The Second Chance program

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The Second Chance program

Introduction

Stanley L. Swartz, Rebecca E. Shook, and Adria F were the founders of Comprehensive Early Literacy Learning. It was created because of the high number of requests forwarded by the public schools and aimed to provide the teachers with professional development of higher quality. The Foundation has been responsible for training above 17,000 teachers who are employed in one of the 1167 schools who are participating from 1994, the time of the Foundation's creation.

The Foundation's responsibility is to provide professional development aimed at assisting the teachers in improving their classroom practices. Special attention is given to the manner of teaching which they employ in regards to writing and reading. Teaching methodologies that are research based according to the reports of Report of the National Reading Panel (2001) are used in order to create a framework for instructions in the classroom. For Pre-Kindergarten-Grade 3, Comprehensive Early Literacy Learning (CELL), a training is conducted which highlights that fact that the goal of instructions especially in such young grades is to teach writing and reading. For Grades 3-8, Extended Literacy Learning (ExLL), the training is created to stress the writing and reading in the areas of content and at the same time understanding the instructions given in intermediate grades. This will include rigorous support for writing and reading developments.

At Grades 6-12, the Second Chance at Literacy Learning training helps the content area, reading, secondary English and the special education instructors in both small group interventions and best practice classroom models.

Discussion

The teachers are encouraged to use such teaching methodologies that are backed by scientific research. All the three trainings namely Second Chance, CELL and ExLL are detailed writing and reading trainings that joins the development of skills with language and literature enrichment activities. Methods of teaching that ...