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Module 1056

Reading and No Child Left Behind: Raising Scores and Student Achievement

Apply this towards your professional development requirements

Tuition: $225 complete

Contact us for our quantity discount policy at questions@americancenterforeducators.org

What You'll Learn

All students must learn how to read to succeed. The problem: studies suggest 40 percent of our students across the nation cannot read at a basic level, the impetus No Child Left Behind (NCLB) was enacted. The good news: you've embraced the fact that you're the person who can teach children to improve their reading skills. And we're going to help you. This module offers straightforward guidance and engaging activities you can use immediately to improve students' reading proficiency. You'll learn:


  • How to identify and overcome obstacles that prevent reading fluency
  • 18 research-based strategies to improve the reading skills of all students
  • A 4-step plan to improve students' test-taking ability and raise scores
  • The 4 pillars of NCLB and how they impact you and your students
  • How to address the special needs of migratory, neglected & delinquent children

Highlights

Proven Reading Instruction for All Learners

  • Utilize the 5 essential components of effective reading instruction
  • Employ scientifically-tested strategies that increase literacy
  • Analyzing assessments to improve instruction and future results
  • The key to helping all students become successful readers

Raise Reading Scores Using These Four Test-Taking Best Practices

  • Test prep: 5 subtle ways to prepare your students' mind for test day
  • Reducing anxiety: Help your students relax with these 5 tips
  • During the test: 7 test-taking best practices to go over with your students
  • Before they finish: 4 things your students should do before handing in their test

No Child Left Behind for Reading Improvement Crash Course

  • The relationship between NCLB and reading instruction
  • Reading First: What educators need to know
  • Discover the availability of NCLB funding and it's restrictions
  • What you should know about No Educator Left Behind
  • Resources that support teachers and administrators through NCLB

The Virtual Teachers Lounge™

Check in with your peers and get answers to your questions – any time, 24/7. Taking this course will give you exclusive access to the thoughts, insights and experience of other educators and K-12 experts discussing your topics and giving you solutions and ideas for whatever is on your mind. In the Teachers' lounge, you can:

  • Learn new, working strategies and solutions from other educators – live!
  • Get answers to your toughest questions from top K-12 experts
  • Discuss course topics with your peers and benefit from their experiences
  • Share your success stories and best practices to benefit other teachers and administrators
  • Get new perspectives, fresh ideas and guidance – whenever you need it.
  • You can log whenever is most convenient for you, 24/7

All you have to do is sign up for this course, and you're in!

Connect with, hear from and get help from you peers.


Materials & Assessment

Lectures Your lectures, delivered by one of the nation's leading, recognized experts on this topic, are presented in multiple parts to make listening and tracking your progress easier. You can listen to each as often as you like by playing it on your computer, downloading it to your iPod or other MP3 player, even burning it to CD. Listen wherever it is most convenient for you: at home, in your car; at the park; and whenever you like: before or after work, at night or on weekends. Many educators can complete a module in only a week.
Text Resources Virtual text resources are downloadable and expand on the material covered in your lectures. They may include articles, web links to related materials and web sites, definitions of important terms and concepts, and a bibliography. All materials can be viewed on your computer or downloaded and printed.
Assessment To receive your Certificate of Completion or Certificate of Attendance and earn Professional Development/Continuing Education units/credits/hours, you will need to complete all assessments and submit all final projects.
Virtual Teachers Lounge To gain Professional Development credits or hours for any of these three modules, you must participate in the Virtual teachers Lounge discussion for that module. If you are not seeking credits or hours, participation in the Lounge is not mandatory, but you are still welcome to connect with and share your thoughts, questions, insights and experience with your peers at any time.
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Reading and No Child Left Behind: Raising Scores and Student Achievement

Tuition: $225
Contact us for our quantity discount policy at questions@americancenterforeducators.org