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| Often teachers may have rigid expectations for how small group instruction is supposed to be planned and how it ‘should’ look and sound, when in fact, small group instruction has so many variations and possibilities. In this four-part series, Kathy Collins will take participants on a tour of small group instruction models which will enable teachers to be nimble and flexible as they plan instruction to support the readers in their classrooms. Kathy and participants will plan different series of small group instruction sessions that will serve as templates and mentor texts for teachers to customize for their own readers. Some concepts that will be covered throughout the four sessions:
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| Educators for Grade 1 - 8 | |||||||||
| Kathy Collins | |||||||||
| Kathy Collins works in schools and presents in conferences all over the world to support teachers in developing high-quality, effective literacy instruction in early childhood settings through middle school grades. She is the co-author, along with Janine Bempechat of Not This But That: No More Mindless Homework (Heinemann, 2017). She co-authored, with Matt Glover, I Am Reading: Nurture Meaning - Making and Joyful Engagement with Texts (Heinemann, 2015). Kathy's other books include Reading for Real: Teach Children to Read With Power, Intention, and Joy in K-3 Classrooms (Stenhouse, 2008) and Growing Readers: Units of Study in Primary Classrooms (Stenhouse, 2004). Kathy has worked closely with the Teachers College Reading and Writing Project at Columbia University, and she taught in Brooklyn, New York. Kathy and her family live in Durham, New Hampshire. Follow Kathy on Twitter @kathycollins15 | |||||||||
| DATES & TIMES: Each Session is for 2 Hours. 6th, 13th, 20th, 27th March 2021 London 8:00 am | Dubai 12:00 pm | India 1:30 pm | Hong Kong 4:00 pm | Melbourne 7:00 pm |
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