HIGH SCHOOL

Engaging With Literature: A Workshop for Teachers, Grades 3-5 - (Video Workshop)
Course Overview
This is a video workshop for grades 3-5 language arts teachers, consisting of nine video programs, a print guide, and this Web site. Use these components for professional development in two-hour weekly group sessions, or on your own.

Making Meaning in Literature:  A workshop for Teachers, Grades 6-8 - (Video Workshop)
Course Overview
Combining the best of literature with the best of teaching to create communities of learners where literature is the path to growth.

Inside Writing Communities, Grades 3-5 - (Video Workshop)
Course Overview
This workshop explores the essential characteristics of a successful writing community and shows examples of teachers who build community in their classrooms through a variety of ways.

In Search of the Novel - (Video Workshop)
Course Overview
A series of eight free professional development workshops designed for middle and high school teachers illustrating innovative tools and strategies employed in the study of the novel.

Monitoring Comprehension - (Video Workshop)
Course Overview
You will be required to take a test at the end of the workshop in order to receive your certificate.  The entire program will take you about 3 hours to complete. 

The Expanding Canon:  Teaching Multicultural Literature in High School - (Video Workshop)
Course Overview
Explores Native American, African American, Asian American and Latino works through four pedagogical approaches.

Reading in the Content Areas - It's Just Different! - (Video Workshop)
Course Overview
You will be required to take a test at the end of the workshop in order to receive your certificate.  The entire program will take you about 3 hours to complete. 

Looking at Vocabulary - (Video Workshop)
Course Overview
You will be required to take a test at the end of the workshop in order to receive your certificate.  The entire program will take you about 3 hours to complete. 

Examining Student Work:  Protocol for Improving Reading Instruction - (Video Workshop)
Course Overview
You will be required to take a test at the end of the workshop in order to receive your certificate.  The entire program will take you about 2 hours to complete.

Emblematic Illustrations - (Self-paced)
Course Overview- Strive to understand some of the ways that African Americans were portrayed in popular culture, some of the ways that they portrayed themselves, and the ways these portrayals reflect larger historical developments at the turn of the century by analyzing objects in American Memory.   Appropriate for middle school and high school educators.

Squeezing Documents - (Self-paced)
Course Overview-Tour the collections and different media formats as you learn strategies and tips for successful searching.Use an inquiry approach to analyze and critically understand document based primary sources.    The workshop serves as a model and is intended to be replicated in classrooms.

The Great Depression - (Self-paced)
Course Overview- Complete and discuss inquiry-based lessons related to the Depression Era novel, The Grapes of Wrath, using three different American Memory collections.

Building Fluency:  Do It Well & Do It Right - (Video Workshop)
Course Overview
You will be required to take a test at the end of the workshop in order to receive your certificate.  The entire program will take you about 2 hours to complete. 

Feedback: A Powerful tool for Raising Student Acheivement in Language Arts - (Video Workshop)
Course Overview
You will be required to take a test at the end of the workshop in order to receive your certificate.  The entire program will take you about 1 hour to complete. 

Phonics:  The Building Blocks of Early Reading - (Video Workshop)
Course Overview
You will be required to take a test at the end of the workshop in order to receive your certificate.  The entire program will take you about 2 hours to complete. 

Beginning to Write - (Video Workshop)
Course Overview
You will be required to take a test at the end of the workshop in order to receive your certificate.  The entire program will take you about 2 hours to complete. 

Teaching Reading K-2 Workshop - (Video Workshop)
Course Overview
Introduces innovative research-based principles, teaching practices, and classroom activities designed to stimulate your teaching.

Teaching Reading 3-5 Workshop - (Video Workshop)
Course Overview
Designed to give teachers the strategies they need to help all students become better readers and writers in the intermediate grades.

Phonemic Awareness - (Video Workshop)
Course Overview
You will be required to take a test at the end of the workshop in order to receive your certificate.  The entire program will take you about 2 hours to complete. 

Writing in Content Areas:  Understanding Content - (Video Workshop)
Course Overview
You will be required to take a test at the end of the workshop in order to receive your certificate.  The entire program will take you about 2 hours to complete. 

Write in the Middle:  A Workshop for Middle School Teachers - (Video Workshop)
Course Overview
Helping Middle School Students become better writers.

Writing at High Levels in the Intermediate Grades - (Video Workshop)
Course Overview
You will be required to take a test at the end of the workshop in order to receive your certificate.  The entire program will take you about 2 hours to complete.

Artifacts & Fiction - (Self-paced Video Workshop)
Course Overview-This video workshop for high school American literature teachers introduces techniques for reading cultural, political, and religious artifacts and connecting them to the literature they teach.

Conversations in Literature - (Self-paced Video Workshop)
Course Overview-Teachers, academics, and authors gather as a “community of readers,” immersing themselves in classic and contemporary literature from Hamlet to works by Langston Hughes, James Dickey, and Alice Walker. These participants, led by Dr. Judith Langer, model the habits of effective readers in an approach known as “envisionment building.”

Developing Writers (for High School Teachers) - (Self-paced Video Workshop)
Course Overview-Practical and philosophical advice for teaching writing, while examining issues every teacher faces—such as high-stakes assessments and dealing with differently abled students.

Teaching Multicultural Literature:  A Workshop for the Middle Grades - (Video Workshop)
Course Overview
In eight one-hour videos, teachers from across the country model approaches that make multicultural literature meaningful for students in grades five to eight.