ER&D Courses for Winter/Spring 2025

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Checks and Registration Form must be in the Union Hall TWO WEEKS prior to the start of the class. Please do not jeopardize the class by registering too late. All classes are held at the Union Hall.

Thinking Math K-2  

Tuesdays & Thursdays April 1, 2025 – May 1, 2025.

Instructor: Denise Dunlop

In this course, you’ll learn about counting, numeration, place value, and number sense. Additional topics included are addition, subtraction, patterns and relationships in number, measurement, and geometry. Just like all Thinking Math courses, Thinking Math K-2 focuses on the situational context of word problems. The course stresses the understanding and recording of student thinking, balancing conceptual and procedure learning, and mathematical justification.  This course has no prerequisites. Thinking Math courses can be taken in any order and the content can be transferred to other grades and content areas.

English Language Arts with Common Core State Standards

Saturdays - April 5th, 12th, 19th & 26th.

Instructor(s): Maria Gentoleo, Kathie Waigand

This course is designed for K-12 mainstream or general education teachers and paraprofessionals of English language learners who have little to no information or preparation to work with this rapidly growing population of students. There are four sections (modules) that will include research-based information on second-language acquisition; information about the cultural, academic, and linguistic diversity of ELLs, and a range of strategies and skills to differentiate instruction for ELLs while maintaining academic rigor. 

Reading Comprehension Instruction

Saturdays - February 1st, 8th, 15th & 22nd.

Instructor: Melinda Garcia

This course focuses on how children learn to read and the best ways to teach reading from kindergarten to the end of the primary grades.

ELITE

Sundays - February 2nd, 9th, 16th & 23rd.

Instructor(s): Patricia Ortega

Project ELITE (Expanding Literacy Instruction by Tutoring ELLs) – This course focuses on literacy training for educators providing individualized instruction to English language learners who need additional literacy supports. The focus is on reading comprehension and oral language development to help ELLs participate on equal terms in the classroom as they confront the dual challenge of mastering grade level content while continuing to learn English. ELITE (Expanding Literacy Instruction by Tutoring ELLs) is based on the highly effective literacy intervention research by Diane August and reported by the U.S. Department of Education’s Institute for Educational Sciences and the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.

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