Course Highlight: Technology Applications for Teaching and Supporting the Struggling Reader, by Ted Hasselbring & Margaret Bausch*

Too many students are entering middle and high schools with deficits in literacy skills that prevent them from participating in grade-level learning. Students with low literacy skills quickly fall into a cycle of failure, often resulting in dropping out of school. This need not be the case.

Over the past forty years, research in the cognitive and neurological sciences has helped us to better understand how the human brain is restructured during the process of learning to read. In this course, Drs. Hasselbring and Bausch discuss how to leverage this knowledge to facilitate the use of technology to enhance literacy instruction for all readers, and especially struggling readers. They provide specific examples of technology that will help you teach and support literacy skills. The course is enhanced by screen shots, product walkthroughs, interviews, and footage of students at computers and in classrooms.

Learn how to:

• Facilitate the brain's process of learning to read
• Assist students to word level automaticity and fluency
• Encourage guided practice or independent practice when appropriate
• Develop students' comprehension skills
• Use video anchors to help students develop mental models
• Assist struggling readers through Read 180 and System 44
• Employ text-to-speech programs, visual learning tools, abridged text, alternate text, picture text, and supported text to assist struggling readers

What will you earn?

• Professional Development credits applicable to teacher state license renewal in the form of:
• Continuing Education Units
• State specific approved credit types (i.e. Act 48 Hours, CEUs, Clock Hours, CPDUs, PD Hours, PDPs, PGPs, PLUs, SB-CEUs, Renewal Credits, & USOEs)

Acquire the professional development/continuing education units needed to meet your state-license renewal requirement today! This is an online course, accessible 24/7 from anywhere that has an internet connection. Course format is self-paced with a video-based mode of instruction. Additional details on how to find this course in your state can be found below.

Course Video Preview How can you help your struggling readers? View clips of Bausch and Hasselbring's new course to see how you can assist students with literacy deficits through technology applications that keep them engaged and free them from the cycle of failure.

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