NCTE offers consultants and services on adolescent literacy instruction that supports teacher effectiveness and improves student achievement. NCTE's extended learning opportunities include the Adolescent Literacy Pathways Program, Web Seminars and adolescent literacy books for study groups.
Consultants are available to present one-day or multi-day presentations or provide year-round consulting. All workshops and presentations can be customized to meet your specific needs.
Content Area Literacy: Reading for Meaning
(Grades 3-12)
Consultant: Peggy Albers
In this single or multiple-day workshop, teachers will understand how the reading process works, and how learners make sense of content materials. Teachers will learn the significance of understanding text structures within content materials and reader stances, and how to use these structures and stances to support students’ writing.
Content Literacy Strategies that Work
Consultant: Douglas Fisher
Audience: content teachers in middle and high school, administrators
At the end of this session, participants will be able to: Understand the use and advantages of content literacy strategies; Describe a decision-making process for identifying and implementing a school-wide literacy approach; identify the components of a professional development plan to foster teacher proficiency and collegial coaching; Link schoolwide approaches to a systematic accountability design; Complete a planning tool for establishing and implementing a school-wide literacy program for their school site.
Popular Culture and Literacy Development
Consultant: Korina Jocson
Audience: Grades K-5 and 6-12 teachers, teacher educators, literacy coaches
Focus: Integrating popular culture into English language arts
This workshop will provide an overview of popular culture and will examine various examples of music, film, books, magazines, and other popular cultural texts relevant in the lives of young people. Participants will consider current trends in popular culture as one means to innovate practice, motivate reluctant readers/writers, and address the literacy achievement gap. Participants will have an opportunity to interpret texts, work in small groups, and apply ideas particular to their own contexts.
Updating the Standards: Bridging the Gaps
Consultant: William Kist
Drawing from his real-world work with districts across the country and the most up-to-date research on college readiness, Dr. Kist can facilitate your curriculum and instruction transition into the 21st century. A process of revision that works from models provided by the Partnership for 21st Century Skills and the ACT College Readiness Standards will be followed and embedded with many “real world” examples of multi-modal assignments and assessments.
Making Learning Happen—Interactive Classroom
This Jeffrey N. Golub workshop is designed for those who want to change the way they (and their students) use English. Improve students' performance with language by focusing on the constructing, negotiating, and communicating of meanings.
Making Reading Happen
This Jeffrey N. Golub workshop is designed to be insightful, challenging, engaging, worthwhile, and fun. In the first part, the presenter describes and demonstrates the concept of "making the invisible visible," and then, through a series of examples and activities, makes the various reading skills "visible" to the participants.
Making Learning Happen—Developing Students' Speaking and Listening Skills
Consultant: Jeffrey N. Golub
A teacher is a manager of a communication environment. And this is the workshop that will identify the characteristics of that environment and offer insights, information, and instructional strategies designed to help the teacher be an effective "communication manager."
Motivating the Unmotivated Adolescent Reader
Consultant: William Kist
Audiences: Teachers (Grades 5-Adult), Administrators, Literacy Coaches
In a single-day or multiple-day workshop, teachers will read about and discuss trends and strategies used in adolescent literacy education. A key component of the workshop will be strategies to motivate struggling readers, both those “a-literates” who just don’t like to read and those who struggling with decoding and comprehension.
Teaching the Classics in the Inclusive Classrooms
Consultant: Katherine McKnight Audience: Grade Level: 6-12
This presentation is based on the material in Teaching the Lliterature Classics in the Inclusive Classroom, grades 6-12, Jossey Bass. The classics are not too difficult for our students to read, understand, and appreciate when the appropriate teaching strategies were used. This book contains discussion, teaching ideas, and full lessons that were developed by the presenter who has experience teaching in diverse middle and secondary high school classrooms.
Active Literacy Learning Requires Active Teaching
Consultant: Katherine McKnight Audience: Grade Level: 4-12
The current model for teaching and learning promotes the ideas and notions that classrooms should be interactive where learning activities are a result of the partnership between the classroom teacher and the students. Students have a voice in their learning and are encouraged to be active participants in the classroom.
Content Area Literacy Strategies
Consultant: Katherine McKnight Audience: Grade Level: 6-12
This workshop will explore the theory and practice involved in teaching content reading at the middle and secondary school level. It focuses on the literacy processes, which involves listening, speaking, reading, and writing. In addition, building on general knowledge of teaching literacy in middle and secondary schools, this workshop provides exploration of the methods of teaching reading and writing within the content areas.
Integrating the Arts into the Literacy Curriculum
Consultant: Katherine McKnight Audience: Grade Level: 6-12
This presentation is based on the book, The Second City Guide to Improvisation for the Classroom, Grades K-8. This workshop explores the importance and instructional value of the integration of the arts: dance, drama, music, and visual art in the adolescent literacy curriculum. This presentation will briefly draw on recent brain research and other sources to show evidence that the arts are a vital teaching tool that significantly impacts literacy learning in a traditional educational setting.