SIM Content Enhancement for Preservice Educators

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PURPOSE
This class, which is designed for college/university faculty who are engaged in teacher preparation, will enable participants to implement a variety of empirically validated teaching routines from the SIM Content Enhancement (CE) Series. Content will emphasize inclusive course planning and the implementation of a variety of explicit teaching routines designed to ensure content-area mastery of critical ideas and concepts by all students. Participants will explore several routines in depth so that CE Routines can be infused into existing courses or new courses can be constructed. Information related to meeting additional CE inservice SIM Professional Developer certification requirements will be provided. Teams of individuals from the same institution are encouraged to enroll.

CONTENT
The class will focus on three big ideas:
• Enhancing content learning through teaching routines. Enhance content in learner-friendly ways and improve students’ ability to organize, understand, and remember critical information.
• Using routines for planning and leading learning in the academically diverse classroom. Plan courses, units, and lessons that respond to academic diversity and address academic standards and benchmarks.
• Creating a successful learning community in the classroom. Promote learning and acquire methods for understanding diversity, getting to know students, and using information about students to improve teaching.
Participants will receive guidebooks (containing teaching procedures), activities, assignments, and electronic resources.

PARTICIPANTS
• Any college or university faculty member engaged in secondary education teacher preparation.
• Teams from the same institution representing a variety of secondary content areas and special education.

METHODS
This four-day hands-on class will allow participants to explore methods for teaching academically diverse groups of students. Participants will be challenged to think deeply about what students need to know. Participants will learn how to select critical content, identify underlying relationships, and construct instructional devices that will help all students master the essential content of a course. Participants also will learn how to present content in ways that are memorable and that actively involve students. Each day, participants will explore, practice, and apply methods to their own content areas and will develop plans to infuse these methods into their courses.

EXPECTATIONS
Each participant will be expected to integrate Content Enhancement Routines into their courses and to report progress and effect to the Center. Those who successfully complete the class will be able to order Content Enhancement materials to use in their teacher education efforts and will have the opportunity to become certified inservice SIM Professional Developers.

MATERIALS
Participants will receive the following SIM Content Enhancement guidebooks, along with instruction, practice in their use, and access to supporting technology.  For more information about these materials and the research studies supporting them, please visit Edge Enterprises.

PLANNING AND LEADING LEARNING
Course Organizer
Unit Organizer

TEACHING CONCEPTS
Concept Mastery Routine

INCREASING PERFORMANCE
Question Exploration Routine

EXPLORING TEXT, TOPICS, AND DETAILS
Framing Routine

This class will foster collaboration and inclusion, so teams of secondary general education and special education faculty are especially invited to attend.

Event Presenter(s):

Dr. Michael Faggella-Luby, Assistant Professor, University of Connecticut, and Dr. Belinda Mitchell, Assistant Professor, Shepherd University