You’re a high-functioning team looking to sustain your expertise, leadership, and achievement for literacy.
Implementing Authentic Literacy Practices in Secondary ELA Classrooms
Reinvigorate literacy teaching and learning in secondary ELA classrooms by implementing authentic reading and writing practices. Empower teachers, students, and administrators to use these ideas, strategies, and tools to leverage the interest and motivation of individual students, transforming literacy learning experiences while moving beyond traditional ELA practices.
Analyze current literacy research and implications.
Examine and project an action plan for building teacher expertise around authentic literacy.
• Examine the ways maker education and project-based learning (PBL) can enhance teaching and empower student engagement and learning.
• Learn how to reimagine instruction to ensure students build crucial literacy, collaboration, and thinking skills.
• Become familiar with various low-tech and low-cost strategies and how to utilize them in flexible learning spaces in the classroom or school.
• Engage with checklists and planning tools for incorporating a maker education curriculum in your classroom.