Course Description | You are invited to participate in a book study! I will be conducting a book study on the book Reading with Meaning by Debbie Miller every Wednesday from 3:30-4:30 in the conference room from October 1-November 19. This book study has been approved through the ROE. If you attend all 8 meetings or can make up the meeting you need to miss, you will earn 8 CPDU’s. The following excerpt is from the book:
“Through explicit instruction, modeling, classroom discussion, and most important, by gradually releasing responsibility to her students, Debbie provides a model for creating a climate and culture of thinking and learning. Here you will learn:
• techniques for modeling thinking;
• specific examples of modeled strategies for inferring, asking questions, making connections, determining importance in text, creating mental images, and synthesizing information;
• how to help children make their thinking visible through oral, written, artistic, and dramatic responses to literature;
• how to successfully develop book clubs as a way for children to share their thinking.”
Please register by the end of the day Monday, September 15. The only cost to you will be for the book which will cost approximately $20.00. |