2. SIM Professional Developer or Specialist

Helen Barrier led the professional development session for Vocabulary LINCing Routine.

Dana (my co-teaching partner and I) sat down to develop a strategy to implement the LNCING strategy.  We developed a co-teaching lesson plan and submitted it to our VDOE TTAC representatives on 9/11/17.  Our reflection on this strategy is that it is substantially different than the Frayer models we use.  Since our department heavily relies on etymology, the LNCING technique is putting us out of our comfort zone.  However, we are going to trust in the research and deploy this strategy despite our reservations.  An important component to implementing this technique is to seek out student feedback on which strategy was more helpful to them: LNCING or Frayer models.


* The names of our professional development leaders our not in the materials received at our co-teaching conference where we conducted the PD.

I do not remember the name of my facilitator but I found the information interesting and have used it since.

I was trained at the VDOE Excellence in Co-Teaching Demonstration Site Initiative Summer Institute.

Helen Barrier - Summer Institute - 2015

I attended the training at the Excellence in Co-Teaching Initiative on July 19th and not sure of the presenter's name. 

Ginni Bussey, from Radford University TTAC, has agreed to be my SIM Professional Developer while I pursue micro-credentialing in the LINCing Routine.