This online course features Kelly Harmon, an experienced literacy teacher, instructional coach and national presenter. The course begins by providing methods to track your students' learning and gear your teaching to student learning targets. It then emphasizes the importance of prioritizing student acceleration over remediation and offers strategies to plan high impact learning opportunities for your students while scaffolding them to grade level targets. The course also highlights tech tools you can use to increase student acceleration and engagement. The rest of the course focuses on a variety of strategies you can implement in your classroom to accelerate student learning. These strategies are divided into three categories – vocabulary acquisition and word recognition, reading fluency and comprehension, and writing achievement. Print and digital resources are also provided, which you can use with your students for years to come.
You will learn how to:
- Establish and track student learning targets
- Utilize tech tools to accelerate your students' learning and increase their engagement
- Prioritize the acceleration of your students' learning over remediating their learning
- Scaffold students to grade level targets and teach with those targets in mind
- Organize and plan high impact learning opportunities for your students
- Implement strategies to accelerate your students' vocabulary acquisition and word recognition
- Accelerate your students' writing achievement using engaging strategies
- Adopt strategies that accelerate your students' reading fluency and comprehension
Watch an excerpt from this course:
"I feel this course will help me to accelerate students' progress quite a bit with all I have learned from Kelly. Thank you!"
- D. Forcier
"Thank you for the wealth of inspiring and most useful information this course provides. I am grateful for the beneficial insights and of course the downloadable book. What a gift!"
- K. Bozik
"I found many new resources in this course that I'm excited to share with my students and colleagues when school starts."
- F. Bussell
"I'm excited to put many of the strategies I learned during this course to use in my classroom. They seem simple to implement but the impact of them will be great."
- S. Westmoland
