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Conversations with A Coach Reading and Writing Process Institute
Building a Classroom Community that Promotes Literacy, Supports a Diverse Population, and Advances Globalization Across ALL Content and ALL Grade Levels
Your Site or at the Northwest Activities Center 6 hours, 12 hours, 18 hours, 24 hours or 30 hours
All
teachers are reading and writing teachers because all students need to
be able to read, write, AND speak knowledgeably about music,
basketball, computers, science, math, and government. To prepare
students for demands of printed materials that are filled with new
words and complex ideas, teachers across grade levels and disciplines
need to engage in “Conversations” about brain and research-based
strategies for improving students’ literacy skills.
A uniform conceptual framework for teaching and assessing writing allows ALL teachers to be calibrated to one another
A customized seminar series can be created based on the school’s data and teachers’ skill assessment. An implementation plan can also be developed to be aligned with the School Improvement.
Sample Topics
21st Century Literacy: Overview of the reading and writing process developing pedagogically sound writing prompts/assignments with criteria for success
Prewriting and Prereading: Building a Foundation –The Language Acquisition Process: Decoding and Vocabulary Development
Discussion Groups/Peer Response Groups
Revision: the Heart of the Writing Process – Teaching Students to Resee, Rethink, and to Rewrite.
Proofreading: Content vs. Correctness –Determining How and Where Grammar and Mechanics Fit.
Scoring Papers and Rubric Development: Calibrating Students and Teachers to a Single Standard. (Using Released Papers)
Owl Mountain Coaching A Senate of Retired Educators Asset Mapping Teacher Quality and Classroom Practices.
A dramatic and comprehensive intervention model used in a low-performing school that can produce significant gains in student achievement within two academic years. Ph.D. Club Title One Workshops It Doesn’t Take a Ph.D. to Produce a Ph.D.
Session One
Globalization has redefined work and the workplace. In order to $EARN, students must become proficient at collaborating with persons of different ethnicities, religions, gender persuasions while maintaining their own identity.
CONVERSATIONS: What are the skills, traits, values needed to be instilled in and reinforced with youngsters so that they succeed in this new world order?
Session Two
We are raising a generation of children whose brains are acclimated to a blur of text messaging, color, sounds, images, logos and, therefore, find it difficult to concentrate on reading and writing the printed words that represent textbooks and the workplace.
CONVERSATIONS: What can you do as a parent/mentor to help children succeed with the reading and writing necessary for success in a 21st century global economy?
