July Workshop a success!

Dr. Cherie McCollough conducted a CCRI workshop entitled "How People Learn: Teaching for Understanding and Retention of Knowledge," sponsored by Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi and the Career and College Readiness Faculty Collaborative Initiative for Science. Fourteen participants came to the Omni Marina Hotel in Corpus Christi, TX, July 9, 2010 to work on using the Understanding by Design (UbD) framework to existing lesson plans. College and Career Readiness Standards were emphasized in teaching what students need to prepare themselves and others for the future. All participants received copies of Understanding by Design (2005) by Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe and How Students Learn: Science in the Classroom (2005) edited by M. Suzanne Donovan and John D. Bransford.

 After working individually and together throughout the day learning the process of the UbD framework and beginning a classroom action research plan, participants shared with the group the plans hey had enhanced and how they intended to actively research the effectiveness of the lesson plan restructuring in their fal semester classes.

Ron Rohac slide

Click on the title to view the side "Science and ELLs:Questions from the Field," an information slide used in the February Symposium in San Antonio.

Symposium II Poster Session Write-ups and Abstracts

The following pictures below link to the write-ups and abstracts to what 9 different universities are doing to promote College and Career Readiness Standards. Please look to gain ideas for your college or university.

  Prairie View A&M                    Sam Houston State

Texas A&M College Station       Texas A&M-Corpus Christi

Texas State-San Marcos                          Texas Women's University

Mary Hardin-Baylor             Univ. North Texas

UT at Tyler

CollegeEd Creating a College-Going Culture Guide

Click on the link below to bring up the PDF file.

www.collegeboard.com/.../collegeed/collegeEd-create-college-going-culture.pdf

Preparing High School Students for College Science Classes by Ann Haley MacKenzie, editor of The American Biology Teacher. This came out in The American Biology Teacher, volume 71, issue 1, pages 6-7, December 2009.

Instructional Tools for Paraphrasing

October 30, 2009

Hilton Garden Inn Austin,TX

The English/Language Arts Faculty Collaborative hosted a seminar titled Instructional Tools for Paraphrasing.  This paraphrasing strategy is designed to help students focus on the most important information in a passage.   The tools presented will include:  *Fundamentals of Paraphrasing, *The Paraphrasing Strategy and *The Frame Routine.
*Copyright 2009 by the University of Kansas

Presenter:  Candace Bixler, Strategic Instruction Model (SIM) Professional Developer

An Introduction to the New ELAR Curriculum Standards

August 14, 2009

Source: English/Language Arts Faculty Collaborative

An Introduction to the new ELAR curriculum standards was held on August 13 & 14 at the Hyatt Regency Lost Pines Resort in Bastrop, Texas. This professional development introduced secondary teacher educators to the new English/Language Arts curriculum standards that Texas teachers will be expected to implement beginning with the 2009-2010 school year. English/Language Arts TEKS, the College and Career Readiness Skills (CCRS), and the English Language Proficiency Standards were covered.

The Sentence Writing Strategy

June 19, 2009

Source: English/Language Arts Faculty Collaborative

A workshop introducing faculty to The Sentence Writing Strategy was held on June 19, 2009 at the Four Seasons Hotel in Austin. The Sentence Writing Strategy is a research-validated instructional strategy that is effective in developing writing proficiency and college readiness skills. Developed by the University of Kansas Center for Research on Learning, this strategy has been used successfully with students of varying levels of writing proficiency, including English Language Learners. This workshop, the first in a series on teaching writing skills, provided tools for teacher educators and English faculty to teach the strategy in their courses.

Presented by: Candace Bixler, Strategic Instruction Model (SIM) Professional Developer