NCTE offers consultants and services on early liteacy instruction that when used together, provide extended learning opportunities for teachers and makes a positive impact on learning. These opportunities include the Pathways Program, Web Seminars and early 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.
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Becoming Critical Literacy Educators or What’s Critical in Critical Conversations?
Consultant: Peggy Albers
In this workshop, teachers are introduced to critical literacy and its significance in English language arts curriculum. Through participatory demonstrations, teachers will learn to read a range of texts critically, from language-, art-, film-, music-, to drama-based texts.
Inquiry-based Learning and Curriculum Planning
Consultant: Diane Parker
What is inquiry? What does it look like in the classroom, and why is it especially important in today’s educational climate of one-size-fits-all instruction? How can we provide meaningful, integrated learning experiences based on students’ questions and authentic classroom events? Diane will work with teachers to examine the curriculum currently in place at their schools and to explore the use of a practical yet non-prescriptive framework for planning and teaching even mandated content through an approach that is open-ended and inquiry-based yet still accountable to required standards and programs.
Constructing Classrooms to Support Young Readers and Writers
Consultant: Susi Long
Audiences: PreK, kindergarten (and their teaching assistants), first–third grade teachers, and administrators.
In these workshops, Susi works with teachers and administrators to envision classroom structures and strategies that build on what we know about young children as readers and writers.
Where’s the Phonics (and other stuff people always ask you)?: Understanding and Articulating Children’s Learning Within Semantically-Rich Classrooms
Consultant: Susi Long
Audiences: Classroom teachers, teaching assistants, and administrators in schools that serve children in preK, kindergarten through third grade classrooms.
This workshop engages teachers and administrators directly in practices that support children as thoughtful literacy users and learners while demonstrating how specific skills and strategies are learned in the context of those experiences.
Developing Readers that READ: Critical Reading Strategies for All Readers
Consultant: Katie Van Sluys
You’re invited to work with Katie Van Sluys in a day-long workshop to pursue issues and strategies to help all students’ in becoming critical readers who use reading in their everyday lives for pleasure, problem solving, and action. Together we will use rich and relevant literature to explore a range of reading strategies and practices to further develop the reading repertoire of readers in your classroom(s) so that our students not only can read but do read.