Strategies Online: Vocabulary Development | Successline Inc.
Program Description
Vocabulary Development is an engaging online workshop. In this workshop, participants will learn about different types of vocabulary words (i.e., basic, academic, and content), a strategy for having students make interactive vocabulary cards, and ideas of ways to have students use their cards. You'll also have access to plenty of examples of these vocabulary cards in the core content areas of language arts, mathematics, science, and social studies.
During this online workshop, participants add knowledge and ideas to their teaching toolkit in a variety of ways: video, online readings, links to other sites, research connections, and more! This workshop has been designed in modules to make it easy for participants to visit and revisit parts of the lesson. This online program is ideal for professional learning communities, a grade level, a department, or even a whole school.
Virginia Standard(s) Addressed
Planning and Assessment (ISLLC standard 3)Instructional Leadership (ISLLC standard 1)
Professionalism (ISLLC standards 5 & 6)
Program Goals and Objectives
By the end of this program, participants will learn how to:
- Review research related to teaching vocabulary to students.
- Differentiate between three types of words: high-frequency, academic, and content.
- Create a lesson to teach students how to set up interactive vocabulary cards.
- Suggest two activities for having students use their interactive vocabulary cards.
Program Format
During this online workshop, participants add knowledge and ideas to their teaching toolkit in a variety of ways: video, online readings, links to other sites, research connections, and more! The workshop is designed in modules to make it easy for participants to visit and revisit parts of the lesson. The program is designed to be effective for individual or team study.Target Audience
- district-level instructional leadership administrators
- school improvement teams
- administrators
- lead teachers
- special education administrators
- Title I administrators
- school leaders not yet making AYP
- aspiring school or district leaders
- all teachers
Self-Selection and/or Identification Through School Division
Yes.Duration of Program
This online program, including studying the materials and developing a lesson, takes approximately five hours.Outcomes Measured
This program is product based, which means there is a key assignment participants complete with this online program. With this strategy, participants write a lesson that uses the interactive vocabulary cards and then share the lesson with others. A rubric is provided to guide the work of the development of the lesson - and to use for feedback and guidance of the finished lesson.Program Evaluation
- Participants complete an online or paper survey; results are reported back to the host district.
- Quality of the lessons designed by school staff.
Contact Information
Mark and Deborah Wahlstrom
Successline Inc.
137 Pitchkettle Point Circle
Suffolk, Virginia 23434
office: 757-539-6513
fax: 757-539-6523
mobile: 757-650-3388
Mark.Wahlstrom@successlineinc.com
datadeb@successlineinc.com
www.successlineinc.com