Teaching & Learning Initiative
Project CRISS

Training in Project CRISS has been part of SERC since 1997. Project CRISS has the goal of preparing educators to teach students how to learn through reading, writing, talking, and listening. Students are taught to apply strategies in all academic subject areas. Project CRISS provides elementary teachers with ways to incorporate the strategies into balanced reading programs. Middle school teachers use Project CRISS as the core for integrating curriculum and for working as teaching teams. Project CRISS provides a common vocabulary and an instructional approach for collaboration. Through Project CRISS, high school students can be taught to apply learning strategies to more difficult learning and problem-solving tasks. Educators are trained in nine key principles, including Background Knowledge, The Author's Craft, and Teacher Modeling and Explanation.


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Project CRISS: Creating Independence Through Student-Owned Strategies

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It is important that teachers foster active learning techniques in classrooms. CRISS promises to provide a “grocery store of ideas that operationalize the theory.” Each day of this multi-day session will be engaging and interactive as elementary to secondary level teachers learn new ways to introduce difficult learning and problem-solving tasks to their students, including students with disabilities. Teachers can take what is offered, shape it, mold it, and make it theirs for use in the classroom the next day.

Participants in this professional development activity will:

• explore new ways to teach students, grades 3-12, how to organize and remember information;
• identify strategies for students to use before, during, and after reading to improve student outcomes;
• practice “write to learn” techniques, such as learning logs, framed paragraphs, and spool papers in order to facilitate student learning;
• outline how to incorporate essential reading and writing strategies into the curriculum so as to enhance student achievement;
• reflect on the use of the strategies in personal practice and plan their efforts to job-embed their learning.

Dates, Time, Location:

Tuesdays:
April 1, 2008,
April 29, 2008
and
May 13, 2008

9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
Hilton Garden Inn, Glastonbury

Presenter:

Lucy Krause
Missy Wrigley
Certified CRISS Trainers
Plainfield High School

Audience: Grades 3-12, Thirty (30) general and special educators

CEUs:

2.5
Includes: Full Attendance (all 3 sessions)
Post-Activity Application of Learning

Registration Fee:

$100.00 per person
Payable to Rensselaer at Hartford
(includes training manual)
Payment is due prior to the session upon confirmation of participation.

Questions/ Special Needs:

Contact: Holly King
Education Services Specialist
(860) 632-1485, ext. 242

Register By: March 12, 2008

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