How Landmark Teaches Study Skills
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(Appropriate for educators of children at the middle school level and beyond.)
10 hours / 1 graduate credit available

This course offers practical strategies for guiding students to become more active

and efficient learners. The seminar focuses on three areas that are essential to

gaining academic competence: materials management; time management; and information/idea management.  The explicit teaching and guided practice of study

skills within the content areas is emphasized.

How Landmark Links Assessment & Instruction
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(Appropriate for educators of children at any level.)
10 hours / 1 graduate credit available

This course offers a clear explanation for how to make sense of and make use of

the information gained about students from formal and informal assessments. 

The seminar focuses on providing practical knowledge of assessment terminology, scoring, and conversion so that participants learn to “make sense of assessment.” 

It also focuses on providing practical strategies for determining a student’s strengths

and needs in order to design effective instruction and guidance for implementing

optimal accommodations and/or modifications that enable a student to learn actively

and effectively.

How Landmark Teaches Writing II: Paragraphs to Essays
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(Appropriate for educators of children at the middle school level and beyond.)
10 hours / 1 graduate credit available
This course offers practical strategies for teaching expository writing at the paragraph, multiparagraph and essay levels. The seminar focuses particularly on strategies for

the explicit teaching and guided practice of each phase of the writing process: brainstorming; organizing/planning; drafting; editing/proofreading; final

drafting/publishing. Identifying areas of need in students’ writing and designing

appropriate instruction to meet those needs is emphasized.

How Landmark Teaches Social Communication Skills

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(Appropriate for educators of children at any level.)
10 hours / 1 graduate credit available
This course offers practical strategies for developing social communication skills

within the context of the classroom.  Many students with language-based learning disabilities struggle with the social use of language, or "pragmatics." Students may

have difficulty maintaining a conversational topic, using language to negotiate or

persuade, understanding and using body language, and establishing and maintaining friendships. This seminar focuses on practical knowledge of pragmatic language development and on classroom strategies to identify and address particular pragmatic language needs.