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NCTE's Pathways for Advancing Adolescent Literacy
Providing Direction for Student Success Through Teacher Learning
The Challenge: Improving Secondary Students’ Reading and Writing Skills so They are Fully Prepared to Succeed in a Global Economy.
Research reveals the key to improvement: Fully prepared teachers who are committed to life-long learning and inspiring every student to succeed.
- Comprehensive, school-wide approaches that provide sustained professional development for all faculty and improve literacy skills by systematically targeting lessons and strategies to learners’ needs are still rare in US secondary schools.
- Research shows that accomplished teachers choose from an array of strategies to increase student motivation, deepen comprehension, promote clear expression, and sharpen critical thinking. Teachers need on-going support to stay abreast of trends and share findings from their classrooms with other teacher-learners.
NCTE is uniquely suited to advance teacher knowledge on Adolescent Literacy
- With more than 50,000 members, thousands who serve in literacy leadership roles in local systems, and more than 80 local and state affiliates, NCTE is positioned to provide systematic professional development in schools nationally.
- As the publisher of ten peer-reviewed journals for teachers, approximately 15 books and research monographs annually, and as co-host of the enormously popular ReadWriteThink.org website, NCTE has a tremendous archive of scholarship and planning resources to share.
- Through its annual convention and the meetings of its affiliates, NCTE is uniquely suited to offer face-to-face learning opportunities for teachers at every career stage.
- NCTE is a leader in providing online learning support for teachers, and has been a primary provider of online professional development resources and support for the South Carolina Reading Initiative and CoLEARN Writing Initiative learning communities. Its InBOX literacy education news service reaches more than 100,000 subscribers weekly.
NCTE's Pathways for Advancing Adolescent Literacy offers
- Professional development that continues beyond a single session or stategy
- Professional development that creates a professional community for teachers across the disciplines
- Professional development that connects teacher learning to student learning
Professional Development that creates a professional community for teachers across the disciplines
- Online community conversations around multiple topics of interest
- Online communities can be customized to extend to all Pathway participants, or just those in your school or district.
- Experienced teacher-volunteers are available online to serve as moderators or facilitators, to keep the discussions active and engaging.
- Local group-leaders will be offered training so that they can add planning elements, local standards, or other shared documents.
- In addition to the online community, face-to-face learning opportunities at the NCTE annual convention, affiliate meetings, or related meetings for literacy educators will be structured to extend the knowledge on adolescent literacy.
Research and Assessment in the Pathway Learning Experience
NCTE's Pathways for Adolescent Literacy is designed around research on 21st century learning, motivation, content area reading and writing, issues surrounding the achievement gap, and testing and accountability.
Participants can maintain an ePortfolio to map their learning back to professional development objectives and student learning.
Log how you are using new strategies
Upload artifacts of teacher and student work associated with professional goals.
Use the reporting features to keep track of your activities and progress.
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