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Teachscape Online Professional Learning Resources are designed to help busy professionals—teachers and instructional leaders—deepen their understanding of academic content and of effective, research-based strategies. This will enable educators to apply the content to improve both the processes and outcomes of teaching and learning.

The Teachscape Online Professional Learning Resources provide on-demand access to content modules reflecting research-based best practices, organized in six key areas of professional development:

Each series is comprised of a number of study resources that includes:

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Teachscape Online Studies: The Mathematics Series

The following Summary Chart provides an overview of the 12 Professional Learning Resources in the Mathematics Series, the recommended grade levels and the online professional learning modules each includes. Developed in partnership with the Concord Consortium, each of the resources focuses on essential mathematics content for the indicated grades, as defined by the NCTM Standards and Focal Points.

The Online Professional Learning in Mathematics Series
Summary Chart

Professional Learning Resources Grades Online Modules Included
The Foundations of Effective Mathematics Teaching K–5/6
  • Foundations of Effective Mathematics Teaching
  • Effective Questioning in the Mathematics Classroom
  • Formative Assessment in the Mathematics Classroom
Big Ideas in Elementary Math:
Focus on Problem Solving
3–5/6
  • Problem Solving in Mathematics
  • Broken Calculator
Big Ideas in Elementary Math:
Focus on Number and Operations
3–4
  • Division with Remainders
  • The Magnitude of Fractions
Studies in Algebra:
Algebra in the Elementary Grades
4–6
  • Pan Balance Equations
  • Patterns and Functions
Big Ideas in Elementary Math:
Focus on Geometry
3–5
  • 2D and 3D Figures
  • Calculating the Area of a Triangle
Big Ideas in Elementary Math:
Focus on Probability and Statistics
4–6
  • Measures of Center
  • Using Data to Make Predictions
Studies in Middle School Math:
Proportional Reasoning
5–8
  • Proportional Reasoning in the Middle Grades
Studies in Secondary Math:
Data Analysis
8–HS
  • Data Analysis
Studies in Algebra:
Proportional Reasoning
8–HS
  • Proportional Reasoning
Studies in Algebra:
Linear Functions
8–HS
  • Linear Functions
  • Transformations of Linear Functions
Studies in Algebra:
Linear Equations
8–HS
  • Linear Equations
  • Systems of Linear Equations
Studies in Algebra:
Quadratic Equations
8–HS
  • Quadratic Functions
  • Quadratic Equations
  • Transformations of Quadratic Functions

I. Mathematics for the Elementary Grades

The Foundations of Effective Mathematics Teaching focuses on four essential aspects of effective teaching: (1) deepening understanding of mathematics content for teaching, (2) understanding student thinking, (3) effective formative assessment strategies, and (4) developing an environment that fosters problem solving.Online modules include:

The Big Ideas in Elementary Mathematics: Focus on Problem Solving uses work with a "broken" calculator to identify creative problem solving strategies and use these to support students as they build meaning of mathematics, gain number sense and compute with fluency. The online modules include:

The Big Ideas in Elementary Mathematics: Focus on Number and Operations explores the Big Ideas of two core concepts in elementary math—division and with remainders and the magnitude of fractions—and the research-based strategies to promote student understanding of each. The online modules include:

Studies on Algebra: Algebra in the Elementary Grades provides insights into understanding and teaching the foundational concepts of algebra—patterns, equivalence, order of operations, variables and use of algebraic symbols and representations. The online modules include:

The Big Ideas in Elementary Mathematics: Focus on Geometry promotes geometric thought through application of the Van Hiele Framework, strategic questioning, inductive and deductive reasoningand by building understanding of the ways in which both concepts and procedures deepen thinking.Online modules include:

The Big Ideas in Elementary Mathematics:Focus on Probability and Statistics focuses on helping students use measures of center to describe data sets and to order and organize the data to make predictions that sometimes defy the notion of "fairness." Online modules include:

II. Mathematics for the Secondary Grades

Studies in Middle School Math: Proportional Reasoning explores how a teacher uses an engaging activity to help students understand proportional reasoning and apply it to concepts in geometry, measurement, operations and algebra. The online module included is:

Studies in Secondary Math: Data Analysis promotes the use of measures of center to interpret relationships within and among data sets by exploring and interpreting patterns. The online module included is:

Studies in Algebra: Proportional Reasoning explores the relationship between proportional reasoning and algebraic thinking and offers strategies to develop proportional reasoning through understanding student thinking about "real world" problems. The online module included is:

