Explicit Teaching of Comprehension Strategies Using a Metacognitive Approach
Early in Term 2 of 2012, two teachers from St Thomas's attended a professional development day presented by Dr Alison Davis.
Dr Alison Davis is the director of Vision Education, a team providing regional PLD in literacy for schools in Auckland and Waikato.
She has a PHD from Auckland University and a 1st class Masters degree in Educational Leadership and Administration.
Her specialist areas are literacy, assessment and schooling improvement. She has led the PEN schooling improvement project in Huntly/Ngaruawahia and the Papakura Achievement Initiative in Papakura. Alison has been on the writing team for Effective Literacy Practice years 1-4 and years 5-8, the newly published oral language handbooks and the revised literacy progressions. Alison has also written her own texts – Teaching Reading Comprehension 2007 and Building Comprehension Strategies 2010. She is working on her next book,
Strategies for Comprehension: Informational text, due to be published in 2012.
The focus of the professional development workshop was the explicit teaching of comprehension strategies using a metacognitive approach. Engaging students and encouraging them to take ownership of their learning through student goal setting was also an important message presented in the workshop.
Following this professional development day, workshops were developed for teachers at St Thomas's and these were presented during staff meetings in Terms 2 and 3. (See the PowerPoint Presentation for staff PD below)
During Term 4, following the PD sessions, teachers took part in the 'peer mentoring' part of the project. They were able to put some of the theory from the PD sessions into practice in their classrooms, and were supported by feedback from a peer mentor.
Dr Alison Davis is the director of Vision Education, a team providing regional PLD in literacy for schools in Auckland and Waikato.
She has a PHD from Auckland University and a 1st class Masters degree in Educational Leadership and Administration.
Her specialist areas are literacy, assessment and schooling improvement. She has led the PEN schooling improvement project in Huntly/Ngaruawahia and the Papakura Achievement Initiative in Papakura. Alison has been on the writing team for Effective Literacy Practice years 1-4 and years 5-8, the newly published oral language handbooks and the revised literacy progressions. Alison has also written her own texts – Teaching Reading Comprehension 2007 and Building Comprehension Strategies 2010. She is working on her next book,
Strategies for Comprehension: Informational text, due to be published in 2012.
The focus of the professional development workshop was the explicit teaching of comprehension strategies using a metacognitive approach. Engaging students and encouraging them to take ownership of their learning through student goal setting was also an important message presented in the workshop.
Following this professional development day, workshops were developed for teachers at St Thomas's and these were presented during staff meetings in Terms 2 and 3. (See the PowerPoint Presentation for staff PD below)
During Term 4, following the PD sessions, teachers took part in the 'peer mentoring' part of the project. They were able to put some of the theory from the PD sessions into practice in their classrooms, and were supported by feedback from a peer mentor.
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