518+Agenda+-+1.14.15


 * Guiding Questions:**
 * What does it mean to be literate in 2015? What is my role in supporting literacy as a content teacher?

8:00 - 8:20 - Introductions
 * Notetaker: user:hharper12!
 * What do you read?
 * Newspapers, online news, novels, scientific articles, historical nonfiction, math texts, math articles, "fun" magazines, menus, street signs, advertisements, romance novels, foreign movies, random articles, short stories, classic books, spiritual/religious texts, recipes, high school textbooks, tabloids, student writing, poetry
 * Informal surveys
 * Fiction/nonfiction: majority nonfiction
 * Online/offline: split fairly evenly
 * Mandated/voluntary: majority voluntary
 * What do you write?
 * Texts, emails, comments on internet sources, math articles, math correspondence, letters to friends, papers for school, notes, lists, online posts, lesson plans, short stories, short essays, student feedback, notes, journaling
 * Informal surveys
 * Fiction/nonfiction: Majority nonfiction
 * Online/offline: Majority offline
 * Mandated/voluntary: Majority mandated
 * Purpose of the class: to facilitate __authentic__ student engagement with powerful ideas, not just learning strategies for the sake of having strategies

8:20 - 8:40 - Course Intro
 * Main goals and themes
 * Supporting students in their reading to learn rather than learning to read
 * Crash course ELL
 * Academic reading, writing, discussion
 * edTPA components: Task 2 and academic language pieces
 * Major assignments
 * Sign up for "text talk"
 * Task 2 (__not the heart of the class__)
 * Scaled down version of Task 2 to familiarize us with Task 2 (videotaping self and analyzing in light of our central focus)
 * Lesson we videotape may not be ideal, but we will be given the opportunity to describe why it is not ideal and what would need to changed
 * Do not spend as much time on this we would on the real thing
 * Permission slips: Ask CT about district-wide video permission slips, who cannot be videotaped
 * Wiki
 * Core practices
 * Snacks?

8:40 - 9:30 - What does it mean to be literate in 2015? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQHX-SjgQvQ
 * http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2015/01/12/376717870/bored-and-brilliant-a-challenge-to-disconnect-from-your-phone
 * Boredom promotes creativity.
 * http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/serious-reading-takes-a-hit-from-online-scanning-and-skimming-researchers-say/2014/04/06/088028d2-b5d2-11e3-b899-20667de76985_story.html
 * This, the idea that serious reading suffers at the hands of online quick reading, may not just be an online phenomenon; the disconnect between texts exists in print (Little Women does not provide the same instant gratification that Harry Potter does).
 * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xO_oEGHWSMU & https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YNeyBANrTI
 * Multitasking is actually a myth, doing more than one thing at a time decreases performance in both tasks.
 * http://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/subject/publications/main2013/pdf/2014087.pdf
 * No one cares about the nation's report card: what does this say about what school cares about versus what we, and the general public, care about?
 * http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/learning_deeply/2015/01/why_doing_school_undermines_learning.html
 * School teaches students how to be good students rather than actually learning.
 * http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2015/01/10/if-we-stop-telling-kids-what-to-read-they-might-start-reading-again/
 * 15% of students aged 15-17 are voluntarily reading
 * Research indicates if students are given time to read what they want during the school day, they are more likely to be readers.

How is literacy being intentionally supported in your school/classroom?

9:30 - 9:40 - Break
 * Free writing
 * Strategies
 * Taking the time to swim in big ideas
 * Choice in reading
 * Choice in writing (writing your own question/prompt)

9:40 - 10:10 - Discuss Zwiers, chapter 1
 * “We must modify our expectations of language use in school and the way we teach, test, and accept student versions of language.”
 * “We should teach academic language intentionally, knowing that students need to use the language of school to succeed later on.”

10:10 - 10:35 - AL experience
 * [|Discourse Analysis]
 * [|SOAP Notes]
 * [|Business Plan]

10:35 - 10:50 - Housekeeping/Upcoming assignments