Curriculum and Instructional Design
PREL collaborates with state education agencies (SEAs), schools, and teachers to further the implementation of effective standards-based teaching and learning. We provide technical assistance to SEAs and schools and practical support for teachers as they tackle the challenges of planning and implementing lessons, units, and assessments that enhance student learning and progress toward attaining both standards and achievement goals.
Workshops
Addressing Equity Issues Using a Standards-Based Curriculum
Audience: Teachers, Administrators
Learn the process and framework for developing standards-based curriculum units based on proven practices and create your own. Review standards and benchmarks, and learn the steps for developing standards-based curriculum units by examining a sample unit and then generating your own units to use in the classroom. The sample unit, Cultural Heritage, focuses on perseverance of cultural identity during time of change.
Breaking Ranks II (BRII): Strategies for Leading High School Reform
Audience: Community Members, High School Teachers, Administrators, and Supporters of High School Improvement Efforts
PREL offers Breaking Ranks II certification training. BRII is a research-based high school reform improvement process developed by the National Association of Secondary School Principles (NASSP). It provides strategies and processes to assist administrators in effectively managing high school reform efforts. The training focuses on building participants’ knowledge and capacity to implement the three core areas and seven cornerstone strategies of BRII.
Creating a Constructivist Learning Environment
Audience: Teachers, Technology Specialists, Curriculum Specialists
Constructivist learning remains a powerful tool for building knowledge and reaching high levels of attainment. These educational environments include project-based learning, problem-based learning, engaged learning, and other types of effective learning opportunities. Learn about the major constructivist theories and approaches. In addition, this workshop will allow you to engage in practical hands-on activities that demonstrate how to incorporate elements of constructivist learning into classroom lessons.
Culturally Responsive Sheltered Instruction for English Language Learners
Audience: K-12 Teachers
Participants learn the Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol (SIOP) model, which emphasizes making content comprehensible for ELLs. Participants us thee SIOP model to write standards-based lesson plans and units. They become familiar with what effective instruction for ELLs looks like and are able to provide linguistically and culturally responsive instruction to students of diverse backgrounds. PREL also specializes in culturally responsive work with the Micronesian student population.
Developing Instructional Units Which Build Understanding and Integrate Content
Audience: Teachers, Curriculum Specialists
Integrating content area curriculum into lessons assists teachers in ensuring that all standards and benchmarks are being addressed. Learn how to integrate various content areas into your teaching using a framework. A variety of resources are used, including the PREL-developed Weaving Standards Into Learning.
Picturing Science
Audience: K-12 Teachers
Participants learn to combine image and word by utilizing digital camera photography, science research, writing, and art. Focus is on the scientific inquiry process and ways in which to use methods of art criticism to help describe, observe, and form hypotheses. Observational drawing is used to develop academic and foundational vocabulary. This process offers students opportunities to express what they know and have learned in a content area using alternative methods. The end product is a Web-based student showcase of written and artistic work. http://www.prel.org/picturingscience/index.asp
Writing Standards-Based Lesson Plans and Units
Audience: Teachers
Where does a teacher begin when planning instruction in a standards-based classroom? Learn the “backwards mapping” technique while writing a standards-based lesson with aligned assessment, and plan a unit of study. Reading is the content area for the example, but the process is adaptable for all content areas. A variety of resources are used, including the PREL-developed Weaving Standards Into Learning.
Programs
Center for Learning and Teaching (CLT)
Websites
Pacific Early Literacy Resource Kit
Picturing Science
Teaching Educators About Micronesian Students (TEAMS)
Products
Booklets:
A Focus on Comprehension (Research Based Practices in Early Reading Series)
A Focus on Fluency (Research Based Practices in Early Reading Series)
A Focus on Professional Development (Research Based Practices in Early Reading Series)
A Focus on Vocabulary (Research Based Practices in Early Reading Series)
Weaving Standards Into Learning
Papers:
Assessing Early Reading: Change, Culture, and Community in a Pacific Island School
Instructional Leadership in a Pacific Context
Integrated Curriculum: A Reflection of Life
Integrating Academic Standards and Workplace Skill Standards for a Unified Education System
Language of Instruction: Choices and Consequences
Literacy in Indigenous Communities
Professional Development for School Leaders—A Hawaii Model
Reading Instruction for Older Struggling Readers
Standards-Based Instruction for English Language Learners
Textbook and Instructional Materials Adoption Policy and Procedures
Using Standards-Led Policy to Align Assessment and Accountability Systems
Multimedia
CDs:
Process Approach to Middle and Secondary School Mathematics: Algebra I
DVDs:
Teaching Reading in the Vernacular
Contact PREL
Pacific Resources for Education and Learning
Phone:
(808) 441-1300
U.S. Toll-free Phone:
(800) 377-4773
AskPREL
Phone:
(808) 441-1300
U.S. Toll-free Phone:
(800) 377-4773
AskPREL
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