Meeting Pattern
The NDSU cost for graduate credit professional development is $100. But, participants are also personally responsible for registration and the fees associated with Shifting the Balance: The Online Class. Register for the online class first @ TheSixShifts.com.
The Online Class also includes 2 live virtual Q&A sessions {6:00 - 7:00 p.m.} CST
- February 7 & 28, 2024
Description
If you are a teacher, coach, interventionist, or school leader who wants to make sure literacy practices make it easier, not harder, for children to learn to read, this course is for you. This course is offered by Jan Burkins & Kari Yates, based on their newest book (co-authored with Katie Egan Cunningham), Shifting the Balance: 6 Ways to Bring the Science of Reading into the Upper Elementary Classroom. In this course, you'll be invited to take an honest second look at current literacy practices, bravely considering the question, “What needs to shift?” Jan Kari will unpack the why and the how behind six critical shifts for literacy instruction in the intermediate grades, aligning current practices with brain science. You will leave with practical and powerful instructional moves you can make starting immediately. If you’re ready to learn, reflect, and have some fun along the way, then this class is for you.
The course content is hosted on Teachable, an online learning platform.
Syllabus, Objectives, and Outcomes
OBJECTIVES:
Participants will be able to:
- Explain various models of reading development, including Simple View of Reading (Gough and Tumner, 1986; Hoover & Gough, 1990), Scarborough’s Reading Rope (Scarborough, 2001), and the Active View of Reading (Duke and Cartwright, 2021)
- Plan for intentional knowledge building that connects content area topics and language arts instruction.
- Build text sets or collections of texts that connect to a specific knowledge-building outcome but represent a variety of levels of difficulty, complexity, genres, and structures.
- Leverage read-aloud as an opportunity to expand oral language and build knowledge in intentional ways.
- Consider the Strategic Six Thinking Moves as a basis for strategy instruction that draws on evidence-based practices.
- Design vocabulary instruction that draws on a variety of instructional methods, including both implicit and explicit instruction.
- Implement structured plans for explicit vocabulary instruction and intentional morphology instruction that effectively draw on phonology, meaning, context, and orthography.
- Critically assess a scope and sequence for word -learning across the grades and stages of reading development.
- Apply brain-friendly word- learning principles to maximize opportunities for orthographic mapping.
- Support fluency development by drawing on a variety of resources and methods, including choral reading, repeated reading, self-recording, self-evaluation, etc.
- Critically evaluate independent practice opportunities in the language art classroom.
- Empower students to become more self-directed through book choice, pursuit of topics for building personal expertise, partner and small group learning structures, and goal setting.
- Implement and/or refine research-based teaching structures, including intentional knowledge building, revised strategy instruction, vocabulary development, fluency instructional formats, responsive lesson design, and responsive teaching moves.
- Design a personalized implementation plan to ensure the course concepts are carried forward into the coming academic year.
REQUIRED TEXT:
Shifting the Balance: 6 Ways to Bring the Science of Reading into the Upper Elementary Classroom (Stenhouse Publishing, 2023).
All other materials will be disseminated electronically. Access to the internet is critical.
The NDSU cost for graduate credit and professional development is $100. But, participants are also personally responsible for registration and the fees associated with Shifting the Balance: The Online Class. Register for the online class first @ TheSixShifts.com.
Click the REGISTER button below to register and pay the $100 fee for NDSU professional development credit. The online registration URL closes @ 5:00 p.m. on February 5, 2024. You will receive an electronic email after you have successfully registered.
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