Learning Opportunities

As teachers choose to implement reading workshop and Daily Five/CAFE approaches to their literacy instruction, it means allowing our students to take on more responsibility  while teachers are meeting with students during individual conferences, guided reading  groups and reading strategy groups.  

How then do teachers make the most of their conference times, maintain on-going assessments, and set personalized goals for their students?

How can teachers provide opportunities that enable our learners to describe their thinking and consciously select, monitor, and employ strategies to construct meaning from many sources? 

This workshop will focus on:

• a structured approach to on-going assessment
• an  examination of reading comprehension and thinking processes
• explicit teaching of strategic actions for reading
• how to make the most of mini lessons and anchor charts
• a variety of strategies that will empower developing readers
• how to foster lifelong learners

The research strategies explored in this session are derived from Boushey & Moser (“The 2 Sisters”), Brailsford & Stead, Fountas and Pinnell, Goodvis and Harvey, Jackson, Keene & Zimmermann, Pearson & Richardson.

Connections to Competencies:

• Foster meta-cognition -know how to learn, set goals and regulate own learning environment
• Highlight literacy, with communication and collaboration playing a major role.
• Engage in Critical Thinking –analyze, synthesize, and evaluate literature to construct knowledge.

What others are saying:

"I thought this was one of the most valuable PD sessions that I have ever attended. I learned so much and I loved that we were validated as teachers and not just "collectors of data"."