ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS
RESOURCES
I have been finding so many resources lately and have been trying to add them to my Portaportal in an organized fashion. Please look under the ELA file as well as the Common Core file for links to helpful sites on everything from lessons, examples of assessments, strategies, and blogs to keep us thinking.
WORKSHOP IN MIDDLE SCHOOL AND HIGH SCHOOL
The Common Core is asking us to shift not only the focus of our content but also the way we deliver our content. It is demanding even more collaboration, deeper thinking, greater independence, and broader understanding by our students. One of the ways to accomplish these shifts is to use a workshop format in our teaching. Many elementary teachers are used to using reader's and writer's workshop in their daily classrooms, but most middle school and high school teachers aren't currently utilizing this "best practice". What does it even look like in middle school and high school? How is it different from what I am currently doing? In response to these (and many more!) questions, I have developed a professional development session called READER'S AND WRITER'S WORKSHOP 6-12. I am planning to present this day-long session in another ISD in April. If you are interested in having me schedule it for COOR, please email me ([email protected]) to let me know you would like me to pursue it. I had a lot of fun researching the latest information about this practice for older students and would love to share it with all of you.
I have been finding so many resources lately and have been trying to add them to my Portaportal in an organized fashion. Please look under the ELA file as well as the Common Core file for links to helpful sites on everything from lessons, examples of assessments, strategies, and blogs to keep us thinking.
WORKSHOP IN MIDDLE SCHOOL AND HIGH SCHOOL
The Common Core is asking us to shift not only the focus of our content but also the way we deliver our content. It is demanding even more collaboration, deeper thinking, greater independence, and broader understanding by our students. One of the ways to accomplish these shifts is to use a workshop format in our teaching. Many elementary teachers are used to using reader's and writer's workshop in their daily classrooms, but most middle school and high school teachers aren't currently utilizing this "best practice". What does it even look like in middle school and high school? How is it different from what I am currently doing? In response to these (and many more!) questions, I have developed a professional development session called READER'S AND WRITER'S WORKSHOP 6-12. I am planning to present this day-long session in another ISD in April. If you are interested in having me schedule it for COOR, please email me ([email protected]) to let me know you would like me to pursue it. I had a lot of fun researching the latest information about this practice for older students and would love to share it with all of you.