Professional Growth Opportunities Literacy

Professional
Growth
Opportunities
Literacy
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New
Literacy Series – Environments
and Structures for Literacy Success
New
Développer de bonnes
habiletés langagières à l’oral
October 15, 2015
McDowell Conference Room, STF
le 2 mars 2016
McDowell Conference Room, STF
Facilitators: Wendy Gervias and Lindsay Charabin
Animateur/Animatrice: Dana Sanders, Tina Anderson,
Yvette Beutel
1re -6ieme années
Explore the big picture of reading instruction and the
environments and structures that support building strong
readers. Examine the connections between curriculum,
structures for effective programming, engagement, environment
and brain research.
Literacy Series – Cracking the Code –
Building Skills for Literacy for Success
New
November 30, 2015
McDowell Conference Room, STF
Facilitators: Connie Molnar and Roberta Luchinski
Pour appuyer l’élève en immersion française, l’enseignement
direct des habilités langagières orales réduit les idées fausses
ou fossilisées. Fondé sur le projet de recherche de McDowell
Foundation Moving Into the 21st Century With Second
Language Learning: iParle français, cet atelier amènera les
participants à explorer comment créer une salle de classe qui
favorise le langage oral.
ew
Multi-literacies, Visual Literacies N
and the Graphic Novel as a Multimodal Text
Explore the foundational elements of building strong readers
through fluency, making meaning and decoding. Make
connections between curriculum and effective practices with
cues and conventions, formative assessment and conferring.
October 21, 2015 and March 8, 2016
McDowell Conference Room, STF
Literacy Series – Making Meaning – New
Building Comprehension for Literacy Success
These sessions will explore teachers’ understandings of
multi-literacies, visual literacy and the graphic novel as a
multimodal text. Furthermore, the history, elements, benefits,
misconceptions and use of graphic novels as a tool for
supporting multi-literacies in the curriculum will be examined.
January 21, 2016
McDowell Conference Room, STF
Facilitators: Michelle Pantel and Kim Scharf
Explore the elements of building strong readers through the
skills needed for comprehension and metacognition. Examine
the connections among curriculum, effective programing,
formative assessment and a variety of comprehension
strategies used when reading fiction and non-fiction.
Facilitator: Scott Allen
Grades 9-12
Comprehension Strategies in Senior Science
February 25, 2016
McDowell Conference Room, STF
New
Facilitator: Terry Johanson and Scott Stephens
Senior science classes require students to take in large volumes
of information from texts, media and their surroundings, as well
as make sense of complex scientific ideas. Comprehension
strategies have long been considered to be the domain of the
English language arts teacher.
DTP9560-50