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The Literacy Initiative: Reading, Writing and Thinking in Inclusive Classrooms and Schools (Faye Brownlie, Leadership for Learning Academy, Fall 2007)
The Literacy Initiative: Reading, Writing and Thinking in Inclusive Classrooms and Schools (Faye Brownlie, Leadership for Learning Academy, Winter 2008)
Y6 Mentors – Master presenter list, with brief bio and description of presentation
PRESENTATIONS:
Kim Boettcher
TOPIC: Applying Elements of Formative Assessment to Literacy Lessons
A Strategic Literacy Lesson Plan: Enabling All Learners to Access Text in a Meaningful Way
Gerry Brennan
TOPIC: Collaborative Planning
Burial Site Lesson Plan and Assessment
Holly Colquhoun
TOPIC: Book Talk – A Book for Every Student
Blogging: An Innovative Way to Improve Literacy
Bev Craig
TOPIC: Engaging Students in Their Learning
Student as Learner
Ingrid Fawcett
TOPIC: Increasing Implementation: The Friendly Classroom Model
Supporting New Teachers in Literacy for Learning in the Middle and Secondary School Content Areas
Grant Frend
TOPIC: Connecting with At-Risk Youth
Aligning the Circle: Strategies for Successful Literature Circles in the Secondary School Classroom
Karen Greaux
TOPIC: Communicating Mathematically
Communicating Mathematically
Lisa Kean
TOPIC: 6 Traits of Writing
Reading Fusion from Assessment to Reading
Linda Klein
TOPIC: Supporting/Enhancing Reading Comprehension in Science and Social Studies
Enlarging My Circle
Julie Krall
TOPIC: Using Metaphor and Comparison to Make Connections to Text
Teaching and Assessing Inferencing as Part of Literature Circles
Jane Kruks
TOPIC: My Students Simply Cannot Make Inferences!!!
Can the Inquiry Approach Engage Readers and Writers?
My Students Simply Cannot Make Inferences!
Carol-Ann Leidloff
TOPIC: My Toboggan/Sunflakes: A Reading/Oral Language/Writing Sequence with Integrated Assessment
Michelle Miller-Gauthier
TOPIC: Dream or Reality? Working with a small group while other students work quietly and thoughtfully
15 Elements of Instructional Leadership (article by Douglas Fisher and Gay Ivey attached)
Barb McLaughlin
TOPIC: Poetry Circles
Gradual Release of Responsibility and Reading Responses
Marni McMahan
TOPIC: Knitting it all Together: How to teach strategies for organizing and holding thinking throughout the day
What Do I Do Next?
Wanda Mitchell
TOPIC: Contrast What You Think With the Author’s Perspective
Asking Questions and Determining Important Ideas in a Non-Fiction Text Linking Literature to the Curriculum
Natalie Morissette
TOPIC: Co-creating Your Criteria Using Students’ Voice and Their Work Samples
Two Models for Collaborating with Parents
Louise Neuls
TOPIC: Running Records – Assessment FOR Learning
Differentiating Instruction for Literacy Centers
Wendy Newport
TOPIC: Enhancing Ethical and Responsible Behavior with Picture Books
Successful Stories: Supporting All Readers and Writers in the Primary Classroom through the Use of Story
Lori Robinson
TOPIC: Graphic Organizers Are Not Worksheets!
Oral Language / File Folder Activity
Graphic Organizers Are Not Worksheets!
What's the Big Idea (worksheet)
Asking Questions Thinkmark
Character Sheet and Traits List
What's the Main Idea?
Experiment Proposal Form – Science Fair
Content Brainstorming (worksheet)
Rob Sidley
TOPIC: Tailoring Math Teaching
Differentiated Instruction: Meeting the Needs of All Learners in the Mathematics Classroom
Kelsey Swanson
TOPIC: Engage with Text!
Voices in the Park
Voices in the Park Rubric
Laura Tait
TOPIC: Teaching and Learning with Aboriginal content
QAR – Question-Answer Relationships
RAFT – Role/Audience/Format/Topic
Content Brainstorming
4 Squares Template
DART chart
Sticky Notes
Terry Taylor
FALL 2007 TOPIC: Online Literature Circles
Online Literature Circles
WINTER 2008 TOPIC: We are Canadian!!!
To come
Mike Ward
TOPIC: The LEARNING CYCLE: How to weave Universal Design and Gradual Release into lesson planning
What is Working
Erika Warkentin
FALL 2007 TOPIC: The New LA IRP: A Focus on Oral Language and Assessment
Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus – Kindergarten Oral Language, Reading, Writing and Social Responsibility Sequence
English Language K–7 IRP Prescribed Learning Outcomes 2007
WINTER 2008 TOPIC: The Power of Talk and Role-Play to Extend Thinking, Deepen Understandings and Differentiate Instruction Across the Curriculum
To come
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES:
Why Do Ants Dig? Three Primary Teachers Journey With the Power of Questioning in Primary Research (Colleen Reimer, Louesa Newman, Lisa Schwartz, BCPTA Newsletter, summer/fall 2007)
How to Talk So Teachers Listen (Laura Lipton, Bruce Wellman, ASCD Educational Leadership, Sep 2007)
