[MOSAIC] Comprehension Toolkit Staff Development

[Pat Kraus]

Wow!  What great resources I never thought about for the adult simulations
working with reading strategies!!!  Thank you SOOOO much!  I'll let you know
how it goes and it is a great time to introduce the text mapping technique
and your website!  I like the idea of it being oral and negotiating meaning
collectively from the start. I will search for the article you mentioned
on-line &/or at the library!  Pat K in Iowa

On 9/14/06, Dave Middlebrook <dmiddlebrook at comcast.net> wrote:
>
>  I particularly like the Sunday Magazine and Week in Review sections of
> the New York Times and Washington Post.  Also, articles from the New
> Yorker.  If the goal is to have adults in your workshop experience the
> strategies as learners -- and I think that's a great way to go -- then
> magazines such as these work really well.
>
> I did a workshop last winter in which I used an article from the New York
> Times Sunday Magazine.  The article was about a college football coach ("The
> Most Offensive Mind in Football", 12/4/05).  It is about offensive strategy,
> as seen through the eyes of coach Mike Leach, of Texas Tech.  Sound
> interesting?  I can hear you all groaning and shaking your heads in
> bewilderment.  Football?  Ah...but it was fun!  Graeat photos, excellent
> graphics, and a long, substantial, and very insightful article about a
> brilliant, iconoclastic strategist.  There were only four men in the
> workshop; other than that, a roomful of women.  The men hunkered down and
> got right to work.  The women looked at me like I was from Mars -- now
> there's a text-to-text connection for you! -- but by the end of the exercise
> they were all converts.
>
> And a nice thing about the Times' Magazine is that it's a relatively big
> format.  This makes it easier to work in small groups -- which encourages
> shared learning and the kind of conversational, thinking-out-loud approach
> advocated by Keene, Tovani, Miller, Harvey and Goudvis, et al.  I would add
> to this mix that I had the groups in my workshop working on scrolls of the
> article.  This made sharing and conversation even easier and opened the way
> to a much broader discussion in each group about how you actually go about
> comprehending such an article -- which was the whole point of my workshop,
> and will be the point of the two sessions that you will be running as well.
>
> Good luck with your workshops!
>
> Dave Middlebrook
> The Textmapping Project
> A resource for teachers improving reading comprehension skills
> instruction.
> www.textmapping.org   |   Please share this site with your colleagues!
> USA: (609) 771-1781
> dmiddlebrook at textmapping.org
>
>
>  ----- Original Message -----
> *From:* Pat Kraus <patkrau at gmail.com>
> *To:* Mosaic at literacyworkshop.org
> *Sent:* Thursday, September 14, 2006 7:27 AM
> *Subject:* [MOSAIC] Comprehension Toolkit Staff Development
>
>
> Hello!  I am introducing the Harvey and Goudvis Comprehension Toolkit to
> two different audiences:  one group of elementary teacher 4-6 and to the
> entire staff of a junior high.  Under Staff development on the Teaching
> Tools section of readinglady.com I ran across a post from Heather
> Wall--(if you are reading this bless you for that!)
>
> She suggested using "When the Mayor of  the Sister City in Japan Addressed
> the Chamber of Commerce of Klammath Falls, Oregon" ( webdelsol.com) a
> piece of micro-fiction,  having the teachers do margins responses, then
> discuss The story and their thinking at their tables.  Then they were asked
> to come up with a list of strategies they used collaboratively to make
> meaning of the story.  That was a great way to "Start with the end in
> mind"--  that they had just experienced the kind of discussion and
> metacognition we want for our students.  It was a challenging piece for
> adults (you would never use it with students--except maybe upper level high
> school)
> My question is--does anyone have any other pieces they have used with
> adults to simulate the kinds of lessons in Strategies that Work or The
> Comprehension Toolkit?  I have 3-4 more sessions with each group and they
> are enthused to experience the strategies as "students."  Heather said her
> feedback was that  the teachers appreciated that simulation much more than
> watching the videos of Pearson, Harvey, and Goudvis and that has been my
> experience as well.
> Thank you all for your enthusiasm and commitment to real reading--it keeps
> me energized!
> Pat K. Iin owa
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