Instructor: Joanna Smith

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T&L 2900: VIR: Building Academic Language, Grades 7-12

T&L 2900: VIR: Building Academic Language, Grades 7-12
This course is designed to equip 7-12 teachers with the knowledge, skills, and strategies required to help their students grasp language principles and develop the academic language skills they need to reach their highest levels of academic achievement across all grade bands and content areas.
July 1, 2021 to July 1, 2023

T&L 2900: VIR: Building Academic Language, Grades K-6

T&L 2900: VIR: Building Academic Language, Grades K-6
This course is designed to equip K-6 teachers with the knowledge, skills, and strategies required to help their students grasp language principles and develop the academic language skills they need to reach their highest levels of academic achievement across all grade bands and content areas.
July 1, 2021 to July 1, 2023

T&L 2900: VIR: Becoming a Culturally Responsive Teacher

T&L 2900: VIR: Becoming a Culturally Responsive Teacher
How do you reach students who are culturally and racially different from you? This course provides thought-provoking background and practical suggestions for teachers seeking the answer to this question. Participants explore their own assumptions about race, class, and culture; and learn strategies for creating classrooms that are culturally inviting to all.
July 1, 2021 to July 1, 2023

T&L 2900: VIR: Courageous Conversations about Race

T&L 2900: VIR: Courageous Conversations about Race
In this course, you will gain the knowledge and skills to understand and examine the impact of race on student achievement and the role that racism plays in institutionalized racial disparities. You will learn a practical and accessible protocol that supports participants in challenging their personal beliefs around race.
July 1, 2021 to July 1, 2023

T&L 2900: VIR: Differentiating Teaching and Instruction: What, How, Why

T&L 2900: VIR: Differentiating Teaching and Instruction: What, How, Why
In this course, you will gain the knowledge and skills to describe and implement the concept of differentiation as a response to the needs, interests, and abilities of learners by modifying curriculum, instruction, and classroom environment. You will explore how to reconstruct an objective so it is responsive to the needs, interests, and abilities of diverse learners.
July 1, 2021 to July 1, 2023

T&L 2900: VIR: Effective Coaching to Strengthen Instruction

T&L 2900: VIR: Effective Coaching to Strengthen Instruction
In this course, you will learn the fundamentals of coaching teachers in order to increase the quality of their instruction for improved student academic success.
July 1, 2021 to July 1, 2023

T&L 2900: VIR: Facilitating Learning for Speakers of Non-Standardized English

T&L 2900: VIR: Facilitating Learning for Speakers of Non-Standardized English
This course prepares K-12 educators with the knowledge, skills, and dispositions to support the academic language proficiency and achievement of Standardized English Learners (SELs).
July 1, 2021 to July 1, 2023

T&L 2900: VIR: Inclusive Education: Success for All Learners

T&L 2900: VIR: Inclusive Education: Success for All Learners
This course is designed to build the competencies of educators to successfully incorporate the belief systems, effective instructional skills, new models of staffing and service delivery and authentic collaboration into their practice.
July 1, 2021 to July 1, 2023

T&L 2900: VIR: Making Student Thinking Visible: Unlocking SEL

T&L 2900: VIR: Making Student Thinking Visible: Unlocking SEL
In this course, you will learn skills used to Make Students Thinking Visible (MSTV). You will hear from Jon Saphier, founder and president of Research for Better Teaching, Inc., and Lucy West, Founder of Metamorphosis TLC, on the concepts, embedded values, and operating principles of MSTV.
July 1, 2021 to July 1, 2023

T&L 2900: VIR: Pedagogical Strategies for English Learners

T&L 2900: VIR: Pedagogical Strategies for English Learners
In this course, you will gain the knowledge and skills to support the specific needs of English learners. You will learn to establish a language-rich classroom. You will explore the role of language in literacy development and academic achievement through deconstructing language demands and creating an Academic Language Bank.
July 1, 2021 to July 1, 2023

T&L 2900: VIR: Relationally Responsive Classroom Management

T&L 2900: VIR: Relationally Responsive Classroom Management
This course empowers educators to effectively teach an increasingly diverse student body by cultivating meaningful relationships with students.
July 1, 2021 to July 1, 2023

T&L 2900: VIR: Survival Strategies for New Teachers, Grades 6-8

T&L 2900: VIR: Survival Strategies for New Teachers, Grades 6-8
This course provides new teachers with strategies and tools that enable them to develop confidence and skills as they improve their classroom practice.
July 1, 2021 to July 1, 2023

T&L 2900: VIR: Survival Strategies for New Teachers, Grades 9-12

T&L 2900: VIR: Survival Strategies for New Teachers, Grades 9-12
This course provides new teachers with strategies and tools that enable them to develop confidence and skills as they improve their classroom practice.
July 1, 2021 to July 1, 2023

T&L 2900: VIR: Survival Strategies for New Teachers, Grades K-5

T&L 2900: VIR: Survival Strategies for New Teachers, Grades K-5
This course provides new teachers with strategies and tools that enable them to develop confidence and skills as they improve their classroom practice.
July 1, 2021 to July 1, 2023