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Literacy Updates:
- March 22, 2013
Facilitator's Guide for the Adolescent Literacy Guide
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A facilitator’s guide is now available to support professional learning using the Adolescent Literacy Guide.
Click on < Adolescent Literacy / Additional Resources > in the left menu.
- March 19, 2013
Adolescent Literacy: Engaging Research and Teaching (ALERT)
- A new ALERT is now posted that focuses on enabling students to pose and pursue their own questions.
- A new ALERT is now posted that focuses on enabling students to pose and pursue their own questions.
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Make Room for… Students to Pose and Pursue Questions This ALERT focuses on enabling students to pose and pursue their own questions, which helps them to become self-directed, reflective learners. |
- December 4, 2012
Adolescent Literacy: Engaging Research and Teaching (ALERT)
- ALERTs are information articles that provide practical ideas for grades 7 to 12 literacy instruction. There are two ALERTS now posted.
- ALERTs are information articles that provide practical ideas for grades 7 to 12 literacy instruction. There are two ALERTS now posted.
- November 20, 2012
Adolescent Literacy
The Adolescent Literacy Guide: A Professional Learning Resource for Literacy, Grades 7-12 is now available. The guide provides information on critical areas related to adolescent literacy and outlines a framework which may be used for long-term planning to support literacy learning in grades 7 to 12. Available also is a range of adolescent literacy resources to support teachers, professional learning facilitators, and school and system leaders.
Click on the <Adolescent Literacy> in the left menu.
- October 10, 2012
Adolescent Literacy Adobe Connect Series: “Supporting Dialogue that Moves Thinking Forward”
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Making Room for… Talking to Learn Necessary for Some… How to Help Students Who Struggle with Reading |
- You are invited to attend a one-hour Adobe Connect webinar designed to build on the theme from this year’s Literacy GAINS Summer Camp ‘Supporting Dialogue that Moves Thinking Forward’. For students to talk like scientists, historians, geographers, or artists using the language of the discipline, they must have multiple exposures to that type of language. The goals of this session are to identify elements for meaningful student interactions, generate ideas for promoting effective dialogue, and examine structures for creating an environment for talk.
Click <here> for dates, times and registration.
- July 24, 2012
Visual Arts, Grade 9 Unit: “Picturing My Imagination”
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This unit develops knowledge and skills to create a completed artwork using the stages of the creative process.
In this unit, students create a drawing of a monster and write a reflection on how they used the creative process to complete their work. Students’ progress is monitored through observation, completion of preliminary works and student responses. Students’ tracking of the creative process allows them to deliberately be metacognitive about how they work from imagination to a completed artwork. They also reflect on how they learn and contribute as a collaborator in groups.
Click on <The Arts> under Learning Materials/Subject Specific Literacy in the left menu.
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This unit develops knowledge and skills to create a completed artwork using the stages of the creative process.
- July 24, 2012
Drama, Grade 9 Unit: “Opening Doors”
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In this unit, students develop knowledge and skills to create a drama anthology using the stages of the creative process.
Writers attended particularly to the following:
- identifying learning goals, critical learning and guiding questions based on the expectations
- involving learners in developing and using criteria to meet learning goals
- using the stages of the creative process to create drama works
- using collaboration to create and refine a work
- examining perspectives in sources, and exploring how personal perspectives affect the creation or and response to drama works
- using talk, writing, experimentation and exploration to explore ideas and create works
Click on <The Arts> under Learning Materials/Subject Specific Literacy in the left menu.
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In this unit, students develop knowledge and skills to create a drama anthology using the stages of the creative process.
- July 24, 2012
Science, Grade 10 Applied Unit: “Light and Application of Optics”
- This unit builds on students’ prior learning of electricity and electrical applications and chemistry from Grade 9. Students examine technologies that use light and the impact that they have on their own lives. Students learn that light is a form of energy and they investigate the behaviour of light and the properties of colour, using inquiry. Students are actively involved in collaborative learning through the implementation of assessment for learning practices and strategies.
Click on <Science and Technology/Science> under Learning Materials/Subject Specific Literacy in the left menu.
- This unit builds on students’ prior learning of electricity and electrical applications and chemistry from Grade 9. Students examine technologies that use light and the impact that they have on their own lives. Students learn that light is a form of energy and they investigate the behaviour of light and the properties of colour, using inquiry. Students are actively involved in collaborative learning through the implementation of assessment for learning practices and strategies.
- May 16, 2012
Literacy Assessment Matters
- A self-directed professional learning module, developed by York Region District School Board, is now available along with a facilitator's guide and supporting documents for download. It features networks of literacy coaches and history, geography, English teachers from two secondary schools engaged in a collaborative inquiry cycle. With a focus on literacy learning and reading assessment, this module may be used for independent or small group professional learning.
Click on <Literacy Assessment Matters> found under Professional Learning/Self-Directed in the left menu.
- A self-directed professional learning module, developed by York Region District School Board, is now available along with a facilitator's guide and supporting documents for download. It features networks of literacy coaches and history, geography, English teachers from two secondary schools engaged in a collaborative inquiry cycle. With a focus on literacy learning and reading assessment, this module may be used for independent or small group professional learning.
- May 13, 2012
Metacognition
- New materials are now available, a print resource and a video, highlighting how metacognition contributes to successful learning, and moves students towards independence, interdependence, and self-efficacy. Explore what metacognition is, why to teach it, and how to teach it, and view some classroom examples of how teachers promote metacognitive thinking in the classroom.
Click on <Metacognition> under Adolescent Literacy in the left menu.
- New materials are now available, a print resource and a video, highlighting how metacognition contributes to successful learning, and moves students towards independence, interdependence, and self-efficacy. Explore what metacognition is, why to teach it, and how to teach it, and view some classroom examples of how teachers promote metacognitive thinking in the classroom.