RADICAL LISTENING: INDIVIDUAL READING AND WRITING CONFERENCES, EQUITY AND IDENTITY
Workshop Details
WHEN: Saturday, 27 January 2024 & Sunday, 28 January 2024 (8:00am - 3:30pm)
WHERE: ISKL Ampang Hilir Campus (MPR2/3)
FEES: USD250 (For non ISKL, please sign up below)
For ISKL Faculty only (please sign up on the PD Google Calendar)
FOCUS: Grades 2 - 8 Teachers, Literacy Coaches REGISTRATION DEADLINE: 19th JANUARY 2024
TRAINER: Daniel Feigelson
REFUNDS:
Full Refund: A full refund of all registration fees paid will be granted, if requested in writing before 12 January 2024.
Partial Refund: A 75% refund of all registration fees paid will be granted, less a RM50 refund processing fee, if requested in writing after 12 January 2024 but before 27 January 2024.
No Refund: No refund will be granted for any cancellation request made after 27 January 2024.
To begin the cancellation process, please email us at professionallearning@iskl.edu.my
Workshop Overview
Individual conferences are the most powerful teaching we do with young readers and writers. These 1:1 meetings with children are not just our best opportunity to target literacy instruction to their particular strengths and needs, but also to honor individual student identity. By inquiring into their thinking and tailoring instruction to their unique noticings, understandings, and experiences, we empower children to become independent reading and writing problem solvers - and send a powerful message about equity and inclusion.
Though there are separate books and resources about both reading and writing conferences, they are rarely talked about in the same conversation - yet most teachers who are doing one are also doing the other, with the same group of students. Lucy Calkins has famously said we should teach children to “read like writers and write like readers.” Individual conferences are perhaps the best place to help students understand these connections and make links between their reading and their writing. Moreover, they are a powerful way to teach students “to shape their own ideas through acts of literacy” (Muhammad 2020).
In this two-day, in person institute, Dan will offer a practical, step-wise, student-centered approach to reading and writing conferences that teachers can bring to their classrooms tomorrow – and offer concrete tips on how to connect the two.
Learning Outcomes
By the end of the workshop, participants will:
learn a concrete, practical, step-wise approach to conferring in both reading and writing;
be provided with strategies for formative assessment in literacy;
be trained in principles of listening that honor individual student identity;
develop a repertoire of “go-to” conferences in reading and writing;
generate concrete, classroom-ready organizational systems for keeping track of student work in conferences;
leave with practical tips for helping students make reading-writing connections through conferring.
Dan Feigelson
Dan Feigelson is a national and international literacy consultant who has traveled the globe leading institutes, workshops, and lab-sites on the teaching of reading and writing. An early member of the Teachers College Reading and Writing Project, he worked for decades in New York City public schools as a teacher, staff developer, curriculum writer, principal, and local superintendent. A regular presenter and keynote speaker at national and international conferences, Dan is the author of Radical Listening: Reading and Writing Conferences to Reach All Students (Scholastic); Reading Projects Reimagined: Student-Driven Conferences to Deepen Critical Thinking (Heinemann); and Practical Punctuation: Lessons in Rule Making and Rule Breaking in Elementary Writing (Heinemann). Aside from his work with teachers, children, and schools, Dan is passionate about jazz and gardening. He lives in New York City and the Hudson Valley.