This session is targeted for educators who are not sure that the instruction, materials and the time spent on the foundational skills in their classroom is moving students to read on grade level by 3rd grade .
Sometimes teachers (and students)are not aware of the reading and writing demands required of Social Studies' texts. This session will walk teachers through a number of disciplinary practices with accompanying strategies to use in the classroom.
Tasks should be a part of each and every classroom. Why? To weave the standards together and provide the opportunity for students to fully engage with texts. This session will provide each teacher with a grade-specific tool to guide teachers to design tasks.
This session will provide participants with tips and tools to build student's reading stamina in the classroom. The Capture Basket, Annotation Bookmarks (for each grade level), Sentence Stems and Activity Guides will be shared.
Technology is awesome. Teachers are better. Blending new technologies into instruction is a non-negotiable if we are to help our students gain the skills they'll need to thrive in careers. And so too is educators' old school wisdom in planning intentional blended learning that works. Hence, BOLD SCHOOL. Bold School thinkers embrace Blended pedagogies and Old school wisdom. After all , the goal of blended learning isn't technology--it's student achievement. Based on Weston Kieschnick's book, this will demystify blended learning and provide you with a methodology to help you meld purposeful technology use with your old school wisdom to enhance instruction and learning via the Bold School Framework for Strategic Blended Learning. Vocabulary instruction will be used as an example of how the Bold School Framework can be used.
Two instructional strategies that can be often overlooked are interactive video and self-assessment. In the interactive video strategy you will learn the two methodologies of "Show & Tell" and "Tell & Show." The second instructional strategy is self-assessment. Learn how the self-assessment strategy has a beginning, a middle and an end. Based on Weston Kieschnick’s book Bold School, make sure to come and BE BOLD!!!
"Bueller?...Bueller?...Bueller?" Remember that. Don't let your class become that iconic movie scene. Through the use of Bold School strategies for questioning and Socrative method, you can transform your classroom into an engaging place. Also learn how to move from teacher-centric instruction to student-centric instruction with the use of Bold School strategies for concept mapping. Based on Weston Kieschnick's book Bold School, BE BOLD and attend this session.
We all know that we need to use direct instruction and one of the constants with direct instruction is working through examples with students and having them practice on their own. In this Bold School session we will be focusing on these three stalwarts. Learn about the value of these instructional strategies and how to take them from "old school" to "bold school." Based on Weston Kieschnick's book Bold School, come and be BOLD!
How do you make your students do the heavy lifting with teaching? While we don't want to spoon feed our student answers because E. M. Forster once said, "Spoon-feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon," we also need to make sure if we student-centric teaching, we do it with fidelity. These three instructional strategies that will be covered in this Bold School session do just that: peer tutoring, reciprocal teaching and problem-solving teaching. These can be used in any discipline and with the addition of technology it makes moving from old school practices with these instructional strategies to bold school practices even easier for the teacher. Based on Weston Kieschnick's book Bold School, join us and learn how to be bold!
