Curriculum Companion, an online treasure trove of technology-based curriculum and professional development resources, offers the perfect solution for effectively using the adopted curriculum materials in English Language Arts while at the same time integrating technology into existing daily lesson plans. Curriculum Companion saves teachers time—no longer do they need to search for resources to support their teaching and instruction, the work has been done for them! Curriculum Companion provides graphic organizer, PowerPoint, and Word resources that are aligned to the daily lessons in the Open Court Reading 2002 and Houghton Mifflin: A Legacy of Literature adoptions for grades 2-6, and Holt and McDougal Littell adoptions for grades 6-10. Internet resources and United Streaming titles that directly support the lessons from the adoption have been identified to maximize teachers’ instructional planning time. All resources on the Curriculum Companion website are developed by experienced classroom teachers who understand the important balance of the value of technology integration and the need to keep up with the pacing guide. Because Curriculum Companion is online, subscribers have 24/7 access to all of the resources for all of the adoptions, which are organized by unit, theme, chapter, or cluster, and follow the sequence of the lessons and activities in the adoption. In addition to curriculum resources, Curriculum Companion provides a flexible, easy to use professional development program and a wealth of resources for teachers to increase their own technology proficiency. As a professional development program coordinator responsible for technology integration into the English Language Arts curriculum for your district, you don’t have to invent your own staff development resources. Curriculum Companion provides curriculum and materials to conduct hourly workshops, partial or full-day workshops, and multi-day institutes. All of our flexible professional development training resources have been designed to work with any schedule, can be offered to teachers in face-to-face meetings or online, and are fully supported with Curriculum Companion web-based resources through a trainer account. Professional development modules for Curriculum Companion include a combination of the research-based strategies found in Robert Marzano’s Classroom Instruction That Works, curriculum focused activities and lessons from the adopted materials, and hands-on technology training. Teachers don’t need separate technology training—it’s embedded in our curriculum focused professional development! Finally, Curriculum Companion offers independent online explorations for teachers and a library of over 300 narrated technology multimedia tutorials on using various software applications and web demonstrations including Inspiration, Kidspiration, MS Word, PowerPoint, Internet Searching, Thinkfinity, and more for teachers to access upon demand.Curriculum Companion is a perfect solution for helping teachers to learn to use technology while focusing on the adopted curriculum.
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