Archive of Previous Webinars

Join us for Teacher Created Materials' exciting LIVE webinar event Talking About Text (grades K–12) featuring the author, Maria Nichols. This powerful webinar reveals a groundbreaking approach to significantly increase student comprehension while empowering students to think about text through meaningful discussions.

What you'll learn:

• How to get the purposeful conversations started
• Effective approaches to teaching purposeful talk behavior
• Why purposeful talk is needed for 21st Century success
• How to design your own purposeful-talk lessons
• Effective use of the "gradual release of responsibility" model
• How to help students create "habits of mind" that teach them to read, think, and talk independently

BONUS! You'll receive FREE handouts and the FREE e-book version of Talking About Text: Guiding Students to Increase Comprehension Through Purposeful Talk. But hurry as space is limited!

Listen and Watch Webinar

About the presenters

Join us for Teacher Created Materials' latest FREE webinar event–Implementing Response to Intervention for Florida Educators (grades K–12). This webinar, designed specifically for Florida classrooms, will help you learn the key elements necessary for a successful multi-tiered approach to your instruction in accordance with Florida's Statewide Response to Instruction/Intervention (RTI) Implementation Plan.

What you'll learn:

• A multi-tiered instructional approach to meet your students' needs
• How to use learning rate and level of performance to inform instructional decisions
• Systematic use of assessment data to effectively assign resources to students
• A detailed guide to navigate the stages of systems change necessary to carry out RtI school wide
• How to ensure fidelity, accuracy, and efficiency in implementing your RtI framework
• An easy-to-follow format designed that is both manageable and practical
• BONUS! You'll receive extensive handouts from Implementing Response to Intervention including ready-to-implement strategies for your classroom.

Listen and Watch Webinar

About the presenters Presentation Materials

This important webinar defines summer learning loss, provides important research, and explores ways to keep kids productive and parents involved when school is out of session.

Highlights include:

• Getting parents involved in their children's education
• Battling summer learning loss with the right summer activities
• Effectively implementing California Kids Learn!
• 5 easy, summertime habits for productive kids
• Designing an incentive program to reward students

(Right Click to Save)

About the presenters Presentation Materials

What this webinar will cover:

• Writing to Learn–How to teach writing effectively by facilitating the use of rich reflection and inquiry into content-area subject matter
• Learning to Write–How to teach writing effectively by facilitating the use of the writing process

Who should attend:

• Listen with your staff! Principals, assistant principals, literacy coaches, content-area specialists, and instructional specialists

Webinar Highlights:

• Infusing writing daily into your existing curriculum with activities to engage and motivate students in content-area materials
• Creating authentic writing tasks relevant to the content areas, which will develop higher-level thinkers and improve student comprehension
• Understanding and using rubrics to keep expectations reasonable, challenging, and clear
• Teaching students to recognize and use various forms of writing and their functions as a communicative tool. Expressive, Informational/Explanatory, Argumentative, and Critical Writing will be covered.
• Forming collaborative partnerships between content-area teachers and English Language Arts teachers
• Teaching students to actively read and synthesize information in order to write in response to texts
• Adding an array of "Writing to Learn" activities to your teaching repertoire
• Extensive handouts for all participants to immediately implement strategies in the classroom

(Right Click to Save)

About the presenters Presentation Materials

You'll learn important strategies to immediately implement into your instruction.

What Exploring Writing Across the Content Areas will cover:

• Learn to Write— Effectively teaching writing by facilitating the use of the writing process and the good traits of writing
• Writing to Learn—Effectively teaching writing by facilitating the use of rich reflection and inquiry into content-area subject matter

What you'll learn:

• Strategies to engage and motivate students in content-area materials by infusing writing into your existing curriculum
• How to create authentic writing tasks to develop higher-level thinking and improve comprehension
• Understanding and using rubrics to keep expectations reasonable, challenging, and clear
• Teaching students to recognize and use various forms of writing as a communicative tool
• Adding "Writing to Learn" activities to your instruction
• Bonus! FREE extensive handouts to take back to your classroom and immediately implement

(Right Click to Save)

About the presenters Presentation Materials

To succeed in algebra, students must have conceptual understanding, and problem-solving skills. Half the battle for success is engaging students in algebra instruction. Follow along with strategies to help students develop procedural proficiency with a genuine understanding of complex concepts.

• Discover a balanced approach to algebra instruction that encompasses conceptual understanding, procedural proficiency, mathematics vocabulary development, real-life problem solving, and technology integration.
• Learn tried and true methods of providing focused instruction that moves your students "from the concrete to the abstract to the application."
• Find out how to differentiate algebra instruction and meet intervention needs.
• Uncover new and effective ways of incorporating manipulatives and games into your algebra curriculum.
• Learn effective assessment strategies to monitor student progress.

Listen and Watch Webinar

About the presenters Download Presentation Materials

A major factor of student success in school is the development of literacy skills, including an extensive knowledge of vocabulary words and the strategies to learn them. Join us to learn a systematic approach using Greek and Latin prefixes, bases, and suffixes while focusing on building, reinforcing, and expanding familiar strategies automatically.

Listen and Watch Webinar

About the presenters Download Presentation Materials

Not only is mathematics an important part of learning, more importantly it is a crucial part of life. Discover innovative ways to provide targeted mathematics and algebra instruction to help meet specific intervention needs through sample lessons, activities and strategies.

Listen and Watch Webinar

About the presenters Download Presentation Materials

Understanding and interpreting content-area text is crucial to student success in the classroom. This webinar will help you teach students key nonfiction reading skills and strategies while guiding them on a journey through the content areas of science, social studies, language arts, and mathematics.

Part 1 Part 2 (Right Click to Save)

About the presenters Download Presentation Materials

Take a fantastic voyage with Eric LeMoine and Dona Rice as they examine techniques to build literacy skills through the discovery of science. They will go under the microscope to reveal secrets that will change the way you teach science concepts. Highlights include:

• Supporting science content through nonfiction reading - Discover ways to help students to delve deeper into science content through supplementary strategies and materials.
• Strategies to differentiate science content – Find out the best ways to help all students be successful in reading and understanding difficult science material.
• Simple, standards-based hands-on science instruction – Learn ready-to-implement approaches to teaching science including data analysis, lab instruction, and more using standards-based principles and best practices.
• Teaching scientific vocabulary – Learn to teach students how to master complex terms.

(Right Click to Save)

About the presenters Featured Products Download Presentation Materials

This important webinar explores differentiation in today’s classrooms with explanation, examples, and “how-to” advice. Follow along as authors, Wendy Conklin and Emily Smith, unravel the mysteries of differentiation and expose teacher-friendly strategies to help make teaching diverse classrooms easier.

• Examine the reasons why teachers feel anxious about differentiating lessons.
• Get an overview of what differentiation is, why differentiation is so important, and how it benefits all students.
• Learn the best ways to differentiate through content, process, and product.
• Pick up practical tips and hear concrete examples that will make differentiating lessons easier to implement.

• About the presenters
• Featured Products