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Supporting Balanced Literacy through the teachers college model

Please sit in mixed grade level groups today!. Supporting Balanced Literacy through the teachers college model. April 23, 2014. Today’s goals. Revisit framework / components of Teachers College Model for Units of Study Revisit Conferring Consider Word Work.

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Supporting Balanced Literacy through the teachers college model

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  1. Please sit in mixed grade level groups today! Supporting Balanced Literacy through the teachers college model April 23, 2014

  2. Today’s goals • Revisit framework / components of Teachers College Model for Units of Study • Revisit Conferring • Consider Word Work

  3. How will we get where we need to go? Professional Development will support elements of Teachers College Model PD sessions Book Studies Planning

  4. Let’s Reflect on Our Work This Year! • Let’s try out mentimeter together.

  5. Conferring – what is it again? • determining what readers have learned and what they need to practice • targeting instruction to meet students’ needs with explicit teaching methods • differentiating for students • researching a student’s use of skills/strategies through observation and questioning • complimenting and supporting • Teaching students not just how to get through the text they’re in today, but how to apply a strategy tomorrow…

  6. Conference components • Research (0-2 minutes) • Teach your students not to stop what they’re doing when you approach • Listen in to a student reading • Weigh your teaching options • Compliment (0-1 minute) • Teaching Point • Teach (1-2 minutes) • Coach / Active Engagement (2-4 minutes) • Link (30 seconds) • Document your work!

  7. Resources for conferring NEW

  8. Conferring – Let’s Try it Out! C: TP: NS: • K-2 Conference • 3-5 Conference : Old Yeller Refer to: • Continuum (pgs. 36-37) • CCSS: RL 5.1 (quote accurately from text when explaining & inferring) RL 5.3 (compare/contrast 2 or more characters w/ detail) RL 5.6 (describe how speaker’s POV influences events) SL 5.4 (report on a topic with details and speak understandable pace) Set up your index card!

  9. Vertical Discussion • How is conferring going? • What’s going well? • What’s still a challenge? • How is conferring guiding your instruction? • How is conferring helping students set / revise on their own personal reading goals? • What tools do you find useful for notetaking?

  10. How Do We Use Conferring data? • Form strategy groups • Revisit mini-lessons • Help students set specific reading goals • Hold students accountable • Assessment (tracking progress over time) • ????

  11. Word Work • Let’s go to mentimeter and consider what word work / word study looks like in our building.

  12. Tying up loose ends • Register NOW for the school PD work we’ve already completed for a total of 2 Literacy CEUs 1)LIT 367 FA13 Literacy Book Study 2)LIT 367 FA13 Developing Readers Workshop • Look to register for summer PD: • Summer Teacher Conference - June 16 – 26 • Grades 1,2,3 – July 14-16, August 4-6, August 12-14 • Teachers College Institute – July 21-24

  13. Ticket out the door… • Return to mentimeter.

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