The Inter-American Teacher Education Network (ITEN) will offer free webinars on Innovative Literacy Teaching Techniques in July and August, 2012.

The IRA-ITEN webinars in Spanish will address techniques for literacy teaching to increase students reading comprehension. Presenters include Adelina Arellano Osuna on July 13, Oscar J. Martínez Alaníz on July 26, and Paul Boyd-Batstone on August 10. All webinars are 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. Eastern Time. This webinar series has an online registration form in Spanish only.

For further information about and handouts for the webinars, visit www.oas.org/en/iten/webinars.asp. 

ITEN is a professional network of leaders in education in the Americas that promotes horizontal cooperation among the Organization of American States (OAS) member states to share knowledge, experiences, research and good practices in the field of teacher education. These webinars are offered as part of the ongoing partnership with OAS and the International Reading Association (IRA).