Learning Opportunities

This Literacy 3-Day Series is intentionally designed to deepen your understanding in a focus area for literacy. Research indicates that the most effective professional occurs when the learning:

• is sustained over a duration to allow time to learn, practice, implement and reflect
• has opportunities for collaboration and feedback
• is applied towards action research in which teachers participate in a structured process of inquiry to improve or refine their instructional practice

This series is intended for beginning teachers and for those who are new to teaching grades 7-12. It is planned to further teachers’ understanding of the foundational literacy principles that support classroom practices and reflective processes for secondary literacy instruction. We will explore how to use a critical lens in developing and implementing teaching and learning strategies, activities and resources.

Key features of the series will include:

• Creating a Balanced and Integrated Overarching Framework for Teaching Language Arts
• Organizing for Learning and Instruction – Making the Most of Your Instructional Minutes
• Exploring Disciplinary and multimodal Literacy
• Use of Technology to support Literacy and Digital Citizenship
• Using Mentor Texts for “Thinking Like a Reader/Writer”        
• Processes for building a “Thinking Classroom” to develop Student Competencies
• Establishing a Culture of Readers and Writers
• Exploring Cross-Curricular Connections and Transfer Learning
• Teaching Critical Literacy/Critical Thinking to Become Competent Readers and Writers
• Planning for Diversity and Differentiation
• Assessing, Evaluating and Communicating Student Growth
• Reflecting on our Teaching Practice