Standard of Practice # 5: Ongoing Professional Learning
Members recognize that a commitment to ongoing professional learning is integral to effective practice and to student learning. Professional practice and self-directed learning are informed by experience, research, collaboration and knowledge.
Really this entire ABQ experience has been an example of Ongoing Professional Learning, more on my future plans for OPL can be found in the Reflection page. But to demonstrate at least one significant learning experience from the course, allow me to share the Shared Reading Unit I developed as part of the course:
Self-Directed Learning & Research: Designing a Shared Reading Unit
Shared Reading: Shared reading is an instructional approach during which the teacher explicitly teaches the strategies and skills of proficient readers. Students have an opportunity to gradual assume more responsibility for the reading as their skill level and confidence increase. Shared reading provides a safe learning environment for students to practice the reading behaviours of proficient readers with the support of their teacher and peers. Shared reading may b offered to the whole class or a small group of students and may focus on the needs indicated in assessment data and required by grade level curriculum expectations. The text is always chosen by the teacher and must be visible to the students.
Members recognize that a commitment to ongoing professional learning is integral to effective practice and to student learning. Professional practice and self-directed learning are informed by experience, research, collaboration and knowledge.
Really this entire ABQ experience has been an example of Ongoing Professional Learning, more on my future plans for OPL can be found in the Reflection page. But to demonstrate at least one significant learning experience from the course, allow me to share the Shared Reading Unit I developed as part of the course:
Self-Directed Learning & Research: Designing a Shared Reading Unit
Shared Reading: Shared reading is an instructional approach during which the teacher
explicitly teaches the strategies and skills of proficient readers. Students have an opportunity
to gradual assume more responsibility for the reading as their skill level and confidence
increase. Shared reading provides a safe learning environment for students to practice
the reading behaviours of proficient readers with the support of their teacher and peers.
Shared reading may b offered to the whole class or a small group of students and may
focus on the needs indicated in assessment data and required by grade level curriculum
expectations. The text is always chosen by the teacher and must be visible to the students.
from http://eworkshop.on.ca/edu/resources/guides/Guide_Lit_456_Vol_5_Reading.pdf
If you haven't read 'Casey at the Bat' by Ernest Lawrence Thayer, then at least you've seen Walt Disney's cartoon version of this fascinating poem?
Before you open the Lesson Plan, start by viewing the 1946 Disney version here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erfSed2MUsA
Next, review the attached Lesson Plan, encompassing 5 days of literary delight!