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From: Cindy Franklin
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Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2005 8:46 AM
Subject: Free Online Professional Development for Teachers
Librarian,
Please share this information with administrators and teachers:
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USDE Expanding Free Online Professional Development Offerings for Teachers
The U.S. Department of Education (the Department) is adding new sessions to its Teacher-to-Teacher free online professional development Web site, which focuses on improving teachers' content knowledge and teaching skills in reading, math and science. Thousands of teachers have already viewed sessions at the site
The Department is continuing to work to support teachers by seeking state approval of these free, online professional development sessions. Texas has agreed to accept these e-learning sessions as credit toward teacher re-licensure. Many teachers are also using these sessions to earn credit or points to meet the state's High Objective Uniform State Standard of Evaluation (HOUSE) to become highly qualified.
Fifteen sessions are currently available at www.ed.gov/teacherinitiative. In the next few months, the following eight additional sessions will be added to the Web site:
Building Fluency: Do It Well and Do It Right
Scheduled for: 4/5/2005
Monitoring Comprehension
Scheduled for: 3/8/2005
Phonics: The Building Blocks of Early Reading
Scheduled for: 3/22/2005
Early Steps Count: Teaching Arithmetic to Prepare Students for Algebra
Scheduled for: 2/24/2005
Feedback: A Powerful Tool for Raising Student Achievement in Mathematics
Scheduled for: 3/29/2005
Building Teacher Leaders
Scheduled for: 3/1/2005
Exciting Teachers and Improving Student Achievement With Standards-Based Data
Scheduled for: 4/12/2005
Sessions already available free online at www.ed.gov/teacherinitiative are:
Beginning to Write
Examining Student Work: A Protocol for Improving Reading
Looking at Vocabulary
Phonemic Awareness
Reading in the Content Areas: It's Just Different
Feedback: A Powerful Tool for Raising Student Achievement in Language Arts
Developing Computational Fluency in Addition and Subtraction
Measurement and Geometry: Building Conceptual Understanding in Young Children
Patterns to Symbols: Algebra
Standards-Based Differentiated Math
Taking the "Dense" Out of Density
Using Technology to Enhance Algebra Instruction
Differentiated Instruction
No Child Left Behind Basics
Standards-Based Education and Student Report Cards
Turning Data Into Information
USDE will continue to send e-mail updates as more states recognize its free professional development as a pathway to satisfying re-licensure requirements. To learn more and sign-up for free e-mail updates on the Teacher-to-Teacher Initiative, please visit www.ed.gov/teacherinitiative or call toll-free 1-800-USA-LEARN.
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Cindy Franklin
Library & Technology Specialist
Region III ESC
361-573-0731 ext. 277
email: cfranklin at esc3.net
website: http://www.esc3.net/mlib/
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