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Includes:

• Helping readers learn smart strategies to get more questions right more quickly and manage limited time effectively
• Discovering which approaches work best for which types of student
• Understanding Reading test Reporting Categories
• Analyzing Reading test items to determine what is being measured
• Practical, logical, and easy-to-understand approaches to each type of question
• Examining ways to embed Reading test prep into high school curriculum

Why Take It?

• Acquire practical skills to pass on to your students
• Gain insights into the skills the test assesses and how you can help your students develop those skills
• Discover powerful tactics for answering each ºÚÁϸ£ÀûÍøReading item type you can share with students.

The ºÚÁϸ£ÀûÍøInstructional Mastery Writing course provides participants with a set of techniques, exercises, and resources to strengthen ºÚÁϸ£ÀûÍøWriting test preparation, identify and recommend strategies, and understand test structure and content. This course offers a systematic and supportive process for helping students improve their writing skills and boost performance on the ºÚÁϸ£ÀûÍøWriting section.

Includes:

• Understanding What the ºÚÁϸ£ÀûÍøWriting Test Requires of Students
• Thorough Analysis and Application of the ºÚÁϸ£ÀûÍøWriting Rubric
• Exploration of Many Strategies for Thesis Writing, Outlining, Evidence-generating, and Multiple Perspective engagement
• Guidance on Writing Time Management and Revision Strategy

Why Take It?

• Gain the skills to give your students a wide array of tactics and strategies for in a highly pressurized aspect of the ACT
• Learn a well-defined, logical, systematic method for teaching students how to go from prompt to completion with as little stress as possible

The ºÚÁϸ£ÀûÍøInstructional Mastery English course provides candidates with the information necessary to facilitate effective preparation for the ºÚÁϸ£ÀûÍøEnglish test, identify and recommend test-preparation and test-taking strategies, and understand test structure and content.

Includes:

• English content from Career and College Readiness Standards (CCRS).
• Item Analysis: What skills does each item measure?
• Coaching skills and remediation for improving
• English performance

Why Take It?

• Know what ºÚÁϸ£ÀûÍøEnglish is really looking for
  • What is typically tested
  • What is typically not tested
• Learn how to thoroughly analyze student practice tests
• Learn how to replace fear of the unknown with practical question-by-question techniques

The content of the ºÚÁϸ£ÀûÍøInstructional Mastery Math course provides candidates with the information necessary to provide effective ºÚÁϸ£ÀûÍøMath test preparation, identify and recommend test-taking strategies, and understand test structure and content. This course is focused on using a variety of techniques—applicable to different types and levels of student— to solve ºÚÁϸ£ÀûÍømath problems.

Includes:

• Structure of the Math ºÚÁϸ£ÀûÍøTest
• Initial Student Assessment
• Skills, vocab, symbols, formulas, and real-life settings on the Math ACT
• Using a Calculator
• Practicing with Authentic Math ºÚÁϸ£ÀûÍøTests
• Tips and Memorizations

Why Take It?

• Comprehensive review of math coaching techniques
• Tools for teaching students of all levels
• Understand how each aspect of ºÚÁϸ£ÀûÍømath can be integrated into the general math curriculum
• Analyze Math test items and discern student misconceptions

The ºÚÁϸ£ÀûÍøInstructional Mastery Science course provides candidates with the information necessary to facilitate effective ºÚÁϸ£ÀûÍøScience test preparation, identify and recommend test-taking strategies, and understand test structure and content. This course is highly interactive and practical and provides an opportunity to share ideas and teaching techniques with colleagues.

Includes:

• Teaching students how to:
  • Interpret
  • Analyze
  • Reason
  • Solve Problems
• Interpretation of Data
• Scientific Investigation
• Evaluation of Models (Inferences and Experimental Results)

Why Take It?

• Learn how to tackle the hardest aspects for students:
  • Reading speed
  • Time limits
• Help students learn key skills:
  • Draw a conclusion based on data or identify data that support a conclusion
  • Compare competing interpretations of a data set and determine which is best supported by evidence and reason
  • Perform interpolations and extrapolations using data from a table or graph
  • Identify whether or not a cause-and-effect relationship exists between two variables
  • Interpret data presented in graphs and tables (including identifying trends, independent and dependent variables, and units and scales)
  • Recognize the origin of data presented in a graph or table
• Proven strategies to maximize scoring at all levels