Professional Learning Communities

Focus on Learning

Topic: Literacy Strategies Domain

Topic: Literacy Strategies Domain

Standards provide the focus. Assessment provides the evidence. Curriculum and

Instruction provide the actions taken that impact (positively or negatively) student

learning.

CurriculumResources

InstructionEffectiveInstructionalStrategies

Assessment

Standards

InstructionalEffectiveness

Topic: Literacy Strategies Domain

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEvi4cBZW6s

“Next Generation Learner”

Topic: Literacy Data Domain

Topic: Literacy Strategies Domain

Topic: Literacy Strategies Domain

Topic: Literacy Strategies Domain

Topic: Literacy Strategies Domain

Topic: Literacy Strategies Domain

Instructional Effectiveness Defined

The effective integration of literacy

and learning strategies.

Topic: Literacy Strategies Domain

Instructional Effectiveness

The effective integration of literacy

and learning strategies.

Topic: Literacy Strategies Domain

Elbow Partner ActivityWhat is Literacy?

• Use any resource available to develop your teams understanding of literacy.

• Explore the question,“What is literacy?”

Topic: Literacy Strategies Domain

Literacy Defined

• Literacy has always been a collection of communication practices.

• As society and technology change, so does literacy.

Topic: Literacy Strategies Domain

Twenty-first century readers

and writers need to:• Develop proficiency with the tools of technology

• Build relationships with others to pose and solve problems

• Design and share information

Topic: Literacy Strategies Domain

Twenty-first century readers

and writers need to:• Manage, analyze and synthesize multiple streams of information

• Create, critique, analyze, and evaluate multi-media texts

• Attend to the ethical responsibilities required in these complex environments

Topic: Literacy Strategies Domain

Adopted by the NCTE Executive Committee, February 15, 2009

"The illiterate of the future are not those that cannot read or write. They are those that can not learn, unlearn, relearn."

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-Alvin Toffler (Futurist/Author)

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http://ok.gov/sde/sites/ok.gov.sde/files/TLE-TPSFramework12.pdf

Effective

• Literacy, the practice of reading, writing, spelling, listening and speaking, is embedded in ALL content areas as an explicit learning objective.

• Displays basic recognition of the importance of literacy as the “bonding agent” for literacy.

Topic: Literacy Strategies Domain

Highly Effective

• …and its definition is expanded to include visual representations, expressions of ideas, making decisions, and solving problems.

• Leverages as the “bonding agent” for all learning.

Topic: Literacy Strategies Domain

What is Learning Strategies Instruction?

Strategy instruction is a powerful student-centered approach to teaching that is backed by years of quality research. In fact, strategic approaches to learning new concepts and skills are often what separate good learners from poor ones.

Topic: Literacy Strategies Domain

Literacy Strategies for Every Content Area

• Building Academic Vocabulary• Before-During-After Reading

Guides• Graphic Organizers• Note-taking • Formal and Informal Writing

Assignments• Cooperative Learning

Topic: Literacy Strategies Domain

Elbow Partner Activity

• Explore the Instructional Effectiveness - Literacy and Learning Strategies

• Which strategies are you comfortable using in your classroom?

• Which strategies are you not comfortable using in your classroom?

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Handout —

Effective Instructional Strategies

Topic: Literacy Strategies Domain

• Brainstorm• Cooperative Learning• Demonstration• Discourse • Guided Practice• Inquiry• Instructional Technology

• Lecture• Memorization

• Note-taking / Graphic Organizers

• Presentations / Exhibition

• Problem-based Learning

• Project Design • Research• Simulation / Role-playing

• Socratic Seminar• Teacher Questioning• Work-based Learning

Effective Instructional Strategies

Topic: Literacy Strategies Domain

• Building Academic Vocabulary

• Before-During-After Reading Guides

• Brainstorm• Cooperative Learning • Demonstration• Discourse• Guided Practice• Inquiry• Instructional Technology• Lecture

• Memorization• Note-taking / Graphic

Organizers• Formal and Informal

Writing• Presentations / Exhibition• Problem-based Learning • Project Design• Research• Simulation / Role-playing• Socratic Seminar• Teacher Questioning• Work-based Learning

Socratic Seminars• The Socratic seminar is a formal discussion,

based on a text, in which the leader asks open-ended questions. Within the context of the discussion, students listen closely to the comments of others, thinking critically for themselves, and articulate their own thoughts and their responses to the thoughts of others. They learn to work cooperatively and to question intelligently and civilly.

Topic: Literacy Strategies Domain

- Israel, Elfie.  (2002)

Learner Responsibility

Topic: Literacy Strategies Domain

Fidelity of Implementation

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Elbow Partner Activity

• Why did you decide to be a teacher?

• What did you want to see as a result of your teaching?

Topic: Literacy Strategies Domain

• It has become increasingly difficult to make a difference on your own.

• However, working together we can make a difference.

• One step at a time…we can make a difference!

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