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Meet the NCLB Professional Development Guidelines
Reading Strategies
for the Content Areas:
Using the ASCD Action Tool
A four-day series presented throughout one school year
In this age of information, the reading demands of all students have changed. This series of workshops will give districts, schools, and teachers a repertoire of strategies to support student reading in the content areas. Content area teachers will learn to approach reading as a tool for student learning. Strategies will be explored and modeled with the specific purpose of developing reading comprehension before, during and after reading in content area materials.
Send a team to this training of trainers sustained staff development series designed for teacher leaders, content area department heads, grade level or team leaders or anyone who wants to develop an expertise in using reading to impact student performance in reading comprehension.
Your team will:
- Improve student learning and comprehension of content information through the implementation of reading strategies.
- Select effective reading strategies based on the purpose for reading.
- Teach students to use reading to take responsibility for their own learning.
- Learn how to teach, modify and assess students' use of reading strategies to gain information.
- Implement specific strategies in their classrooms between sessions.
- Learn to train all department, school or district content area teachers to use these reading strategies.
- Develop an implementation plan for your school, department or district to respond to the accountability expectations of NCLB.
- Receive and use a 396-page action publication, Reading Strategies in the Content Areas, developed by ASCD. See other side for more information about this valuable publication.
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This set of four full-day sessions spread over the school year provides multiple learning opportunities that are connected, relevant, and provide time for learning, collaboration, planning, practice, reflection, feedback, and implementation over time.
This series purposefully moves away from single professional development events to support schools and districts in specifically targeting the strategies to improve reading and the proactive planning necessary to improve overall school performance.
Our Presenters
Denise Pheifer and Patricia Chase have provided staff development in reading to Wisconsin schools for over twenty years. Both are Adjunct Associate Professors of Reading Language Arts at Cardinal Stritch University and bring years of classroom experience at all levels to their presentations.
Chase/Pheifer & Associates educational staff development provides research-based programs to K - 12 teachers in the areas of reading/language arts and mathematics. We provide practical, hands on information through proven strategies with a particular emphasis on integrating reading and writing into the content areas. Our on site staff development programs are tailored to fit the needs of individual schools/districts and are designed to support local curriculum and state standards. We are recognized for our experience and professional approach to staff development.
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Build Your Repertoire of Reading Strategies
with ASCD's Powerful New Resource
Because it is critical for all teachers in every grade and subject to work on enhancing students' reading skills, ASCD developed an Action Tool that quickly gets teachers up to speed on effective reading strategies and provides all the materials they need to teach strategic reading practices.
Participants will receive and use the ASCD Action Tool, a 396-page binder which includes 84 research-based Reading Tools that make it much easier to select the right strategy that will help students build their reading skills and learn the content they are studying. For example, tools for connecting prior knowledge to new reading assignments, making predictions about their reading or deciphering text they do not understand are included. Each of the 84 tools includes complete how-to-use instructions, teacher materials for classroom use, classroom examples, and a template for student assignments. All the reading Tools are an extension of the proven, research-based teaching strategies featured in ASCD's best-selling book, Classroom Instruction That Works.
Who should attend?
The program is appropriate for intermediate (grades 4 & 5), middle and high school teachers, curriculum specialists, staff development coordinators, and administrators as instructional leaders. Districts and schools will maximize their local resources to improve learning by sending a team of teacher leaders or department chairs and an administrator. This team can then take back the knowledge gained to share with colleagues and ensure implementation across the curriculum and throughout a school or district. Individuals can also benefit from this instruction.
Graduate Credit
Three graduate credits are available through Cardinal Stritch University for this course.
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