Instructional+Best+Practices

**Instructional Best Practices Training **

__**Course Descriptors:**__


 * Collaborative Planning and Teaching (CPT) -** Explore collaborative teaching structures and processes that can //maximize achievement for students with and without disabilities//. School teams __MUST__ be composed of general education teachers, special education teachers, support personnel, __AND__ //a school administrator.//

· Planning Routines: Survey Routine, Concept Mastery Routine, Course Organizer, Unit Organizer, Lesson Organizer · Teaching Routines: Clarifying Routine, Concept Anchoring, Concept Comparison Routine, Concept Mastery Routine, Framing Routine, Order Routine, Quality Assignment Routine, Question Exploration Routine, Recall Enhancement, Survey Routine, Vocabulary LINCing Routine For more information go to [] and []
 * Content Enhancement (SIM) -** Researched-based routines designed to help teachers enhance the ways they present content to improve student's ability to organize, understand, and remember critical information.


 * Dealing with Differences -** Learn how to identify individual student needs, make accommodations/modifications to meet the diverse learning needs of students with disabilities as well as at-risk students that raise their level of success with general education curriculum.


 * Differentiated Instruction -** Discuss vocabulary and key principles and practices of differentiating content, process, and products in academically diverse classrooms. Explore key factors of differentiated classrooms and participate in techniques that support differentiation.


 * Learning Strategies (SIM) -** Research-based strategies that enable students to learn and complete tasks independently

· Fundamentals in Sentence Writing · Proficiency in Sentence Writing · Paragraph Writing · Error Monitoring · Theme Writing · Test Taking · Essay Test Taking · Assignment Completion · InSPECT
 * **__Writing Strategies__**

· Word Mapping · Word Identification · Visual Imagery · Self Questioning · Fundamentals of Paraphrasing and Summarizing · Paraphrasing · Inference
 * **__Reading Strategies__**

· FIRST Letter Mnemonic · Paired Associates · LINCS Vocabulary
 * __**Memory Strategies**__

· LEARN · THINK · BUILD · SCORE · Teamwork · Community Building · Focusing Together · Talking Together · Taking Notes Together · Following Instructions Together · Organizing Together
 * __**Social Skills Strategies**__

· Self Advocacy · Possible Selves ---For more information go to [] and []
 * __**Motivation and Self-Determination Strategies**__


 * Meaningful Participation** – Participants will become more aware of ways to facilitate inclusion which ensure meaningful participation in the instructional program for students with significant cognitive disabilities.

**True Colors**- Learn about your personality type and how to better relate to your peers in an interactive, practical and fun research based method.