posted Mar 15, 2008 7:40 PM by Bradley Vaden
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The Leadership Institute in Reading Apprenticeship is a training-of-trainers experience. It prepares school, district, or community college teams to lead professional development in Reading Apprenticeship (RA).
The institute is designed for teams of literacy leaders, including teacher leaders; staff development specialists; curriculum specialists; and trainers/supervisors of tutors, supplemental instructors, and peer mentors.
Team members should have leadership experience in literacy, subject area curriculum and instruction, or professional development.
Participation is through competitive team application with a maximum of 45 participants per session.
What You Learn
- Teams are prepared to lead implementation of the Reading Apprenticeship framework in their schools, districts, local education agencies, or school reform organizations.
- Participants acquire an in-depth understanding of Reading Apprenticeship as an instructional framework.
- Participants learn to engage students and teachers in collaborative inquiry about their varied reading processes, fostering "metacognitive conversation" in classrooms and professional learning communities.
- Teachers learn to make the complex, invisible processes they use as readers visible to students, helping them develop reading expertise in specific disciplines.
- Teachers learn to make changes in their classroom practice, building on students’ strengths as readers and learners and providing students greater access to text for learning in the content areas.
- Participants learn a powerful and adaptable approach to organizing and conducting Reading Apprenticeship professional development, including specific ideas, plans, and materials.
Dates
- Oakland/SF, CA
June 22-27, 2008 - Oakland/SF, CA
July 20-25, 2008
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