One of my responsibilities as Academic Coach is to model lessons. So this year, once a month in a weekly content area meeting, I plan to model one of the literacy strategies as outlined in the book Power Tools for Adolescent Learners. Teachers will then be responsible for incorporating this strategy in their classroom and then completing a reflections sheet on what they liked/disliked about the strategy and sharing this with their colleagues at our weekly content area meeting.
I had the opportunity to observe one of these literacy strategies being used by a colleague in a world geography class. It was amazing to see how eighth graders could get so engrossed in a picture book.
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Instructional Teams (8 teachers & their principal) from 12 Virginia middle schools are using Power Tools literacy strategies in their core content areas.
The Power Tools for Adolescent Literacy blog allows teachers to share and showcase what they are doing in their classrooms, offers a forum for questions, provides an opportunity for school administrators to share the progression of change as teachers implement the strategies, and lets viewers read posts of how teachers are working to effectively use Power Tools strategies they learned at the workshop.
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Instructional Teams (8 teachers & their principal) from 12 Virginia middle schools are using Power Tools literacy strategies in their core content areas.
Thanks for sharing what you are doing---sounds like a great plan to promote collegial sharing.
ReplyDeleteWhat was the picture book and the strategy used?