Training of Trainers Institute: What’s Different About Teaching Reading to Students Learning English?

July 29 - 31, 2008
8:30 am – 4:00 pm ET
Holiday Inn Georgetown, Washington, D.C.

Presented by Dr. Dorothy Kauffman and Dr. Betty Ansin Smallwood

Please join us at this three-day Training of Trainers (TOT) Institute on CAL’s newly-revised What’s Different? professional development program. Learn how to use this curriculum to provide professional development to educators who teach reading in classes with English language learners. Course size is small, with a presenter to participant ratio of no more than 1:25.

The three-day What's Different? Training of Trainers Institute is designed for ESL and reading specialists who are also experienced teacher trainers, ideally in teams of two or more, and is limited to 50 participants.

What’s Different?  incorporates key findings from the National Reading Panel (2000) and the National Literacy Panel (2006) and aligns with Reading First.

What you will receive:

• The complete training package (trainer’s manual, study guide, DVD, CD of transparencies)
• Step-by-step directions on how to deliver What’s Different? trainings
• Hands-on experience using the materials
• Training tips on how to deliver the trainings
• Suggestions about planning successful staff development sessions
• Discussion of delivery options, from individual sessions to full graduate courses
• An overview of other CAL services and programs
  
  

Daily Training Schedule

8:30 – 9:00 am	Continental breakfast and conversation
9:00 am – Noon	Morning training session
Noon – 1:00 pm	Lunch and networking
1:00 – 4:00 pm	Afternoon training session

The institute will be held at the Holiday Inn Georgetown (2101 Wisconsin Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20007, Tele. 202 338-4600). The hotel offers an attractive and spacious conference environment just steps away from the shopping and nightlife of historic, cobblestoned Georgetown. Shuttle bus service runs regularly to and from the Woodley Park Metro Station. Discounted hotel reservations can be made by calling the hotel at 202 338-4600. Please mention that you are coming to the “CAL Institute”. A block of rooms will be held until June 30, 2008.

Cost: $950/person. Send 2 people or more and pay $900 each. Cost includes daily continental breakfast and lunch, all training materials and three full days of training.

Register as soon as possible.  To reserve your seats, payment or purchase order must be received by Friday, June 6, 2008.  Registration will be closed when we reach 50 participants.

Cancellation Policy
No refunds after June 24, 2008. After that date, registered individuals can choose to receive the What's Different? materials by mail or transfer their registration to another individual. To cancel or transfer registration, please contact Marilyn Raphael.

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Questions about workshop registration? Contact Marilyn Raphael, Workshop Coordinator.

Questions about workshop content? Contact Lisa Tabaku, Associate Manager of CAL Services.

Return to the CAL Services workshop page.