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Building Capacity of Content Teachers through a Comprehensive Literacy Initiative

This session focuses on the need for a school-wide literacy plan, strategies for engaging teachers in building a vision plan for literacy across content areas, and identifying elements of an action plan to support building literacy across content areas.

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Building Capacity of Content Teachers through a Comprehensive Literacy Initiative

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  1. Building Capacity of Content Teachers through A Comprehensive Literacy Initiative CCR Conference Summer 2014

  2. Session Outcomes • Identify the need for a school wide/content literacy plan. • Identify strategies for engaging teachers in building a vision plan for literacy across content areas. • Identify elements of an action plan that would support building literacy across content areas.

  3. What is the need for a school wide literacy plan across the content areas?

  4. The Last Word • Three team members will read the information on a card and share a one sentence summary containing the key words to the group. • One team member will have the final word on the information presented. This team member will identify and share the most compelling information to support the need for a school-wide literacy initiative in a one sentence summary.

  5. Share Your Last Word!

  6. Challenge Ahead Cross content or school wide literacy - reading, writing, speaking and listening - is perhaps the most significant change faced by middle schools and high schools in response to the MCC-R Standards. National Association of Secondary School Principals

  7. Are Our Schools Ready? Currently, many schools lack the capacity to integrate literacy instruction in the content areas. Even if teachers are receptive to the idea of incorporating literacy into their daily instruction, they lack the training and resources needed to deliver that instruction. National Association of Secondary School Principals

  8. How to begin engaging teachers in building a vision for literacy across content areas?

  9. START the Discussion Begin building capacity for a school - wide literacy initiative by starting the discussion at: • school faculty meetings • grade level content teams • grade level teams across disciplines • mixed grade/content teams • leadership team

  10. Start the Discussion

  11. Share Actives to Start the Conversation • Review sample activities. As you review, ask • Who would participate in the discussion? • What would be the intended outcome of participating in the discussion? • Share with the whole group. • Choose one activity to share with the whole group. How would you use or modify the activity to use in your school?

  12. An Activity We Would Use

  13. What are important elements of a school - wide literacy plan of action?

  14. What is an effective school-wide literacy plan? An effective school-wide literacy plan guides action on many levels, focusing multiple activities toward increasing students' reading, writing, and thinking skills. A comprehensive literacy action plan has action steps related to key areas.

  15. Effective Components of a School-Wide Literacy Plan • Strengthening Literacy Development Across the Content Area • Developing Structures and Cultures • Building Teacher Leadership Capacity • Supporting teachers in improved instruction

  16. Taking a Look and Making a Plan

  17. Review Examples With your group, review an example of one component of a school-wide literacy action plan. As you discuss - • evaluate examples given • provide reflective feedback or questions • add other ideas that you think would further support a plan of action.

  18. Take a Gallery Walk

  19. Session Outcomes • Identify the need for a school wide/content literacy plan. • Identify strategies for engaging teachers in building a vision plan for literacy across content areas. • Identify elements of an action plan that would support building literacy across content areas.

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