Differentiating Instruction for Adults and Adolescents
Meaningful Engagements with Text
Make sure the assignments for the texts you love to teach include the instructional strategies that are proven to result in increased student achievement.
Leave this workshop with:
Your favourite novel, short story or film supercharged for maximum impact.
A raft of instructional strategy ideas to benefit your students in all subject areas.
Getting Beyond 'Whatever': Developing and Assessing the Young Adolescent's Oral Language Skills
Are you wondering how to get adolescents discussing ideas, learning new words, speaking in full sentences?
Leave this workshop with
Practical, manageable, engaging strategies and activities to develop oral language skills in a variety of subjects.
Knowing how to assess this often neglected, but fundamental, component of the report card.
Explicit Strategy Instruction
This session provides an introduction to effective before, during and after literacy strategies for all adolescents in all subject areas.
Leave this workshop with:
An understanding of key principles of adolescent literacy
A glossary of literacy terms and strategies and how to use them in your classroom
A template for explicit instruction and the gradual release of responsibility for any literacy strategy
