The Key Vocabulary Routine: Train-the-Trainer

Virtual Online Training

5 Days: July 7, 8, 9, 12, 13

Learn to be a trainer for The Key Vocabulary Routine! Is your school or district interested in offering professional development for vocabulary instruction using in-house trainers? If the answer is yes, then this train-the-trainer might be right for you.

Description

The Key Vocabulary Routine is a research-based vocabulary instruction professional development program for teachers of any subject in grades 3-12. Teachers learn how to teach academic vocabulary throughout the school day using existing content reading and instructional materials. When used across multiple grade levels, students benefit from a consistent approach to vocabulary instruction as they move from grade to grade and subject to subject. The routine includes:

• Activities for previewing vocabulary before reading
• Four activities for teaching words by relating them to background knowledge and related words
• Selecting words to teach in-depth
• Templates and user-friendly definitions to teach specific words
• Teaching use of context and word parts (morphology) to determine the meaning of unfamiliar words
• Promoting word consciousness in the classroom

This five-day course prepares literacy educators to provide professional development for this teaching routine using face-to-face training combined with an online course.

Participants will learn how to:

• Deliver initial training to teachers
• Provide follow-up coaching to teachers
• Deliver a workshop for administrators about how to support implementation

Upon completion of the course, participants will become licensed trainers and can deliver training for their sponsoring school district.

What’s included:

• 5 days of training, certificate of 27.5 hours
• Materials: The Key Vocabulary Routine training book, online course registration, Level I Trainer Manual and all training materials
• Free access to the password protected Keys to Literacy resource center

Graduate Credit is available from University of the Pacific.

ABOUT CERTIFIED LEVEL I TRAINERS

This Train-the-Trainer model is for districts that want to use in-house staff to provide training to teachers. Teachers learn the teaching routine via a combination of face-to-face sessions (7.5 hours) conducted by district Level I trainers and completion of an online training course (approx. 9 hours). Level I trainers have flexible scheduling options for delivery in full days, half-days, or 90-minute sessions.

School districts are required to purchase a training book and online registration for each educator who is trained by a Level I Trainer at a cost of $100 per person (plus shipping for the book).

Recommended Trainer Experience

In order to deliver successful training for our programs, we recommend that Level I Trainers have the following:

• Experience teaching students in grades 4-12
• Experience delivering formal professional development to groups of educators, including the use of PowerPoint slides
• Background knowledge about research-based methods for teaching literacy

*PLEASE NOTE

The online course is an essential component of this Level I training. Participants will need to use a desktop or laptop computer. During the 5 days of training, you will complete online course modules, observe the trainer modeling the face-to-face sessions, and participate in debriefing activities.

Daily Schedule

• 8:30 - 10:00     training
• 10:00 - 10:15   break
• 10:15 - 11:45   training
• 11:45 - 12:30   lunch break
• 12:30 - 2:00     training
• 2:00 - 2:15       break
• 2:15 - 3:15       training

Address to Ship Materials

Please note that we will be mailing the training book and Trainer Manuals to participants at their home address, so we need your home mailing address on the registration form. Allow 10 days for shipping after registration is received.