CILC On Demand Spotlight Sessions: Online Professional Development Programs: Instructional Strategies

Learners with chronic health conditions have specific needs. Do you need help identifying, understanding and meeting those needs for the chronically ill learners in your classrooms? Join David Gordon of the Living Through Learning Foundation as he discusses common educational challenges that confront learners, educators, and administrators when learners have chronic health conditions.

Are you looking for strategies to improve your students' reading comprehension in your content area? Do you need some fresh ideas to engage students with the text?

Join Christine Rush, classroom teacher, former department of education consultant and reading advocate as she shares dynamic strategies so your students can improve their reading comprehension skills and construct meaning from the text--the very text your students use in your classroom every day! Christine will share strategies from the CSR (Collaborative Strategic Reading) model that you can use in your classroom to better engage your students.

Need to add some spice to your vocabulary development? Looking for some new vocabulary strategies? Join Dr. Kimberly Tyson as she explores research-based strategies that promote vocabulary . . .both IN and OUT of the classroom!

Are you looking to offer your Special Needs Students alternative forms of learning? Are you looking to offer Gifted Students additional, challenging learning opportunities? Are you seeking Enrichment Opportunities to add to your curriculum? Or, are you merely trying to figure out where to begin? Michelle will give an overview that helps to sort out those confusions by explaining a three-prong approach to differentiation and how it can support each of those areas. In this introductory session, she will define differentiation and explore the importance of responding to learners based upon their readiness, interest level, and learning styles.

Lucienne Sharpe, of Touch the Sky, Ltd shares her passion, interactive learning and therapy for students of all special needs, gifts and talents. Lucienne is a well-trained and experienced international advocate of innovative techniques that enhance student communication through the application and use of the performing arts. Lucienne has been working with students with learning differences for 40 years.

• Foster collaboration and communication in the classroom
• Build engaging collaborative learning environments
• Apply a variety of free collaborative tools