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Online Courses for Reading Teachers - Iris Obille Lafferty, techLearning

This year's renewed emphasis on teacher quality has prompted a boom in e-learning options for professional development. And given the emphasis of No Child Left Behind, the current topic of choice is reading. Today's sources of such programs are numerous — with training embedded into curriculum offerings from Compass, Plato, and others; targeted instruction by Lexia, IntelliTools, and other publishers traditionally addressing a special education population; and a range of solutions from universities (see "Professional Development: 21st Century Models" in the August 2003 issue).The online professional development courses reviewed this month are some of the most current and visible for the mainstream K-12 reading market. Offering instruction independent of specific language arts texts, these four products bridge findings from recent literacy research and translate them into fresh, practical, and effective ideas for the classroom.


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