EDCS-524 Accelerated Learning: Powerful Strategies to Close the Gap

This course focuses on the use of accelerated learning strategies and trauma-informed teaching to close the gap between students who are showing proficiency and those who have lost academic ground. The course explores powerful instructional strategies that have been shown to accelerate and maximize student learning. With an emphasis on strategy-based learning and assessments that utilize data-driven decision-making to accelerate learning, the course sets the stage with social-emotional and organizational strategies designed to establish a safe, inclusive, and supportive classroom culture. Participants then explore the newest and most effective cognitive, active, and metacognitive instructional strategies that close the achievement gap and accelerate student learning.

Credits

3