As a former middle school teacher and current university faculty member, Laurie maintains her connection to teachers in the classroom and works hard not to lose site of the realities of teaching and learning in a day-to-day basis. She strives to assist preservice and in-service teachers in understanding the value of teaching reading and writing across the curriculum as an integrated approach and not as a separate subject that occurs in isolation away from other content area classes. Laurie also emphasizes the importance of celebrating diversity and creating a classroom environment that is culturally responsive to all of the members of the learning community within the classroom that reflects a global perspective for teaching and learning. She also supports collaborative, problem-based learning environments with critical thinking skills at the core. This type of environment can be easily obtained through a workshop approach to teaching literacy, which is the basis of a constructivist paradigm that she strongly advocates for at the middle school level.
View Laurie Henry's Resume/Vita, Publications and Workshops.
Level: 6-8
- 21st Century Literacies/New Literacies
- Writer's Workshops
- Critical Literacy
- Standards-based Curriculum Alignment
(March, 2008). Internet-based reading and writing in the middle school classroom. Professional development session provided to middle school teachers. Lexington, Kentucky.
(October, 2007). Integrating the new literacies of technology into K-5 classroom instruction. Professional development session provided to elementary level classroom teachers. Lexington, Kentucky.
(April, 2006). Exploration of ReadWriteThink: Integrating the Internet in classroom
instruction. Professional development session provided to Instructional Leadership
Council (consisting of school administrators and curriculum development personnel).
Somers, Connecticut.
(November, 2005). Exploration of ReadWriteThink: Integrating the Internet in
classroom instruction. Professional development session provided to middle and high
school teachers. Rocky Hill, Connecticut.
(November, 2005). Preventing plagiarism with the Internet. Professional
development session provided to middle and high school teachers. Rocky Hill,
Connecticut.
(April, 2005). Integrating the new literacies of the Internet into your classroom.
Professional development session provided to elementary and middle school teachers.
Eastford, Connecticut.
(March, 2005). Preventing plagiarism with the Internet. Professional development
session provided to middle school teachers. Regional School District 10, Connecticut.
(March, 2005). Exploration of lesson resources on the Internet. Professional
development session provided to elementary school teachers. Bozrah, Connecticut.
(January, 2005). Tasks that avoid plagiarism from the Internet. Professional
development session provided to high school teachers. Regional School District 10,
Connecticut.