Florida Standards: Teaching with Purpose with Dr. Janet Allen
Online registration closed on Mon, May 11, 2015.
Tue, May 12, 2015, 9:00am - 3:30pm
| Contact | Jennifer Rivera (former staff) |
|---|---|
| Target Audience | Instructional Coaches, Teacher Support Colleagues, District Support Personnel |
| Facilitator(s) | Dr. Janet Allen |
| In-Service Points | 6 |
| Delivery | Face-to-Face |
| Location | Bradford County School Board Office: Board Room, 501 W Washington St, Starke, FL 32091 |
| Fee | none |
This event is sessions 3 and 4 of a 6 session series. It is an interactive workshop designed to help educators, coaches, and professional developers support effective strategies for instructing the ELA Florida Standards in all content areas. These 6 days of professional learning will help you develop solutions for supporting this challenging area of instruction.
Janet Allen (EdD, University of Maine) is the author of It's Never Too Late: Leading Adolescents to Lifelong Literacy, Words, Words, Words: Teaching Vocabulary in Grades 4-12, On the Same Page: Shared Reading Beyond the Primary Grades, and Yellow Brick Roads. This amazing educator helped create the Orange County Literacy Project and directed the Central Florida Writing Project.
She currently works with districts to implement large-scale literacy initiatives.
Some of the desired outcomes for this event include:
• Articulation of a common language for terms used in, or related to, the Language Arts Florida Standards (LAFS).
• Development of a best-practice research base necessary for supporting teachers in understanding LAFS.
• Deepening both theoretical and practical knowledge of the reciprocal processes embedded in the four strands: reading, writing, speaking and listening, and language acquisition and use.
• Acquisition of practical tools and strategies to support colleagues in continuous improvement in instruction and student learning.
• Development of a practical, workable model of strategy instruction that will lead to increased literacy.
• Development of a working knowledge of available texts to support effective units of instruction.
• Analyze text complexity and the issues related to using only one measure of a text’s complexity.
• Learning coaching strategies that support teacher engagement, commitment, and use of LAFS as a set of ELA goals for all students.
• Developing practical strategies for supporting educators in understanding that LAFS is not a curriculum; rather, it is a set of desired results (learning outcomes or skills) which require educators to create the means to these results.
• Development of expertise and tools to support instructional shifts that must occur in order to guide all students in success use of these language arts processes.
• Document teacher needs and develop a differentiated approach to meeting those needs.
Sessions 5 and 6 will be held on May 27th and 28th.
Janet Allen (EdD, University of Maine) is the author of It's Never Too Late: Leading Adolescents to Lifelong Literacy, Words, Words, Words: Teaching Vocabulary in Grades 4-12, On the Same Page: Shared Reading Beyond the Primary Grades, and Yellow Brick Roads. This amazing educator helped create the Orange County Literacy Project and directed the Central Florida Writing Project.
She currently works with districts to implement large-scale literacy initiatives.
Some of the desired outcomes for this event include:
• Articulation of a common language for terms used in, or related to, the Language Arts Florida Standards (LAFS).
• Development of a best-practice research base necessary for supporting teachers in understanding LAFS.
• Deepening both theoretical and practical knowledge of the reciprocal processes embedded in the four strands: reading, writing, speaking and listening, and language acquisition and use.
• Acquisition of practical tools and strategies to support colleagues in continuous improvement in instruction and student learning.
• Development of a practical, workable model of strategy instruction that will lead to increased literacy.
• Development of a working knowledge of available texts to support effective units of instruction.
• Analyze text complexity and the issues related to using only one measure of a text’s complexity.
• Learning coaching strategies that support teacher engagement, commitment, and use of LAFS as a set of ELA goals for all students.
• Developing practical strategies for supporting educators in understanding that LAFS is not a curriculum; rather, it is a set of desired results (learning outcomes or skills) which require educators to create the means to these results.
• Development of expertise and tools to support instructional shifts that must occur in order to guide all students in success use of these language arts processes.
• Document teacher needs and develop a differentiated approach to meeting those needs.
Sessions 5 and 6 will be held on May 27th and 28th.