New & Returning Teachers Workshop

Angela Ehmer

Presenter: Angela Ehmer M.Ed, B.Ed

Venue & Date: See Workshop Calendar

Pricing: $245 + GST (Limited spaces are available so please register early.)

RSVP: Five (5) working days prior to workshop

 

If you want the knowledge and confidence to improve reading standards in your classroom,
this workshop will give it to you - step by step...

Attention New or Returning Teachers!
Improve your Knowledge and Confidence as We Show You How To Master the Essential Elements of Teaching Literacy.

Your biggest teaching challenge can become your greatest success.
You can do less planning, fewer activities and marking, yet achieve amazing results. Best part: You can learn it all in one day and use it tomorrow to teach like an Expert!

The 'New & Returning Teachers Workshop' has been developed especially for recent teaching graduates and those re-familiarising themselves with teaching literacy after time away from the classroom. By examining the ways reading is taught and learned, you will be have the knowledge and confidence to:

You will gain knowledge of the very latest strategies used by literacy experts, that will make your teaching both powerful and efficient. In fact our strategies will actually free up time by dramatically improving classroom management, your own confidence, and heightening student engagement.

We’ll also show you how to free up further time by removing unnecessary clutter in the classroom literacy program.

The New & Returning Teachers’ Workshop will explore:

Ways to gather and analyse reading data in order to identify what students know, what they are grappling with and what they need to learn. Running records will be examined and short video segments will be viewed and discussed in order to determine future teaching goals.

Prompts and Strategies

What are the prompts and strategies and how do I know exactly what to say? When do I give a prompt and when do I wait? How much thinking time should I give the student? The prompts and their relationship to strategic problem solving will be discussed and participants will examine the importance of developing and teaching for a common, yet simple language which describes the problem solving required.

You will leave with a list of strategies and will have practised applying the prompts to a lower and an upper primary reading text.

Options for delivering a balanced reading program.

What are the approaches used to teach reading across the primary setting and what are the roles and responsibilities of teachers and learners within each approach? How frequently should reading instruction be provided for students of different ages and what do shared and guided reading lessons look like at different year levels across the school?

Participants will explore:

Promoting and Developing Independence

What do the other students do while the teacher takes a guided reading group? How do I provide quality learning tasks which extend reading skills and knowledge without assigning the much frowned upon 'busy work' and how do I identify rich learning from busy work?

You will explore strategies for developing self extending systems of learning and self regulatory reading behaviour and compare these to commonly assigned tasks in order to determine the validity of tasks assigned. The roles of reading journals, learning centres and reading contracts in supporting independent learners are explored as options for teacher directed and negotiated learning.

Attendance at this workshop will provide you with the knowledge to:

You will receive:

Your Presenter

Angela Ehmer (M.Ed, B.Ed, Dip.T.), Director, Literacy Solutions, AUTHOR of the new series, 'All You Need to Teach Comprehension' and one of Australia's foremost literacy experts, will deliver insights into reading instruction in this content rich workshop. Angela will reveal powerful teaching strategies that will give you confidence to boost the outcomes of students in your class.

Angela is an experienced literacy consultant who works with educators, publishers, parents and community organizations. Her experience includes classroom, Reading Recovery and learning support teaching, and consultancy to public and private sectors. Angela authors teacher reference and reading support material for Macmillan Education and is one of the Macmillan National PD Team. She works across Australia with education bodies to provide professional development services.

"Angela, as usual I loved the workshop. I could listen to you speaking for hours and hours! Thank you for sharing your knowledge and for being such a gracious, wonderful person." Dr. Ian Burgess, District Office - Education Queensland"

Your Satisfaction Guaranteed!

Our policy at Literacy Solutions has always been NO RISK, with a complete, no-questions-asked, 100% money-back guarantee of your satisfaction. If you are not completely happy with this essential workshop, for any reason, just let us know and you’ll get a prompt, cheerful refund. That’s the only way we want to do business. No risk. Just honest communication.

Here’s how to access this critical knowledge: If you want to understand and learn practical strategies to implement the key elements to delivering powerful, explicit lessons, just register. It’s only $245 +GST per registration.

Register now so you don’t miss out on delivering incredible results in 2011. Come along to the workshop… to learn how this comprehensive examination of teaching literacy in primary school can accelerate the development of literacy skills and behaviours. Look back in six months and you won’t remember how you ever managed your classroom without this knowledge. Discover in just one day of PD the processes that transform regular classroom teachers into powerful teachers of literacy.

"Angela, your message and level of skills training has to reach more people... it was the sort of PD that modern educators need to help them become more reflective about their practice." Jeannie Carr, Head of Curriculum, Belmont State School

If you’re not satisfied, for any reason, call to let us know and you’ll get a fast refund. Please hurry, though. Our workshops have strictly limited numbers and often fill fast.

But you need to register now. Don’t miss out on this research based practical approach. There are no costly programs to purchase, no gimmicks, just the best quality teaching practices. You’ll receive the most valuable literacy PD available – current, practical, comprehensive and focused on addressing the essential literacy issues in primary school.

YOU can transform the lives of the children in your class through literacy. Start NOW!

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