiers II and III students.
  • Generalize and devise utility with the assessment procedures needed to progress monitor effectively in order to deliver effective and timely interventions for RtI students.
  • Demonstrate with various differentiated, scientifically based instructional technique to address students needs with.
  • Construct curriculum and content geared toward meeting the instructional needs of Tiers II and III students using tiered intervention strategies.

This course is 20 hours