Studies in Algebra: Linear Functions grounds the study of algebra in linear functions within the context of "real world" applications to promote the concepts of rate of change, multipleStresses representations, and the graphic and symbolic form of functions as objects for operations.Online modules include:

Studies in Algebra: Linear Equations stresses the relationship between equations and functions by promoting a view of equations as functions to which values have been assigned and by offering multiple ways to represent and solve equations and systems of equations.Online modules include:

Studies in Algebra: Quadratic Equations explores quadratic functions, equations and transformations through concrete situations and provides analysis of multiple ways to explore their solutions by viewing algebra as objects and processes. Online modules include:

Teachscape Online Studies: The New Teacher Support Series

The following Summary Chart provides an overview of the six Online Studies Resources in the New Teacher Support Series, the targeted grade bands and the online professional learning modules each resource includes. The New Teacher Support Series is offered as a two-year course of study to ensure teachers develop the featured pedagogical content knowledge in a sequenced way that reflects the needs of teachers in their first two years of professional service.

The Online Professional Learning in New Teacher Support Series
Summary Chart

Year One: Build the Foundation
Professional Learning Resource Online Content
Classroom Management
  • Beginning of the Year Classroom Management
  • or
  • Secondary Classroom Management
Essential Teaching Strategies
  • Foundations of Effective Teaching
Decision–Making for Student Achievement
  • Instructional Decision Making
Year Two: Strengthen and Expand Instructional Skills
Deepening Understanding of Student Learning Needs
  • Understanding Student Needs
Effective Instructional Planning
  • Design for LEARNing
Teaching with High Yield Strategies:
The Essential Foundation
  • High Yield Overview
  • Setting Objectives and Providing Feedback

I. Online Study Resources for New Teachers - Suggested for Year One

Classroom Management helps teachers organize and manage their classrooms from the first day of the school year, establish effective rules, routines and procedures, monitor student behaviors and ensure that the classroom environment is set up to promote teaching and learning. This resource is built around:

OR

Essential Teaching Strategies promotes the use of classroom practices that have been proven to make a difference in what students learn and how well they learn it. The core teaching behaviors illustrated are designed to:(1) help teachers focus on those instructional practices that maximize student learning; and (2) apply student management strategies that build student participation and maintain student focus. The online module included is:

Decision-Making for Student Achievement focuses on helping teachers collect, analyze and interpret multiple forms of data and use these to develop class profiles that illustrate instructional groupings that reflect ranges of student learning strengths and needs. The online module included is:

II. Online Study Resources for New Teachers - Suggested for Years Two and Three

Deepening Understanding of Student Learning Needs helps teachers dig more deeply into student work, data and ongoing formative assessments to assess and understand the learning strengths and needs of the students and use this information to differentiate lessons for the range of instructional groupings in their class. The included online module is:

Effective Instructional Planning builds on prior work with developing well-managed classrooms and applying effective teaching practices by promoting research-based approaches to effective, outcomes-based instructional planning. The included module is:

Teaching with High Yield Strategies: The Essential Foundation promotes the application of the nine categories of research-based strategies identified by Robert Marzano and his colleagues as effective ways to strengthen teaching practice and improve student achievement. The included modules are:

Teachscape Online Studies: The English Language Learners Series

The following Summary Chart provides an overview of the five Online Studies Resources that focus on working with English Language Learners.Developed in partnership with Stanford University, this series focuses on strategies to develop K-12 English language skills, SDAIE approaches and independent study resources specifically designed for leaders.

The Online Professional Learning in the English Language Learners Series
Summary Chart

English Learners Resources Grades Online Content
Developing English Language Skills Elementary
Secondary
  • English Language Learners: Listening and Speaking
  • English Language Learners: Reading and Writing
English Language Skills for
Middle School Students
Secondary
  • English Language Development at Middle School
English Language Skills for
High School Students
Secondary
  • English Language Development at High School
Using SDAIE to Promote
English Language Development
Elementary
Secondary
  • Using SDAIE for English Learners
  • Teaching High School Math Using SDAIE Methodology
  • Teaching High School Science Using SDAIE Methodology
Promoting English Language Learning:
The Leadership Perspective
Elementary
Secondary
  • ELLs and the Law
  • SLA Theory
  • Characteristics of Immigrant ELLs
  • Teaching Strategies for Content Instruction
  • Teaching Strategies for English Language Development
  • ELLs and Accountability
  • ELLs and Assessment

English Language Learners—Online Study Resources

Developing English Language Skills focuses on effective ways to promote the four aspects of literacy—listening, speaking, reading and writing—for English Language learners. The included modules are:

