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Research-Based Services
In partnership with districts, content-area experts, and world-class educational organizations, Teachscape has created a set of integrated face-to-face and online learning services that utilize the latest research on both adult learning and effective instructional practices. These learning initiatives focus on the issues that are of greatest importance to today's educators. The services are designed to:
- Instill in practitioners a deeper understanding of a content area through rich online resources, commentary from researchers and academic experts, and applications to their own classroom practice
- Offer vivid examples of exemplary teaching strategies with hundreds of interactive video-case studies of real classroom teachers in unrehearsed teaching situations
- Build site capacity via at-elbow coaching and site-based study groups that extend the learning beyond the Teachscape engagement
The content focus of each learning initiative is described briefly below. For more information about how Teachscape's research-based services can work in your district, contact the Teachscape sales executive for your state.
Addresses K–5 Literacy Instruction
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Literacy
Addresses K–5 Literacy Instruction
Comprehensive literacy services are offered around a core of content developed by such well-respected reading researchers as Isabel Beck, Sally Shaywitz, Louisa Moats, Dorothy Strickland, Catherine Snow, and others. Programs help teachers deepen their understanding of literacy content and effective practice, as developed through scientifically-based reading and/or balanced literacy approaches.
Addresses Content Instruction in Grades 6–12 for Struggling Adolescent Readers
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Reading in the Content Areas
Addresses Content Instruction in Grades 6–12 for Struggling Adolescent Readers
The text-heavy environment of secondary schools presents great learning challenges for adolescents who are struggling readers. In collaboration with Donald Deschler, Teachscape offers secondary teachers a series of research-based and proven strategies and routines that enable adolescents to access and learn the text-based content required of all middle and high school students.
Addresses K–12 Math Instruction
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Mathematics
Addresses K–12 Math Instruction
Teachscape's groundbreaking math services were developed with The Concord Consortium to promote a deeper understanding of the Big Ideas of mathematics and effective strategies and practices for teaching them. Research shows significant student achievement gains and dramatic advances in math instruction as a result of using Teachscape math programs. All Teachscape math resources, processes, and activities are aligned with NCTM (National Council of Teachers of Mathematics) standards.
Addresses K–12 Instructional Leaders
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Instructional Leadership
Addresses K–12 Instructional Leaders
Teachscape instructional leadership services empower school leaders to become effective instructional leaders through a deeper understanding of best teaching practices and the research behind them. These initiatives help instructional leaders learn to use data—from assessments, walkthroughs, conversations, and student work—to understand, promote, and sustain effective teaching practice in their schools. Services and support for instructional leaders are integrated with every instructional service package offered.
Addresses K–12 Teachers
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New Teacher Induction
Addresses K–12 Teachers
Teachscape's comprehensive new-teacher services are designed to retain teachers by providing them with the knowledge, skills, and support they need to survive and thrive in their first critical years of practice. In collaboration with districts, Teachscape helps new teachers along the path to becoming effective practitioners as they: learn the routines, procedures, and classroom arrangements that set the climate for learning; deepen their understanding and use of research-based teaching practices and strategies; and work with peers to break the isolation that so often leads to new teacher attrition.
Addresses K–12 ELL Instruction
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English Language Learners
Addresses K–12 ELL Instruction
Rooted in the work of Kenji Hakuta, these initiatives offer classroom teachers effective ways to help ELLs develop the English language skills—speaking, listening, reading, and writing—they need to succeed in school and beyond.
Addresses Pre-K Instruction
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Early Childhood
Addresses Pre-K Instruction
These groundbreaking, research-based professional learning services help teachers and assistant teachers provide playful and purposeful early literacy and mathematics learning experiences for children in pre-kindergarten classrooms. Teachscape's pre-K services, developed in collaboration with the University of Texas, Houston, are being studied through a rigorous third-party evaluation. Early findings demonstrate that children taught by teachers trained through this approach are outpacing their peers on every measure of learning—often at levels of significance.
Addresses 4–6 Science Instruction
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Science
Addresses 4–6 Science Instruction
Teachscape offers in-depth science education services organized around online resources developed by BSCS (Biological Sciences Curriculum Study), using inquiry-based approaches that are aligned with the National Science Education Standards, Benchmarks for Science Literacy from AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science), and the National Science Foundation.
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