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Summer Learning Strategies: Combatting the Summer Slide
Parent and Community Impact, Curriculum Strategies | K-12
The summer slide is all too real. One study showed that middle school students may lose as much as 36 percent of their learning gains in reading over the summer and 50 percent of their school-year gains in math! Although teachers have the best intentions to create great ways for their students to learn over the summer, they are often overwhelmed by the end of the school year and don’t have time to put together resources to combat the summer slide.
This course offers tools that teachers can quickly and easily implement so that their summer learning suggestions are ready to go long before the end of the year nears. During the course, you’ll learn how to increase motivation through student choice and get parents involved so they can support student learning even in the midst of summer travel and vacation plans. You’ll also see how you can set up e-mail templates so you can stay in touch with students and parents without having to compose e-mails over the summer.
By the end of this course, you’ll have a plan and the resources you need to help your students be active learners over the summer and guard against the summer slide.
Connections to Practice
This course provides the following classroom connections:
- Student choice in learning
- Learning opportunities while traveling or vacationing
- Language arts, math, science, and social studies resources to offer to their students
- E-mail templates and how to set up communication with students and parents for the summer, without having to do it during the summer
- Involving parents in the encouragement of summer learning
Course Objectives
In this course, participants will:
- Communicate why summer learning is important in order to avoid summer slide.
- Construct learning activities that meet the needs of your unique student population.
- Incorporate the use of student choice when creating lessons for summer learning.
- Propose ideas to students and parents in order to take advantage of learning opportunities while traveling or vacationing over the summer.
- Develop a plan for how to utilize the resources in this course to offer summer learning to your students.
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- Train your staff in as little as eight hours or delve deeper into complex topics in our longer courses.
- Replace in-person PD days with 100% online, self-paced training teachers can complete virtually.
- Get PD tailored to your school's unique needs with our customizable content and flexible solutions.
- Offer higher education rigor and quality designed to give your teachers targeted, relevant training they can apply immediately.
- Increase buy-in and morale by providing teacher choice while maintaining school/district oversight and strategic alignment.
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We intentionally plan and build our course offerings to solve real problems in education. We regularly update our existing catalog and develop new courses based on schools’ needs, trends in K–12 education, and continual feedback from educators. Depending on your needs, you can train your staff in as little as eight hours with our short courses, or delve into complex topics in our longer ones.
Our course writers are content experts with extensive subject matter credentials and classroom experience. They work closely with our development team to build an experience that is relevant, highly practical, and aligned with industry standards. Courses are not just filled with innovative techniques, but also illustrate how to apply these tools in practice. With each course, teachers develop tangible products such as lesson plans or assessments that they can use immediately in their classrooms.
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