Professional Development
Reading Apprenticeship is designed to increase teacher effectiveness and improve students' reading and writing skills in content area classes. How do we accomplish this? By offering intensive, hands-on professional development services to help teachers and instructional leaders implement the Reading Apprenticeship approach.
| Service | Audience | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|
| School Districts | Comprehensive District Services | Districts | Long-term; 1 to 3 years |
| Middle and High Schools |
Leadership Institutes (Training of Trainers) |
Teams of teacher leaders, administrators and other literacy leaders | 8 days (5 + 3) |
| Teacher Institutes | Cross-disciplinary groups of middle and high school teachers | 2 to 8 days | |
| Reading Apprenticeship Academic Literacy Course Institute | Teachers of the 9th grade Reading Apprenticeship Academic Literacy Course | 5 days | |
| Community Colleges |
Leadership Community of Practice | Community college instructors (please note: there is a pre-requisite to enroll in this training) | 4 day summer training plus 2 day follow-up winter conference |
| Online course | Community college instructors | 30 hours over 6 weeks | |
| Faculty Seminars | Community college instructors | 2 to 7 days |