Monday, October 28- Tuesday, October 29, 2024 Location: Orange County, California Instructor: Amanda Hartman Hours: 8:30am - 3:00pm (PST) Grades: K-8
Teachers College Advancing Literacy is excited to host the Teaching Reading in Small Groups: Honing our Teaching Practices, for Teachers and Literacy Coaches Institute. This 2 day institute provides teachers, coaches, and literacy leaders an opportunity to study the teaching of reading, with students in classrooms. We will help participants match the reading research with the science of learning. Participants will study ways to support foundational skills, as well as ways to support students with inference and interpretation in reading. Participants will consider the role of formative assessment, student reading materials, and ways of coaching students to work with greater independence. We will show you how alongside reading skills, identity, motivation, and purpose are cornerstones to small group instruction in reading. Indeed, small group instruction can empower students to connect with one another, develop a deep sense of curiosity, and work to impact their world.
No matter your curriculum, students need opportunities for practice and feedback that small groups are perfectly poised to provide. Study together about ways to structure those small groups, teach with efficiency, and practice responsive, in the moment, scaffolding, drawing on a range of reading assessments.
This institute is designed for teacher leaders, coaches, and district leaders who are interested in both sharpening their teaching practices as well as considering ways to support their grade level teams in their schools.
This institute will focus on the teaching of reading in small group instruction, drawing on reading and teaching research.
All 2 days will be located in an elementary school, affording opportunities for in-person demonstration lessons. Teachers and coaches will have an opportunity to observe, and also to practice, reflect, and receive feedback from Advancing Literacy staff developers as well as colleagues.
Across the days we will get to think about ways to support oral language skills, decoding and fluency, as well as vocabulary and comprehension.
We will also discuss and study reading assessments to think about next steps for students.
This institute affords a great opportunity for those who want to study reading research and reflect on their teaching practices with others, supporting a framework for collaborative study to bring back to your school community.