FADI

The Just Read, Florida! Office is proud to offer an online professional development to help teachers meet the requirements for the Reading Endorsement Competency 4 and 5, called Foundations and Applications of Differentiated Instruction (FADI). This 15-week online training will provide teachers and administrators with knowledge and skills to identify the needs of students with differing profiles and use this knowledge for instructional decision making to meet the needs of all students. Participants will gain an understanding of how to prescribe, differentiate instruction, and utilize appropriate strategies and materials from scientifically-based reading research in order to address prevention, identification, and remediation.

PREREQUISITE: Since this course builds on concepts learned in Competencies 1, 2 and 3, participants must have completed at least two of these reading competencies as a prerequisite for this course:
• Comp. 1: Foundations of Language and Cognition
• Comp. 2: Foundations of Research-Based Practices
• Comp. 3: Foundations of Assessment

This 60-hour training, delivered completely online, meets the full requirement of Competency 4: Foundations in Differentiation and Competency 5: Applications of Differentiated Instruction, of the Reading Endorsement Program.

The FADI online course consists of six instructional units, each containing a number of lessons. Instructional materials, resources, projects, applications, and tests are delivered seamlessly via the Internet with minimum system requirements for participants. The online instructor is the guide for participants to discover and synthesize content while providing feedback and reinforcement. Participants have 24/7 access to the course content and receive timely feedback from the online instructor. Technical assistance through online tutorials and a NEFEC technical support contact is also provided to ensure participants are successful. Review the FADI Goals and Objectives.

Assignments and Training Schedule: The FADI training is NOT self-paced. FADI offers flexibility to work at your convenience during the week but assignments are due each Sunday. Each week participants will spend approximately 4-6 hours to complete a unit with two or more lessons. New lessons are released automatically each Friday which gives participants 10 days to complete the lesson. All assignments should be completed by the given due date. Because threaded discussions are used throughout this training, it is important for participants to stay current each week so communication is maximized and discussions develop fully between participants.

In order to successfully complete the FADI training, participants must complete ALL assignments, score 80% on the post-test, submit the final action research project, and communicate regularly online with classmates as well as the online instructor. To earn 60 inservice points, all assignments must be completed by the ending date of the course. For those sessions running through November and December, the training will be suspended for one week for Thanksgiving and two weeks for Christmas vacation. No new assignments will be given during that time. Review a sample FADI Training Schedule.

Required Textbooks: The textbooks for this training are as follows:

When Kids Can’t Read What Teachers Can Do by Kylene Beers, 2003. Published by Heinemann (ISBN 0-86709-519-9). Price: $35.00
Fulfilling the Promise of the Differentiated Classroom by Carol Ann Tomlinson, 2003. Published by the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ISBN 0-87120-812-1). Price: $30.00

Please contact your district (Contact List) for more information about the books and whether or not they are provided. Notes about any arrangements for the books are noted on the Contact List. To order one or both books from NEFEC, submit payment to the address below. Shipping charges are included in the book fee. Once payment is received it will be shipped to the address provided. Send payment with request to purchase the FADI books to Heather Symonds' attention at NEFEC at the address below.

NEFEC
Attn: Heather Symonds
Distance Learning Program
3841 Reid Street
Palatka, FL 32177

Orders will be processed and shipped within 24 hours of receiving payment. The textbook is needed beginning the third week of the FADI training. Contact Stephanie Saxby, NEFEC Secretary, for additional information about book orders.

Inservice Points: Upon successful completion of all assigned tasks, a certificate of completion will be provided within two weeks following the end date of the training. This certificate should be turned in to one’s district staff development office to receive 60 inservice points for this training. Follow-up activities are incorporated in the training and no additional work is needed in order to receive inservice points. Participants will submit the certificate of completion along with a district-specific inservice credit form to the staff development office to be awarded 60 inservice points.

Registration for the FADI Professional Development: Online registration will be implemented through the NEFEC Regional Training Calendar and Registration System and is open to ALL Florida Educators. Registration for Online Training's will end on Monday, one week prior to the course start date at 11:59 p.m. Use the links on the right to access the registration for the desired session.

When the link to a session is clicked, a page with additional information about the training will appear. At the bottom of the page is a link to register by creating a MyNEFEC account. Follow the registration prompts through the next series of screens to provide contact information. When asked for payment information, please indicate payment type and enter the payment number.

Getting Started with FADI: Three days (Friday) before the scheduled start date of the training (Monday), an email will be sent to each participant with login information and directions for accessing the FADI professional development through Blackboard, NEFEC's course management system, at http://bb.nefec.org. Sometimes legitimate email messages are filtered by Spam filters within an email program. If you have not received login information by the close of business on the Friday before the training starts, please check first to see if the message is in a junk or spam mail folder within your email program. If you do not find it, contact Heather Symonds, NEFEC Secretary, to verify your email and to have the information resent.

Cancellation Period and Policy: There is a two-week cancellation period during which participants can withdraw from a training without penalty and receive a full refund if a training fee has been paid. If you wish to cancel your registration, please email Heather Symonds, NEFEC Secretary, with your request by the 14th day of the training (end of the second week). Cancellations can be requested anytime but refunds will only be given if one cancels by the end of the second week of the training. Please Note: Participants who have not logged into the training and completed all assignments during the first week will be dropped from the training by the end of the second week. Participants who have not completed all assignments through Week 2 will be dropped from the training at the end of the fourth week. The FADI professional development is NOT self-paced and participants are expected to stay on schedule and submit assignments by the given due dates as outlined on the training schedule. Participants who are dropped may register for another session only if space is available.

Code of Professional Conduct for Online Participants: Commitment to ethical and professional conduct is expected of every participant in a NEFEC online training. Before access is given to the FADI online training, participants must agree to abide by NEFEC's Code of Professional Conduct for Online Participants.

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Email your questions to knappg@nefec.org.

FADI Contact:
Garnette Knapp, Distance Learning Program Specialist
Heather Symonds, NEFEC Secretary

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