Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Yay!!!
Hands on activities
Open and safe environment
Sharing with colleagues
In general
Best practices
Mix of small and whole group
discussions
Students perspectives
Good balance!
Genuine interest in us; enthusiasm
Hmm/Boo!!!
Can we mix groups more often?
Can we move more?
Can we have a day-to-day outline of
what we will be doing each day?
How do I design a good 1 page
syllabus?
How do I incorporate clickers or
smartphones?
No matter what, privilege and bias still
exist
Have limited
comprehension when they
do read academic texts
Are not held accountable for
much reading
Expend a lot of energy
covering up what they dont
understand
Michael Wesch
World on fire
Whatever
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Strategic Literacy Initiative (SLI )
A professional development and research
organization focusing on improving
academic literacy in diverse populations of
adolescents and post-secondary students
using Reading Apprenticeship, a researchbased instructional framework.
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Reading Apprenticeship
A partnership of expertise between the
teacher and students, drawing on what
content area teachers know and do as
skilled discipline-based readers and on
learners unique and often underestimated
strengths
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Think Aloud
Helps students to notice and say when they are confused,
and use each other as resources for making meaning
Helps you to practice making your thinking visible, so you
can model effective ways of reading texts in your
discipline for students
Helps to give names to the cognitive strategies that we use
to comprehend text
Helps to notice text structures and how we navigate
various genres to build confidence, range, and stamina
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