Workshops
Teaching and Learning Alliance can support professional learning for administrators and teachers through engaging, customized workshops in the following ways:
Workshop topics range from targeted instructional techniques to broad philosophies of teaching and learning. Possible topics include:
- Bringing teachers and school leaders together for rich explorations of content or pedagogical knowledge
- Focusing on targeted topics, such as close reading of complex text, to broad investigations, such as implementation of Readers' Workshop or Response to Intervention (RTI)
- Tailoring professional learning to meet the needs of school/district faculty and student populations
Workshop topics range from targeted instructional techniques to broad philosophies of teaching and learning. Possible topics include:
- Implement the core components of balanced literacy (Readers’ Workshop, Writers’ Workshop, Phonics/Word Study, Read-Aloud)
- Design and deliver powerful mini-lessons
- Teach reading and writing strategies through explicit demonstration and think-aloud
- Model and teach accountable talk to help students express their thinking through meaningful conversation
- Differentiate instruction in all curriculum areas
- Administer, score, and analyze diagnostic assessments
- Use informal assessments to plan differentiated instruction
- Plan and teach guided reading lessons
- Align district curriculum with Common Core State Standards (CCSS)
- Integrate standards-based teaching with developmental, student-centered approaches
- Collaborate and learn more effectively with colleagues
- Organize classroom libraries and other instructional materials
- Choose and use high-quality literature, as well as leveled books, to improve reading instruction
- Make thinking visible (their own thinking as well as their students’)
- Confer with students to assess and teach 1:1
- Ask open-ended, thought-provoking questions
- Manage time, space, and materials
- Connect literacy strategies to science, social studies, and math
- Differentiate instruction for ELL students and students with special needs
- Develop units of study in reading and writing, aligned to common core standards
