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51. Professional Development | Grades   K – 12  |  Online Professional Development  |  Web Seminar
    Text Complexity and Close Reading
    To really teach a text well, and to develop students' habits for tackling texts, teachers have to understand what factors contribute to text complexity. We will discuss each of these factors and determine ways that teachers can develop close reading lessons to build students' skills.
52. Professional Development | Grades   K – 12  |  Online Professional Development  |  Web Seminar
    The ELA Common Core State Standards-And You
    IRA's first CCSS webinar gives you an opportunity to discuss the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) with one of the leaders in the field, Tim Shanahan, who participated on the team that drafted the CCSS and has been an outspoken voice as states begin implementing CCSS in schools.
53. Professional Development | Grades   6 – 12  |  Online Professional Development  |  Web Seminar
    The Roundtable: An Assessment to Foster Critical Thinkers and Reflective Learners
    This Web seminar will focus on an authentic form of assessment in the English language arts curriculum-the High School and Middle School Roundtable.
54. Professional Development | Grades   6 – 12  |  Online Professional Development  |  Web Seminar
    The Why and How of Multiple Texts in Middle and High School Classrooms
    This Web seminar will explore the "why" and "how" of teaching multiple texts across all content areas in middle and high school.
55. Professional Development | Grades   6 – 12  |  Online Professional Development  |  Web Seminar
    To Kill a Mockingbird - Teaching The Film: Helping Students Appreciate the Language of the Moving
    Teaching film techniques (lighting, symbolism, sound, camera angles) is part of the new Common Core ELA Standards. Join film and media educator Frank W. Baker, an NCTE consultant, for this new look at engaging students in film education
56. Professional Development | Grades   5 – 12  |  Online Professional Development  |  Web Seminar
    Tracking Argumentation across the Disciplines
    This Web seminar will examine the nature of argumentation across academic disciplines (especially social studies) and suggest questioning practices that scaffold analyzing argumentation in complex informational texts.
57. Professional Development | Grades   6 – 12  |  Online Professional Development  |  Web Seminar
    Using Formative Reading Assessment to Enhance Content Area Learning
    Drawing on the work in his 2012 NCTE book Beyond Standardized Truth: Improving Teaching and Learning through Inquiry-Based Reading Assessment, Scott Filkins shares practical tools to gather information about students as readers and instructional responses that promote increased understanding of subject matter.
58. Professional Development | Grades   K – 12  |  Online Professional Development  |  Web Seminar
    Using Popular Culture & The Media to Teach 21st Century Media Literacy Skills
    The media remains a dominant force in the lives of today's students, yet the 21st century classroom still gives media a backseat to print. NCTE consultant Frank W. Baker examines standards that include media and offers recommendations for engaging students with popular culture and the media.
59. Professional Development | Grades   K – 12  |  Online Professional Development  |  Web Seminar
    Webinar on Common Core Standards
    This webinar focuses on the Common Core Standards.
60. Professional Development | Grades   K – 12  |  Online Professional Development  |  Web Seminar
    Webinar on the President's Budget
    This webinar addresses the update on the President's budget (to be released the week of February 14th) and an update on the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (the current NCLB).

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