PAF’s professional development focuses on multisensory techniques for teaching reading, spelling, and handwriting in the primary grades. Topics include research-based instructional practices on developing accurate decoding and fluent reading through direct explicit instruction, building vocabulary and comprehension, lesson planning, and assessments.
Courses are taught and support is given by Master Teachers with years of experience teaching PAF in public and independent schools.
For K-5 teachers.
For individual teachers seeking professional development in the PAF Reading Program or for new staff hired by districts or schools already implementing PAF, we offer a 16-hour course delivered through a synchronous platform.
The PAF Professional Development for Teachers consists of two parts:
Course (12 hours) will cover:
Ongoing Support (4.5 hours) will include:
Following are upcoming dates available for the PAF Professional Development for Teachers and pricing:
Description | Total Number of Hours | Total Price | Course Qty |
---|---|---|---|
Winter Session Course Ongoing Support: |
16.5 | $600 per person (Including Teacher Handbook) |
Teachers can also attend one of the Multisensory Reading Instruction Courses, PAF Part I or Part II, offered at the Windward Institute. Please contact wi@thewindwardschool.org for information and to sign up.
PAF Proficiency Tests
In this two-hour workshop, participants will learn how to administer and analyze the PAF Proficiency Tests. In addition, Master Teachers will explain how to use the qualitative information from this assessment to inform classroom instruction and establish instructional goals for your students.
Syllabication and Spelling Rules
In this two-hour workshop, participants will learn how to teach the six syllable types and four rules for dividing words into syllables to help students read multisyllabic words of increasing length. Students will find it much easier to read longer words by breaking them into shorter segments.
The second part of the workshop, Spelling Rules, will focus on the explicit instruction of the rules taught in PAF that focus on short vowels needing an extra letter and rules that govern adding suffixes to root words.
Description | Total Number of Hours | Total Price | Course Qty |
---|---|---|---|
PAF Proficiency Tests Dates: November 16, 2023 |
2 | $80 |
Contact us at customer.service@pafprogram.com |
Syllabication and Spelling Rules Dates: March 5, 2024 |
2 | $80 |