Literacy Tools for Inclusive Classrooms (presenter-led training)
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Description
The materials included in this course are designed for face-to-face trainings within your school, district, or school system. If you are a teacher, school leader, or staff development professional, download these adaptable materials to conduct your own teacher-facing instruction. After you deliver this training, ask participants to visit this page, sign in, and take the quiz to earn 1500 points with the Microsoft Educator Community.
The Literacy Tools for Inclusive Classrooms course introduces teachers to the Immersive Reader and Dictate tools. This course is designed to help educators learn how to leverage digital literacy tools to support their students’ reading, writing, and fluency development.
This Inclusive Classrooms course is for:
- Teacher trainers
- School site or district administrators
- School-based IT specialists, or
- Anyone who runs tech-based professional development for teachers
What's included
Inside the Presenter and Participants' packages below, you'll find all the materials you need to facilitate a collaborative teacher training session. We've also included a Support Library for future learning. Download everything, or pick and choose based on your school or district's needs.
Module 1: How might Immersive Reader improve access to grade-level texts for students in an inclusive classroom?
Presenter's package. Browse and download all the materials you need to facilitate a successful training.
Presenter's plan
This plan provides a purpose, background information, and time-frame for teachers' learning activities within the session.
Presenter's slide deck
A PowerPoint presentation that provides the learning content for the session. Includes:
- Activities
- Training
- Screencasts
- Script for the presenter
Presenter's to-do list
A checklist of reminders to set you up for success in advance of the training.
Invitation email
A customizable "Welcome" message that prepares participants with essential questions and expectations for their upcoming training.
Reminder email
A customizable notification to inform and remind teachers of upcoming training sessions and necessary downloads.
Training completion transcript
A customizable certification that the course was completed for renewal credit, resume, or validation.
Module 2: How might Dictate improve writing-based tasks for students and teachers?
Participants' package. Materials participants will use during the training and bring back to the classroom.
Classroom connection ideas
Encourage teachers to take these tools back to the classroom with a breakdown of activity suggestions appropriate for specific grade bands and subject areas
Classroom connection planner
A planning guide to help participants implement what they've learned in their classrooms.
Skills checklist
A list of practice skills for teachers to check off as they progress through the training.
Teacher takeaways
Visual aids to use during the session or later in class.
Module 3: Additional resources
Support Library
A library of resources you can share with participants at the end of the session that help answer questions and allow for more learning opportunities.
Check out the other courses in this module.
- Mobile Tools for Inclusive Classrooms (1-2 hours)
- Interactive Instructional Tools for Inclusive Classrooms (6-8 hours)