English Skills for Middle School Students highlights and promotes the use of specific strategies to move English learners along the five levels of English language proficiency—Beginning, Early Intermediate, Immediate, Early Advanced and Advanced—through a focus on both English language development and academic content development. The included module is:

English Skills for High School Students focuses on literacy development—listening, speaking, reading and writing—through a range of approaches that are focused on developing literacy skills. The included module is:

Using SDAIE to Promote English Language Development focuses on helping teachers understand and apply the Specially Designed Academic Instruction in English strategies to help English learners develop both academic content knowledge/skills and English language skills. The modules included are:

Promoting English Language Learning:The Leadership Perspective offers school leaders an overview of the key concepts they need to understand to promote, lead, support and sustain effective ELL practices in their schools. The modules included are:

Teachscape Online Studies: The Effective Instructional Strategies Series

The following Summary Chart provides an overview of the five Online Effective Instructional Studies Resources that focus on understanding and applying a range of research-based instructional strategies, including the nine categories of High Yield strategies identified by Robert Marzano and his colleagues.Developed in partnership with McREL, the San Diego, California school district and the American Federation of Teachers, this series focuses on ensuring both teachers and K-12 students understand and apply the strategies to improve teaching and student achievement.

The Online Professional Learning in Effective Instructional Strategies Series
Summary Chart

Effective Instructional Strategies
Online Study Resources
Online Content
Part I: Marzano's High Yield Strategies
High Yield Strategies:
The Foundation
  • High Yield Overview
  • Planning for High Yield Strategies
  • Setting Objectives and Providing Feedback
  • Reinforcing Effort and Providing Recognition
High Yield Strategies:
Acquiring and Integrating Knowledge
  • Cooperative Learning
  • Cues, Questions and Advance Organizers
  • Non-linguistic Representations
  • Summarizing and Note-Taking
High Yield Strategies:
Practicing, Reviewing and Applying Knowledge
  • Generating and Testing Hypotheses
  • Homework and Practice
  • Identifying Similarities and Differences
Part II: Effective Instructional Strategies
Instructional Strategies to Improve
Student Achievement
  • Direct Instruction
  • Differentiating Instruction
  • Scaffolding in Action
Strategies to Deepen Student Learning
  • Foundations of Effective Teaching
  • Instructional Decision Making
  • Understanding Student Need

Part I: Marzano's High Yield Strategies

High Yield Strategies: The Foundation provides an introduction to the nine categories of instructional strategies and strategies for planning to incorporate these. It also provides High Yield strategies focused on identifying what students will learn and strategies that help inform how well they learn the content. The included modules are:

High Yield Strategies: Acquiring and Integrating Knowledge examines the categories of instructional strategies that focus on the ways in which students learn and how they can best synthesize and analyze academic content. The online modules include:

High Yield Strategies: Practicing, Reviewing and Applying Knowledge focuses on strategies that build comprehension by requiring students to practice and apply their kills. The online modules include:

Part II: Effective Instructional Strategies

Instructional Strategies to Improve Student Achievement focus on three specific strategies shown to improve student achievement—explicit, direct teaching; differentiating to address student learning needs; and scaffolding to support and enhance student learning. The online modules include:

Strategies to Deepen Student Learning promotes the teaching strategies proven to enhance and deepen student learning. The online modules include:

Teachscape Online Studies: Literacy

The following Summary Chart provides an overview of the seven Online Studies Resources in Literacy that focus on deepening understanding of the theories that form the foundation of effective literacy practices and the application of these practices to promote student achievement in the key areas of literacy—listening, speaking, reading and writing.Independent study resources in literacy are provided for use for teachers of both elementary and secondary grades.

