Ready to empower your students to become active learners? In this session, you will explore innovative strategies for implementing inquiry-based learning (IBL). Use Newsela's rich resources to spark curiosity, foster critical thinking, and deepen content knowledge.
- Any member of the adult education community who is a Newsela user
This professional development activity/course is designed for:
In this session, Newsela Professional Learning Specialist Patrick Hurley will strengthen your implementation of inquiry-based teaching and learning with Newsela resources that support the formulation of compelling questions, promote diverse perspectives and critical thinking, and build content knowledge.
Why IBL? An important piece of instruction is putting your learners behind the wheel and encouraging them to pose questions, find answers, and apply their learning. This session will enable you to identify strategies to encourage that transition.
Course Format: The course is online facilitated.
Course Requirements: To complete this course, you must attend the 1.5-hour online session with Newsela. It is recommended, but not required, that you complete the 3 to 5-hour Newsela Certified Educator (NCE) Program self-paced course before attending this training. Click to begin the NCE.
Course Access & Support: You will receive an email from Jane Brandt (jane_brandt@worlded.org) one to two days before the session with a Zoom link and instructions on how to access the Zoom session. To ensure that you receive information about your training, please save jane_brandt@worlded.org to your email address book.
If you need technical assistance or have questions about accessing the course, please contact Jane Brandt at jane_brandt@worlded.org.
Can’t join us for this session?
This session is part of a Newsela training series. All Newsela sessions will be on Fridays from 11:30 a.m. - 1 p.m. See below for upcoming sessions in the series. More information will be available once additional sessions are posted.
- Newsela: Using Student Insights to Inform Instruction (Coming soon to the SABES calendar!)
- Newsela: Embedding Culturally Responsive Practices (Coming soon to the SABES calendar!)
- Newsela Certified Educator Program This self-paced course is offered directly from Newsela and does not require SABES registration. Just click the link to join.
Sign up for notifications to receive updates about additional PD related to Program Support - Digital Literacy. To sign up for notifications, sign into your SABES account, click the “My Account” tab, select the “My Notifications” tab, and make sure Program Support - Digital Literacy is selected.
- Design and implement inquiry-based learning experiences that leverage Newsela resources to foster critical thinking, problem-solving, and content knowledge in your students
Upon completion of this professional development activity/course, you will be able to:
You must have a Newsela account to attend this training. You can sign up for a free Newsela account using your DESE-funded Massachusetts program email. If you don’t already have a Newsela account, you can submit a request for access to a DESE-funded product here or contact Paula Jurigian at Paula.Jurigian@mass.gov for more information.
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