In-School Teacher Training Program
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Summary Superintendents, curriculum specialists and public elementary school principals invite Reading Reform Foundation to send skilled teaching consultants into the schools.� These consultants provide training directly in the classroom and conduct individual conferences with the classroom teacher to supplement the classroom instruction. Reading Reform Foundation's in-school teacher training program is available only in
For more detailed information about the In-School Teacher Training Program, click here. In addition, the Parent Involvement Program, parents of the children in Reading Reform Foundation classrooms have the opportunity to participate in mini-courses and/or workshops which explain and demonstrate the training their children's teachers are receiving.� Through the program, parents can also become active partners in their children's education. For information on how the Reading Reform Foundation In-School Teacher Training Program and/or the Parent Involvement Program can work in your school or district, please contact: Lauren Wedeles, Executive Director or email: � |
| What principals have said about the program: |
| "Since we
piloted the program with one first grade class 4 years ago, our
standardized test scores have risen. Last year, most of our forth graders
who received the highest score of �4� on the state English Language
Arts (ELA) exam, were from our first Reading Reform class.��
We just received our forth grade ELA test results for this year- our school improved 13% , more than double the improvement of every elementary school in our District, and the third highest improvement of all elementary schools in our Region.�� We strongly believe that our use of the Orton-Gillingham approach as used by Reading Reform Foundation, is building a solid foundation for our early childhood students, most specifically our English language learners." |
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| "I observed a training lesson between a consultant and teacher [with] a group of 30 bilingual students.� I was amazed at how much they had learned since the beginning of the year...�� They've learned to put sounds together to read words, they make connections, [and] can spell and write creative stories and sentences." |