ANNOUNCEMENTS

1)   This week you will find the checklist at the bottom of the blog.
2)   Due this Saturday:  Read the assigned chapter in Beers.  Create a summary chart/paragraph.  Post it on  
         the D2L-Discusion-Chapter Share site.
3)   This is our final on-line blog
4)    Next week (Saturday, December 8) is our last face-to-face class
5)    Final case study presentations due: Saturday, December 8 (see assignment guidelines packet for
          guidelines, rubric and feedback sheet.
7)    Presentation order:
       1:10      Anna Jean Johnson
       1:25      Emily Vondriska
       1:40      Michelle Kelley
       2:00      Julie Schulz
       2:15      Marie Anderson Smoklinski
       2:30      Sara Pumper
       2:45      Heidi Sirek
       3:00      Mindy Schupp
       3:15      Paula Johnson
       3:30      Kim Thompson (possible video)
       3:45      Beth Keehr (possible video)

The following people will video tape their presentation and post online.

         *         Cadi O'Connell
         *        Theresa Davenport
         *         Michelle Swanson
         *        Kate Maki
         *        Erin McDonnell

8)     You are free to turn in your final case study binder to me Saturday, December 8 without your final
         portfolio reflection.
9)     Portfolio reflection and final case study binder is due: Saturday, December 15.
10)   If you choose to turn your final case study binder into me on Saturday, December 8 you just need to
         email your final portfolio reflection to me on or before December 15.

As always,  please let me know if you have any questions.

See you on the 8th.

WELCOME!

Welcome! This week I invite you to try-on the role of a literacy coach using all that we explored this semester. This week I am asking you to look at teaching and literacy together and analyze them as if you were a literacy coach. As teachers and literacy coach experts we wear many hats. The hats that I am inviting you to try-on are: 1)Teacher as evaluation experts, detecting patterns in learning. 2) Teacher as teaching experts and 3) Evaluation that serves instruction and empowers the learner. The first portion of the semester we looked at multiple assessment tools (interview, surveys, writing, a Developmental Continuum and miscue analysis). We then transitioned to using the information we learned from our multiple data sources to determine the appropriate strategies needed to empower learning. This week I asked you to read a chapter from Beers book and create a summary/chart to share with your peers. I have also asked you to investigate different strategies that you could use to move your case study child forward using the Phinney/Ward book (3-ring binder). This is all ways to link assessment to practice. We will continue to link assessment with instruction, but this week it will be from the point of view of a literacy coach. Below you will find a video (Katie Bannon's Lesson) to practice critically analyzing teaching and learning. Next, you will find a video power point from me. Here I explore the characteristics of effective literacy coaching. Finally, I ask you to view a video of a teacher teaching a mini-lesson on comprehension. While viewing this video I am asking you to put on your literacy coach hat and provide some feedback/coaching to this teacher. If you have any questions, please just let me know.

Expert Analysis of Teaching

Within this post you will find a video I would like you to watch.  This is a video of Katie Bannon's Lesson.  Woven in the video is an analysis of her teaching.  I would like you to watch this video and begin to consider a new role you might have as a reading specialist.  As a reading specialist you will need to become an expert analysis of teaching.  I have provided this video to guide you in this process. What I would like you to do is to:

1)      Critically watch/observe the teaching in the video.
2)       Notice what the "experts" are saying.
3)      Jot down notes on comments, suggestions, and thoughts you have in relation to the teaching AND the       "experts".  
4)     As best you can try to imagine that you are one of the experts on the panel.  What would you add to    the conversation?  What are some things that you valued, liked, and maybe learned?  What suggestions would you give this teacher or "experts"?
5)   Keeping the above questions in mind and the notes that you jotted down while watching comment in the "comment section" directly below this post.
 
6)            Please have comments posted before class on Saturday, Dec. 8

Literacy Coaching

After viewing the Katie Bannon's Lesson: Expert Analysis (above), please watch/listen to the power point video below.  In this power point I invite you to take all that we learned in this class about assessment and linking assessment to empower learning to a literacy coaching role. In this power point I will give you the directions needed to complete the assignment due December 8 before class.  If you have any questions please just ask.

Rick's Reading Workshop: Mini-Lesson

After viewing the above power point video, please view this video.

CHARACTERISTICS OF EXCELLENT LITERACY COACHING

Below you will find a figure that restates the characteristics of excellent literacy coaching and links to the role of the literacy coach that I talk about in the power point video above. This is for you to print and keep if you like as well as use to guide you in your viewing of Rick's Reading Workshop: Mini-Lesson. This is just a tool for you to use as you would like.



Characteristics of Excellent Literacy Coaching

Checklist for December 8

These are the questions and topics that I ask you to address in your write up after viewing Rick's Reading Workshop: Mini-Lesson. I have also placed this document in D2L-Content- Literacy Coach. This is just to help guide your response and write-up.


Checklist Dec. 8 During and After Viewing Rick