2. SIM Professional Developer or Specialist

The training that was provided will help me provide instruction that will enhance students vocabulary in all areas of instruction.

Helen Barrier led the session on LINCing vocabulary that I attended.

Helen Barrier was the one who did our professional development at the Excellence in Co-Teaching Initiative Academy.

The SIM professional development session I attended was led by TTAC facilitators at the VDOE Excellence in Co-Teaching Initiative Summer Institute on July 19, 2017.  

Helen presented the information at a VDOE T/TAC Co Teaching Conference in July 2017

Helen Barrier is the SIM Professional Developer who led the session for the VDOE Excellence in Co-Teaching Summer Institute.

I received training from Helen Barrier for the Vocabulary LINCing routine at the VDOE "Excellence in Co-Teaching" Summer Institute.

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.