Online Professional Develop Opportunities

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 Making Technology Connections is a facilitator-led foundation course to assist educators in successful technology integration, which includes research-based pedagogy and best practices to promote student engagement, academic growth, and achievement of higher order thinking skills. 

 

The course will help all participants establish an enhanced knowledge of ILS and National Core Standards, develop essential skills students need to address within a course, identify the reasoning skills that support the standards, with emphasis on reading and mathematics, and identify technology tools that support acquisition of these skills.  This course is now available to all educators. 


Please contact your local professional development provider and ask them to partner with IVS to provide this course to you and your colleagues.


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reading first

The Illinois Reading First Academy is a self-paced course designed to provide professional development to teachers in reading instruction.   These courses for K, 1st, 2nd, and 3rd grade teachers were created and reviewed by Subject Matter Experts including Cindy Carr from Two Rivers Professional Development Center and Kathy Barclay from Western Illinois University.


This course is scheduled to open in Fall 2010.  Contact your local professional development provider for details and an authorization code for this course.


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