Susan Woo has been a teacher for over 20 years. She has her Masters in Educational Leadership and is passionate about literacy and student engagement in the classroom. She served as a curriculum coordinator in Edmonton Public Schools for six years where she supported teachers in all four divisions in the areas of literacy intervention, professional development, and assessment. Susan has taught all subjects in grades 7 to 9, high school English Language Arts, and literacy intervention classes from K-12. She is currently on secondment with the Edmonton Regional Learning Consortium and is proud to support teachers in the areas of K-12 Literacy, and foundational knowledge of First Nations, Métis and Inuit.
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Using Critical Lenses to Deepen Reading Comprehension 3-Day Series, Day 2
Presented By
Susan WooSession Details
| Date | Time |
|---|---|
| October 17, 2019 | 9:00 am to 3:30 pm |
Location
Grade Levels
AllIt is highly recommended that participants register for all three sessions in the series and as a school cohort to fully engage in a cycle of action research towards developing a deeper understanding of how specific research-based pedagogical approaches can positively impact student learning.
Day 1: Gender and Socioeconomic - please CLICK HERE to register for Day 1
Day 3: Psychological and Existential - please CLICK HERE to register for Day 3
Day 2: Culture-Race and Indigenous
Literacy 3-Day Series are 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 3-day series is designed to develop and deepen your understanding of how to use Critical Lenses as a literacy strategy to help your junior high or high school students to actively use metacognitive skills before, during and after reading. Critical lenses are an effective and manageable annotation tool that can help secondary students learn how to focus, monitor and adjust the strategies used to access deeper reading comprehension. Within this series, the following critical lenses will be explored: gender, socio-economic, culture-race, Indigenous, psychological, and existential.
Each session will highlight classroom processes that support and align with building conceptual understanding of thematic ideas through the exploration of writer’s craft. In this model, students gradually develop independence in recognizing what strategies they can use before, during and after reading within a classroom culture of visible thinking. There will also be an opportunity for collaborative planning for each critical lens.
Target Audience
Teachers (Grades 9 to 12); Instructional Coaches; District Leaders/Consultants