The Online Professional Learning in Literacy Series
Summary Chart

Literacy Resources
Grades
Online Content
Part I: The Foundations of Effective Literacy
The Foundations of Effective Literacy Practice Elementary
  • Foundations of Teaching Reading - Phonemic Awareness
  • Foundations of Teaching Reading - Phonics
  • Foundations of Teaching Reading - Vocabulary
  • Foundations of Teaching Reading - Fluency
  • Foundations of Teaching Reading - Comprehension
  • Foundations of Teaching Writing
  • Foundations of Teaching Reading and Writing- Putting It All Together
Part II: Reading Research
Understanding the Research Base:
Perspectives from the Experts
Elementary
Secondary
  • Early Reading Success, Edward Kame'enui
  • Comprehension and Vocabulary Development, Isabel Beck
  • Effective Comprehension Instruction, Michael Pressley
  • Methods to Teach Children to Read, Sally Shaywitz
  • Preventing Reading Failures, Reid Lyon
  • Reading Instruction and the Importance of Teacher Preparation, Louisa Moats
Part III: Evidence-Based Practices in Teaching Reading (National Reading Panel)
Evidence-Based Practices in Teaching Reading:Reading First Elementary
  • Phonemic Awareness and Phonics
  • Letter-Sound Correspondences
  • Word Building
  • Fluency
  • Vocabulary Development
  • Talking About Texts
  • Comprehension
Part IV: Best Practices in Writing
Best Practices in Teaching Writing Elementary
  • Organizing for Writing
  • Writing Conferences
  • Sharing and Publishing
Part V: Effective Instructional Practices in Literacy
Effective Literacy Practices Elementary
  • Scaffolding in Action
  • Differentiating Instruction
Part VI: The Book Review Series
Essential Readings in Literacy Elementary
Secondary
  • Overcoming Dyslexia, Sally Shaywitz
  • Speech to Print, Louisa Moats
  • The Academic Achievement Challenge, Jeanne Chall
Part VII: Secondary Literacy
The English Language Arts Series Secondary
  • Teaching Vocabulary
  • Providing Text Evidence
  • Analyzing Text Structures

Part I: The Foundations of Effective Literacy Practice

The Foundations of Effective Literacy Practice provides research overviews, instructional implications and application of the key areas identified by the National Reading Panel as key to teaching reading successfully. The online modules include:

Part II: Reading Research

Understanding the Reading Research:Perspectives from the Experts offers the perspectives of leading researchers for critical aspects of literacy—the role of district/school culture in supporting early literacy, effective comprehension strategies, the recommendations of the National Reading Panel, strategies to prevent reading failure and the importance of teacher preparation. This resource includes:

Part III: Evidence-Based Practices in Teaching Reading (National Reading Panel)

Evidence-Based Practices in Teaching Reading: Reading First focuses on the essential elements (phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary development, fluency and comprehension) and proven, research-based strategies for effective reading instruction promoted by the National Reading Panel in their landmark study, Teaching Children to Read (2000). The online modules include:

Part IV: Best Practices in Writing

Best Practices in Teaching Writing presents effective strategies for implementing the writing process with elementary students. Together, the three online modules that follow offer a comprehensive overview of how teachers can develop the critical structures that support effective writing, improve student writing through conferencing and celebrate the final writing products by sharing and publishing the student text.

Part V: Effective Instructional Practices in Literacy

Effective Literacy Practices highlights two critical instructional strategies proven to improve reading practice and outcomes—scaffolding and differentiation. These practices are at the core of helping teachers target appropriate instruction to address student learning needs and provide the support the students need to become capable and confident readers. The online modules include:

Part VI: The Book Review Series

Essential Readings in Literacy promotes seminal ideas that inform teaching and learning of literacy. The three noted researchers featured focus on addressing the challenges that teachers often face in shaping effective literacy instruction:the impact of dyslexia, using the structure of language to promote literacy teaching and learning and both the assets and constraints of teacher-centered and student centered learning. The online modules include:

Part VII: The English Language Arts Series

The English Language Arts Series promotes improved student outcomes in secondary Language Arts by providing research-based strategies for teachers to use to improve their practice relative to core high school language arts content. The online modules included are:

Other

In addition to the seven Literacy Series resources noted above, Teachscape offers two basal-aligned series that have been customized for California—the Open Court series and the Houghton Mifflin series of online modules.

Teachscape Online Studies: Science

The following Summary Chart provides an overview of the two Online Studies Resources in science that focus on deepening understanding of physical science content and effective strategies for teaching the content to improve student achievement in understanding key concepts of elementary science—magnetism, properties of minerals, density and the impact of natural forces on the earth.

The Online Professional Studies in Science Series
Summary Chart

Science Resources Grades Online Content
The Earth Science Series 4–5
  • Investigating Properties of Minerals Using the 5 E's
  • Science as Inquiry: Investigating Erosion
The Physical Science Series 3–5
  • Investigating Density: Why Objects Sink or Float
  • Magnetism: Using Students' Questions to Guide Learning

Studies in Earth Science

The Earth Science Series promotes deep understanding of two key areas in elementary earth science—the impact of erosion and the properties of minerals. The two online modules included promote student engagement and exploration through specific instructional strategies proven to improve student achievement in science and other content areas:

Studies in Physical Science

The Physical Science Series highlights two important concepts in elementary physical science—density and magnetism. The two online modules shape student investigations through effective pedagogy proven to improve student achievement in science and other content areas: