Following the popularity of
Opening Doors, Nora Friedman and Michele Webb provide more helpful, hand-on tips for bringing the Schoolwide Enrichment Model (SEM) to life in your school. Readers learn step-by-step how to create a schedule that includes a weekly time for enrichment learning experiences as well as ideas for injecting interest-based experiences into the regular curriculum, test-prep activities, and the entire school. Chapters cover designing a traditional Enrichment Cluster Program, using lunch and recess for enrichment, developing a Yellow Pages-style listing of student expertise, curriculum-based enrichment, and more. Friedman and Webb also share how they use the principles of SEM to promote a can-do attitude and address mandates, problem areas in the curriculum, and other school issues. To save administrators and educators time, loads of reproducible handouts and forms are included in the appendices as well as on a CD. Use this book to enhance your Schoolwide Enrichment Model program or simply to inject your school with more opportunities for enrichment learning and teaching.
Table of Contents
Part I: The Art of Putting SEM to Work
Chapter 1: SEM Every Day
Integrating SEM Into School Programming
Start with Your Students
Chapter 2: Scheduling Enrichment
The E-Slot: A Paradigm Shift in Thinking
Making the Most of the E-Slot
Chapter 3: Interest-based Enrichment
Designing an Enrichment Cluster Program
Setting Up the Program
Introducing Enrichment Clusters to Students
Celebrate Success
Facilitators' Debriefing
Using What You Have
Chapter 4: Using Lunch and Recess for Enrichment
Brown Bag Seminar Series
Getting Started
The Brown Bag Seminar Event
Chapter 5: Cultivating and Using Student Expertise
Developing the Book of Experts
Calling the Experts
The Value and Rationale of the Book of Experts
Part II: Sculpting SEM to Manage Trends and Mandates
Chapter 6: Curriculum-based Enrichment
Curriculum-based Enrichment Clusters
Getting Started
Using What You Have
Chapter 7: Using SEM Strategies to Deal with Test-prep Madness
Complying with Mandates
An SEM Birth Story
Responding to Mandates with SEM Strategies: Language Mastery Workshop Series
Responding to Other Mandates
Chapter 8: The Kaleidoscope of SEM
The Favorite Lens
The Surgical Lens
The Support Lens
The Booster Lens
The Shifted Agenda Lens
Chapter 9: Reinforcing Our Commitment
A Graduation Ceremony Consistent with SEM
Graduation Day
Creating Your Own Masterpiece
References
Appendix A: Additional Resources on SEM and Enrichment Clusters
Appendix B: Resources for Enrichment Clusters
Appendix C: Sample Brochures
Appendix D: Resources for Brown Bag Seminars
Appendix E: Resources for a Book of Experts
Appendix F: Resources for an SEM Graduation