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Balancing Informational & Literary Texts
(Grades K-5)

In this workshop participants will examine recommendations intended to help educators organize instruction and study to improve student learning, specifically, on how teachers can promote critical thinking skills by posing higher-order questions and encouraging student explanations.


About This Course

This workshop is part of a new series of content collections - Pepper Online Workshops (POW) – focusing on the hottest topics that educators are dealing with across the country.  These have been developed in partnership  with WestEd using some of the resources from their Doing What Works project. These workshops feature amazing videos, interactive planning tools, and other research-based materials.

The goal of teaching is helping students learn and acquire knowledge and skills to prepare them for the future. Part of this goal includes helping students retain information they have been taught over time in order to apply it to future situations. It is necessary to provide teachers with specific strategies for organizing both instruction and students’ studying of material to facilitate learning and remembering information, and to enable students to use what they have learned in new situations. The Institute of Education Sciences (IES) publishes practice guides in education “to bring the best available evidence and expertise to bear on the types of systemic challenges that cannot currently be addressed by single interventions or programs.” The recommendations in this course are based on the IES Practice Guide: Organizing Instruction and Study to Improve Student Learning.

There are many different recommendations in the IES Practice Guide: Organizing Instruction and Study to Improve Student Learning. The workshop will focus on how teachers can promote critical thinking skills by posing higher-order questions and encouraging student explanations.




WAYS TO TAKE THIS COURSE

Simply Audit this Course

Can't commit to all of the lectures, assignments, and tests? Audit this course and have complete access to all of the course material, tests, people, portfolios, and the online discussion forum. You decide what and how much you want to do.

Try for a Certificate

Looking to test your mettle? Participate in all of the course's activities (we use the honor code around here) and if your work meets the 85% requirements, you'll receive a personalized certificate to showcase your achievement. You can also apply for course credit (if desired).


Course Staff

WestEd


WestEd, a nationally recognized nonpartisan, nonprofit research, development, and service agency working with education and other communities throughout the United States and abroad. WestEd aims to improve education and other important outcomes for children, youth and adults. WestEd provides a wide range of resources for K-12 educators to use in their classrooms.

Lori Larsen


Lori Larsen has more than 20 years experience in the education environment. Her experience includes classroom teaching, grant implementation, district level administration, and professional development facilitation. Lori has provided professional development for teachers throughout the United States and Canada. She has a Bachelor's of Science degree in K-8 Education from Marshall University and a Master’s of Science degree in Elementary Education from Furman University. She has made presentations at local, state, and national conferences highlighting the use of technology as an instructional tool and integrating technology into the curriculum. Lori has a passion for working with teachers and providing support to help teachers engage students and enhance classroom instruction.
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Sarah Feldman, Seewan Eng
Course Code: POW328
Course Release: May 08, 2017
Estimated Effort: 1.0 Hours

Suggested Prerequisites:
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