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Subject: EDUCNumber: 793
Title: Knowing What You Know: Summarizing Savvy
Level: GraduateMedium: Text-based
Semester: On-goingUnits: 3
Cost: $360Register: Online Registration (LEI courses)
Description: 
Everybody knows that the ability to summarize-to identify important information and structure it for meaning, long-term retention, and successful application-is an essential skill. And it doesn't have to be boring! Explore dozens of exciting strategies that you can use in your classroom to raise student achievement. You'll find a classroom-tested collection of written, spoken, artistic, and kinesthetic summarization techniques to use in your classroom to raise student achievement.
Objectives: 
  1. Understand why the ability to effectively summarize is such an essential skill.
  2. Design activities that incorporate effective summarization strategies.
Textbook: 
Instructor: Kyle Pederson, Joe Cotter, Dr. William Martin
Website Updated: September 2, 2008
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