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Reading
Reading offerings at SERVE
focus on research-based instruction to improve teacher practice
and ultimately student achievement. This is evidenced by elementary
and middle school Advancing Reading Achievement documents,
research, and accompanying professional development; the on-line
Literacy Exploration Activity Plans that combine reading research
and practice on a variety of reading topics; GRITSonline and
its standards-based content activities; Competent Assessment
of Reading professional development activities that show
how assessment impacts instruction; and Reading First products
that focus on the five elements of reading instruction (print
document), scientifically based reading research (website),
professional development (website), and school leadership
(website).
Technology
SERVE’s program on Technology
in Learning focuses on improving the processes of teaching
and learning through the use of emerging electronic technologies,
including computers, the Internet, telecommunications, and
software applications. Technology in Learning staff conducts
research and development in strategies, methods, and materials
and provides technical assistance and professional development
to state education agencies, districts, and schools as well
as to educators in other settings. As part of its Technology
in Learning program, SERVE previously operated The SouthEast Initiatives
Regional Technology in Education Consortium (SEIR*TEC)—a
group of national, regional, and university-based organizations
dedicated to promoting the use of technology to improve teaching
and learning by providing technical assistance, authentic
professional development in the areas of curriculum and instruction,
leadership for technology, policy, and planning and evaluation.
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