Power Strategies for Vocabulary Development

All of our training opportunities are site-specific. That is, the content is tailored to the expressed needs of the participants, and it is delivered to your site.

This powerful one-day workshop is designed to give core curriculum teachers a comprehensive understanding of critical vocabulary concepts and related research-based instructional strategies.

This workshop assists participants in identifying and addressing gaps in their own personal understanding of significant vocabulary concepts and relevant grade level standards. The relationship between vocabulary concepts, grade level standards, and high stakes testing, both criterion-referenced and norm referenced will be investigated.

Participants will leave this training with:

• A clear, grade-level specific set of vocabulary concepts
• A set of high frequency academic vocabulary words
• Strategies to evaluate and augment publishers' vocabulary selections
• Classroom-based activities designed to process and reinforce vocabulary concepts
• Cross-curricular applications for vocabulary
• Models for formative assessment in vocabulary

For more information, or to schedule this training, contact
PDK Professional Development at 800/766-1156
E-mail: PDKProfessionalDevelopment@pdkintl.org

Graduate Credit is available for this workshop. Call for details.

Our Mission:
We know, we believe, and we support that professional development is an intentional process, that it is ongoing, and that it is systemic. We know that it must be integrated within school improvement planning and it must focus on student improvement. It must be based on well-documented research, and it must be tailored to the needs of the participants and delivered to them at their site.