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Overview: |
While teachers must of course cover end-year expectations in reading for their particular grade, it is also important to teach students to come up with ideas about what they read independently - and how to back up these ideas with evidence. One way to accomplish this is through project-based reading conferences, where students learn to recognize, name, and extend their own lines of thinking.
In this interactive workshop, teachers will learn a practical, step-by-step approach to conducting individual reading conferences – including strategies for conferring virtually - that help students become engaged, independent comprehension decision makers. |
Learning Objectives |
SESSION 1 - Conferring Competencies
- Why confer?
- The content of comprehension
- Principles of listening
- Structure of a reading conference
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SESSION 2 - Going Deeper
- Strategies for online and hybrid conferring
- Teaching a variety of reading responses
- Setting comprehension goals for (and with!) students
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SESSION 3 - Nuts and Bolts
- Record keeping
- Planning for conferring/time management
- Structures and strategies for sharing conferring work, online and in person
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SESSION 4 - Balancing Conferences and Other Instruction
- Making reading and writing connections
- Scaffolding conferring work through partnerships, book clubs, and read aloud conversations
- Conferring around informational text
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Potential Audience |
Classroom teachers of grades 2-8, literacy coaches, reading and language arts specialists, curriculum coordinators and administrators. |
DAN FEIGELSON |
Dan Feigelson is an international literacy consultant who works with teachers on deepening their reading and writing instruction. After many years in New York City schools as a teacher, staff developer, curriculum writer, principal, and local superintendent, he now leads institutes, workshops and lab-sites around the world. An early member of the Teachers College Reading and Writing Project, Dan is a regular presenter at national and international conferences, and is the author of Reading Projects Reimagined: Student-Driven Conferences to Deepen Critical Thinking, and Practical Punctuation: Lessons in Rule Making and Rule Breaking in Elementary Writing. He lives in New York City and Columbia County, New York. |
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DATES & TIMES:
9th, 23rd, 30th October & 6th November 2021
Each Session is for 2 Hours
EST 5:00 am | London 10:00 am | Zurich 11:00 am | Dubai 1:00 pm | India 2:30 pm | Hong Kong 5:00 pm
Melbourne 8:00 pm
Please click here to check your time for the workshop |
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INVESTMENT |
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USD 400 per participant
USD 350 per participant for a group of 4
USD 300 per participant for a group of 8 or more. |
INCLUDES: Certificate of Participation for 10 Professional Development Hours. |
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Upcoming Workshops |
Invitations, Opportunities, and Instruction That Support Young Children to Make Meaning, Expand Oral Language, and Engage Joyfully with Books and Any Other Texts (Pre-K -1st Grade) |
- By Kathy Collins |
30th October, 6th, 13th, 20th November 2021 |
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