MoHum: Professional Learning Literacy Academy
The IEC Missouri Humanities program (MoHum) is now the Missouri Humanities: Professional Learning Literacy Academy and is a Department of Elementary and Secondary Education funded professional development opportunity, open to educators in grades 6-12, in Missouri public schools. Join us for four days of literacy discourse across the disciplines. Divided into eight half-day sessions, the Learning Literacy Academy offers participants rigorous content as we answer the question: What's really advancing learning and what's not in today's classrooms? Participants receive a copy of the core text, Adolescent Literacy: Turning Promise into Practice by Kylene Beers, Robert E. Probst, and Linda Reif.
Participants are encouraged to attend as interdisciplinary teams.
Outline for Four Days of Literacy Workshops:
Day One, October 3, 2008:
A. Examining Literacy
Practice in our Secondary Schools
B. Teaching Writing Your Way Across
the Disciplines
Day Two, November 6, 2008:
A. Mastering the Art of
Vocabulary Instruction Across the Disciplines
B. Literacy Strategies for English
Language Learners and
AYP Students
Day Three, February 6, 2009:
A. Thinking Through
Assessment
B. Teacher and Student Research
Day Four, May 8, 2009:
A. Understanding
Multiliterate Adolescents; Unleashing Potential with
Emerging
Technologies
B. Reading Strategies for Today's
Multiliterate Adolescents
Prices:
Option 1: $400 per person (includes all 4 sessions)
Option 2: $1,200 for a team of up to 4 people (includes all 4 sessions), additional team members are $300 per person
Dates:
October 3, 2008
November 6, 2008
February 6, 2009
May 8, 2009
Time: 8:30 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. each day
Instructors:
Bonnie Davis is the author of How to Coach Teachers Who Don't Think Like You: Using Literacy Strategies to Coach Across Content Areas and How to Teach Students Who Don't Look Like You: Culturally Relevant Teaching Strategies. Bonnie was an English teacher for 30 years and a staff developer for more than 10 years. Bonnie works throughout the country in the field of literacy education and currently lives in California.
Sue Heggarty is the former Director of the Teachers' Academy and
Co-Director of the Missouri Humanities Project. Sue was an
English teacher for 31 years and a department head for 20 years.
She has presented at NCTE, NSDC, and IRA and has taught
English education at Fontbonne University.
For additional information on this important staff development
opportunity or to register a team, please contact Sue Heggarty at
314-692-9717, sheggarty@csd.org, or Megan Moncure,
Executive Secretary, at 314-692-9702, mmoncure@csd.org.
Download the flyer and information sheet HERE.
