Are you interested in increasing your students' ability to access challenging science concepts and critical science texts?
WestEd's Reading Apprenticeship® Science Institute www.wested.org/cs/sli/view/serv/127 provides professional development for middle school and high school science teachers and teacher leaders eager to increase their ability to support students' capacity to engage with, read and understand critical science texts such as textbooks, graphs, diagrams, lab instructions, and articles.
The Reading Apprenticeship® Science Institute is all science and all literacy. The professional development model was honed in the teacher preparation aspect of NSF and IES funded studies of the impact of Reading Apprenticeship www.wested.org/cs/sli/print/docs/sli/home.htm instructional approaches on high school biology teaching and learning. The instructional strategies, literacy inquiries, case studies, and model lessons are all in science context.
The Reading Apprenticeship Science Institute is a five-day program that embeds the Reading Apprenticeship instructional framework www.wested.org/cs/sli/print/docs/sli/ra_framework.htm in a science context, including model science lessons, experimental inquiry, and science student and class case studies. The Reading Apprenticeship® Science Institute is in Oakland, California from July 7 to 11.
Participants will:
* learn about the Reading Apprenticeship framework and instructional practices that support students' science literacy improvement;
* investigate how they and others make sense of science texts in order to coach and model effective thinking and reading processes in the classroom;
* explore content units that integrate science investigation with science literacy tasks;
* learn how to support students in becoming better science readers and learners;
* explore model Reading Apprenticeship science lessons to uncover the productive interplay of science literacy and science inquiry learning;
* examine their own classroom practice to refine and improve their practice of Reading Apprenticeship;
* learn powerful instructional strategies that support science reading, writing, and thinking; and
* explore multiple examples of students' reading and of Reading Apprenticeship science classrooms in action using video case studies.
* develop specific lesson and unit plans for embedding specific powerful literacy routine in their science classes.
* be part of a network of professional colleagues from the Institute with access to an online discussion group for ongoing consultation about implementation issues.
The cost for five days of professional development, materials, five continental breakfasts, and five buffet lunches is $2,000 per person. Follow-up work on Reading Apprenticeship in Science is available through attendance at our annual Winter Conference, for an additional registration fee of $350 per person. Strategic Literacy Initiative training qualifies as "High-Quality Professional Development" for: Title I, Part A; Title II, Part A; Title III, Part A; Title V, Part A; and Title VII, Part A.
* Science Institute Application: DOC
* Science Institute Brochure: PDF
* Lodging, schedule, and travel info: DOC
Please contact Jana Bouc at jbouc@wested.org for more information.
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