Reading ComprehensionReading ComprehensionPresenter: Jane ClaytonPresenter: Jane Clayton

Professional Development

Professional Development

I hope that I die during an in-service session because the transition from life to death

would be so subtle.

5 Essential Elements to Support

Adolescent Learning

5 Essential Elements to Support

Adolescent Learning

Collaborative Leadership

Assessment

Accelerated Intervention

Strategic Teaching

Professional Development

Strategic TeachingStrategic Teaching“As educators, we are ineffective

when our students are

actively engaged in a

meaningless task

or passively involved in a

meaningful one.”

“As educators, we are ineffective when our students are

actively engaged in a

meaningless task

or passively involved in a

meaningful one.”

Strategic TeachingStrategic Teaching

Strategic teaching is the process of incorporating purposeful

planning, connected strategies, and explicit instruction to

maximize the understanding and retention of content material.

The strategic teacher plans lessons with the outcome in mind. The outcomes of strategic lessons move the students toward mastery of content standards.

The strategic teacher plans and facilitates engaging lessons. Students in strategic classrooms her the opportunity to talk , listen, read, write and investigate everyday while actively involved in the learning process.

The strategic teacher builds assessment into every lesson.

The Strategic TeacherThe Strategic Teacher

Explicit Instruction:The KEY to Success

Explicit Instruction:The KEY to Success

• Explicit Instruction enhances learning for ALL students.

• New skills should always be taught explicitly.

4 STEPS:1. Introduce the skill.2. Model the skill.3. Guided practice w/ the skill.4. Independent practice & generalization

4 STEPS:1. Introduce the skill.2. Model the skill.3. Guided practice w/ the skill.4. Independent practice & generalization

BrainstormingBrainstorming

• Pre-Reading Activity

• Group Activity for helping students recall what they know.

• Quantity is highly values

• Brisk pace

BrainstormingWhy use it?BrainstormingWhy use it?• Can help students see that they

aren’t starting completely cold.

• Signals that you believe they are active learners from the start, rather than just passive vessels enter the subject without a clue.

Text CodingText Coding

• During Reading Activity

• A quick way for students to become conscious of and to record mental responses to their reading

• During Reading Activity

• A quick way for students to become conscious of and to record mental responses to their reading

Text CodingWhy use it?Text CodingWhy use it?

• Many students are not accustomed to thinking actively as they read.

• Symbols help to remember a strategy, notice thinking, and note where in the text the thinking occurred.

• We must provide mechanism of thinking deeply, rather than telling them to “really think” about the material.

ABC Brainstorm:ABC Brainstorm:

• On your own (2 minutes)

• With a partner (2 minutes)

• In a collaborative group (2 minutes)

• Sharing