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For K-12 Literacy and World Language Teachers
The Ultimate Guide to Leveraging the Power of Concepts in the Classroom
FOundations of Concept-Based Literacy and language
Are you maximizing your students' potential as thinkers, creators, and communicators in your elementary or secondary school classroom?
By teaching literacy or world languages in a way that leverages your students' thinking and meaning-making, you have an opportunity to design units and lessons that move beyond skills to develop transferable conceptual understanding.
Concept-Based Literacy is a literacy model that is inquiry-driven and idea-centered, focused on helping your students to develop a lifelong love of literacy.
There is a better way...
here's the thing:
Have a crystal clear picture of what Concept-Based Literacy looks like so you feel inspired and empowered to begin experimenting with this approach in your classroom?
Gain greater confidence in working with concepts and leading your students to construct their own conceptual understanding?
Be prepared to design units and lessons that develop knowledge, skills, and conceptual understanding simultaneously, which provides the foundation for learning transfer?
Learn to leverage the literacy practices you are already using and take them one step further to develop conceptual understanding?
Wouldn't you like to:
Meet your program leader, Tiffanee Brown
Tiffanee Brown ia a certified Concept-Based Curriculum and Instruction Presenter and Trainer, experienced educator, thought partner to teachers around the world, and co-author of ‘Concept-Based Literacy Lessons: Designing Learning to Ignite Understanding and Transfer.’ She holds a National Board Certification in English Language Arts and an MS in Special Education.
Tiffanee is passionate about the power of Concept-Based Literacy, and she has developed a framework for putting it into action.
Your Program Leader
By teaching literacy or world languages in a way that leverages your students' thinking and meaning-making, you have an opportunity to design units and lessons that move beyond skills to develop transferable conceptual understanding.
Through highly practical and engaging professional learning that transforms theory into a regular part of classroom practice, educators are prepared to immediately apply the Concept-Based Literacy approach in their classrooms.
A literacy model that is inquiry-driven and idea- centered
Foundations of Concept-Based literacy and language
You’ll work on developing your first Concept-Based Literacy unit and lesson and have an opportunity to troubleshoot and refine these with a private coaching session with Tiffanee to receive feedback on the lesson you create.
One-on-One Coaching
Five self-paced video modules with over 40 short lessons that set the groundwork for Concept-Based Literacy and guide you through the lesson design process, and demonstrate lesson design in action.
Video modules
Self-paced learning to enhance your
unit planning
THE COURSE INCLUDES
Monthly group support calls with Tiffanee and fellow course participants - offered at two different times to accommodate time zones. You'll even have the opportunity to observe a lesson plan from start to finish.
You will receive your own ebook copy of 'Concept-Based Literacy Lessons: Designing Learning to Ignite Understanding and Transfer' by Lois A. Lanning and Tiffanee Brown.
Group Calls
Book study
IS THIS RIGHT FOR ME?
In this course, elementary school educators will learn to:
Weave foundational skills instruction, inquiry learning, and playful practice to develop both skills and conceptual understanding simultaneously
Give familiar practices, such as Shared Reading and Reading Conferences, a conceptual boost to also develop conceptual schema in the brain
Plan instruction that is driven by the desired results of a comprehensive literacy program to create an integrated, holistic, and balanced approach to literacy learning
Transform your approach to teaching literacy for only €650
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YOUR INVESTMENT
*Groups of five or more participants from the same school receive a €50 discount per person.
what educators are saying
"This has been an invaluable and insightful course. I have taken great treasures from it and I will enjoy developing my Concept-Based literacy teaching and learning skills."
Catherine Blowers, Singapore
"Thank you so much for your amazing support and very interesting course that got me thinking and reflecting on my practises. What a great opportunity it was to collaborate with teachers from all over the world."
"We are literacy coaches at Qatar Academy Sidra and it has helped us both enormously to talk and plan collaboratively throughout the whole process."
Suna Daoud, Sudan
Joanne cleland, QATAr
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- Feel that they are valued as thinkers — it feels good to use your mind well!
- Develop the mental models and conceptual schema needed to retrieve what they’ve learned when they are making sense of new contexts
- Be able to transform factual examples into abstract conceptual ideas
- Transfer learning across multiple types of literacy materials and genres, and to their lives outside of school.
Your students and their literacy learning are at the heart of this.
Come away with a crystal clear picture of what Concept-Based Literacy looks like so you feel inspired and empowered to begin experimenting with this approach in your classroom.
Gain greater confidence in working with concepts and leading your students to construct their own conceptual understandings.
Be prepared to design units and lessons that develop knowledge, skills, and conceptual understanding simultaneously, which provides the foundation for learning transfer.
Learn to leverage the literacy practices you are already using and take them one step further to develop conceptual understanding.
Why enroll?
Frequently Asked Questions
By being on the waitlist, you are ensuring that you will be the first to be notified of the next upcoming course dates.
If you have completed Module 1 and do not love this course by the end of your first week, we will offer you a full refund - no questions asked.
If you want to move through more quickly, you are more than welcome to join the monthly calls, and get feedback on a different lesson or unit plan.
If you are ready to make literacy learning more dynamic and holistic, leverage student agency and meaning-making, and guide your students to develop transferable conceptual understanding that they will value for years to come… enroll now.
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Everything you need to transform your literacy and language classroom.
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