Greetings from the Learning Bridges Team!
We want to provide YOU with FREE resources
and focus on special opportunities that might be helpful for your school improvement efforts.
We invite you to print the resources
that you can use in your classroom or school. We also hope you will share the newsletter
with your colleagues so that they might also receive the FREE resources. When it
is possible, we will connect the resources to your
state's content standards - whether those are
research-based instructional strategies/interventions or parent
activities.
We will feature one of the powerful online courses, an instructor, and a teaching
resource - all connected to your state standards and assessments.
WE WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU!
When you try an instructional strategy, share a parent activity with parents, complete
online professional development, or use one of the teaching resources, we hope you
will come back and share your
thoughts with us online. Read what other teachers have said, too!
We invite you to join our team as a Bridge to a New Way of Teaching and Learning!
Greetings from the Learning Bridges Team!
We want to provide YOU with FREE resources and focus on special opportunities that might be helpful for your school improvement efforts.
We invite you to print the resources that you can use in your classroom or school. We also hope you will share the newsletter with your colleagues so that they might also receive the FREE resources. When it is possible, we will connect the resources to your state's content standards - whether those are research-based instructional strategies/interventions or parent activities.
We will feature one of the powerful online courses, an instructor, and a teaching resource - all connected to your state standards and assessments.
WE WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU!
When you try an instructional strategy, share a parent activity with parents, complete online professional development, or use one of the teaching resources, we hope you will come back and share your thoughts with us online. Read what other teachers have said, too!
We invite you to join our team as a Bridge to a New Way of Teaching and Learning!
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Featured Online Class - EDCI 607J Effective Instructional Strategies
For: All content areas, classroom teachers K - 12, Special Education, Title I, Gifted and Talented, ELL Teachers, Culturally Diverse, Mentors, Coaches
An effective teacher develops a repertoire of diverse instructional strategies, a box of tasty classroom recipes to engage students in meaningful educational experiences. Learn ten (10) powerful instructional strategies that improve academic achievement – Planning and Prioritizing, Engaging, Comparing, Questioning, Reflecting, Graphic Representations, Summarizing, Providing Feedback, Thinking Critically, and Cooperating.
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FREE Instructional Strategy - Reading Texts for Information
For: All Content Areas, Grades 3 - 5, Mentors, Coaches, Special Education, Title I, ELL Teachers, Gifted and Talented
Content: Reading Texts for Information
Standard: Summarizes and paraphrases information in texts (e.g., identifies main ideas and supporting details
Summarizing is a skill used in both oral and written communication that restates the topic sentence or main idea and key supporting points that the writer or speaker believes critical to be remembered. Summarizing is a strategy that is critical to comprehension of all content information. It is a basic skill essential for higher level thinking. Summarizing skills are taught at all grade levels, becoming more complex in middle school and high school. For students in grades 3 – 5, the focus is on identifying the main idea and supporting details of information, as well as differentiating between the two concepts.
Impact on Learning: 35 percentile points
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FREE Parent Activity - Reading Comprehension
Standard: Reading Comprehension
Make and confirm predictions about what will happen next in a text.
Making and confirming predictions about what will happen in stories is very important in developing comprehension skills in young readers. The skill increases in complexity as students move through the grade levels. Parents who read to their children daily can assist them in attaining the skills of making and confirming predictions during reading.
A FREE Parent Activity for you to send home with your students to engage parents with their child’s learning in support of your classroom instruction.
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Featured Instructor - Cindy Casillas
Hi! My name is Cindy Casillas. I have been with the Learning Bridges team since 2003. I am an instructor for many different courses, and Classroom Management is my favorite. It has been a fun and rewarding experience. I learn so much from the participants and love the interaction between educators. I have been teaching kindergarten, full time for sixteen years, but am looping with my class this coming year to first grade. I am looking forward to the challenge!
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Featured Teaching Resource - Culturally Proficient Instruction
Culturally Proficient Instruction
A Guide for People Who Teach
Kikanza Nuri Robins
Culture determines where children focus their attention and what they value enough to learn in school. This resource will provide teachers with the essentials to assure success of all learners.
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Discussion Topic - What do YOU think?
Many alternative licensure programs are being flocked by career changers who are dissatisfied with their work or who have been laid off. They are engaged in intensive summer training to prepare them for teaching positions this fall. About one-third of all first year teachers in many states are certified through alternative licensure programs. What is your experience with alternative licensure programs, and how are career changers supported in your schools? Should these fast-track licensure programs be expanded to provide more teachers in areas in which there are severe teacher shortages, such as in urban schools, special education, mathematics, and science?
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