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Engaging Early Learners. SESSION. 1. Overview. Becoming an Independent Reader is a professional learning resource with four sessions : Engaging Early Learners Making Thinking Visible Supporting Student Inquiry Reflecting on Learning. Overview. Key Messages. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Engaging Early Learners

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Overview

Becoming an Independent Reader is a professional learning resource with four sessions:1. Engaging Early Learners

2. Making Thinking Visible

3. Supporting Student Inquiry

4. Reflecting on Learning

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Key Messages

• The purposeful integration of the four roles of the literate learner supports higher-order thinking and student independence in early primary classrooms.

• An inquiry approach to teaching and learning leads to student and teacher efficacy and supports the development of independence in reading.

• Ongoing reflection on research findings and classroom practices deepens the professional knowledge of educators and informs their teaching practices.

• Ministry resources (e.g., monographs, webcasts and curriculum documents) support early primary teachers in planning effective literacy instruction.

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A Child’s Perspective on Reading

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A Child’s Perspective on Reading

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“Teaching is not about finding the magic answer and applying it. We can only be really good teachers if we’re always questioning what we’re doing. Great teaching is a constant quest.”

– Carol RolheiserQuoted in “A Contest Quest” University of

Toronto Magazine, 2006

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Setting the Purpose

This session probes the conditions for student engagement by asking the following questions:

• What classroom conditions characterize learning communities that foster engagement?

• How might students and teachers co-construct learning to deepen thinking?

• How does taking an inquiry stance support student engagement? How does it foster independent learning?

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“In adopting an inquiry stance, we push our beliefs out of their resting positions and engage in a cycle where new knowledge provokes new questions and where new questions generate new knowledge.”

– Mitzi Lewison, Christine Leland, Jerome Harste

Creating critical classrooms: K –8 Reading and Writing with an Edge (2008, page 17)

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Student Identity and Engagement

“Ensuring students are listened to and valued and respected for who they are leads to greater student engagement which, in turn, leads to greater student achievement.”– Student Identity and Engagement

in Elementary Schools Capacity Building Series, 2011,

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Teaching with an Inquiry Stance

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Teaching with an Inquiry StanceGrade 1/2 Teacher

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Connecting the documents…

and identifying classroom conditions that support student engagement

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Authentic Real-life Inquiry in Kindergarten

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Authentic Real-life Inquiry in Kindergarten

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Gradual Release of Responsibility

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The Gradual Release of Responsibility

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Peer Conferencing in Grade 2

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Peer Conferencing in Grade 2

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Adapted from Literacy for Learning: The Report of the Expert Panel on Literacy in Grades 4 to 6 in Ontario (2004). For discussion purposes only.

Thinking about The Four Roles of the Literate Learner

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Thinking about Inquiry

What are the learning needs of our students?What do they already know?What do they need to learn and do?How do we build on what they know?

What are our learning needs?

What do we already know that we can useto support student learning needs?

What do we need to learn to doto support student learning needs?

What sources of evidence/knowledgecan we utilize to learn this?

What teaching actions will support student learning within the tasks and experiences?

What was the impact of:• the learning tasks/experiences? • our teaching actions?

What learning tasks and experiences can we design to support student needs?

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Collaborative Teacher Inquiry

reciprocal relevant

collaborative

reflective

iterative

reasoned

adaptive

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Moving Thinking Forward

“Confirmation bias” is the tendency to seek confirmation of what we already think, believe, know and do.When we read professionally, our natural inclination is to focus on the things that confirm what we already think, believe, know and do.

Katz and Dack suggest that in order to “intentionally interrupt” the confirmation bias, we should highlight the things we don’t agree with and create an opportunity to make our tacit knowledge explicit – to create the conditions for possible real, new learning.”

– Adapted from Steven Katz and Lisa DackIntentional Interruption (in press)

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Connecting Theory and Practice

“With such wide and varied bodies of knowledge to explore, and limited time to act on the specific needs of students, it is important that the use of expert knowledge is strategic and purposeful.”

– Collaborative Teacher Inquiry, Capacity Building Series, 2010, page 4

Research articles to support ongoing professional learning are available to all members of the Ontario College of Teachers in the Members Area/ Margaret Wilson Library.

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Research Reflections on Engaging Early Learners

The Ecology of Learning: Factors Contributing to Learner-centred Classroom Culture

(Crick, McCombs, Haddon, Broadfoot, & Tew, 2007)

Organizing Literacy Classrooms for Effective Instruction

(Reutzel & Clark, 2011)

Philosophy in Primary Schools: Fostering Thinking Skills and Literacy

(Fisher, 2001)

The Classroom Environment First, Last and Always

(Roskos & Neuman, 2011)

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Curriculum DocumentsSessions 1 – 4

The Ontario Curriculum, Grades 1–8: Language, 2006 (revised)

The Ontario Curriculum, Grades 1–8: Science and Technology, 2007 (revised)

The Ontario Curriculum, Grades 1–8: Mathematics, 2005 (revised)

The Ontario Curriculum, Grades 1–8: The Arts, 2009 (revised)

The Ontario Curriculum, Grades 1–8: Health and Physical Education, 2010 (revised/interim edition)

All resource and curriculum documents used in Thinking about Thinking sessions are available online in PDF – click to download file to desktop.

A Guide to Effective Literacy Instruction, Grades 4 to 6 – Volume One, Foundations of Literacy Instruction for the Junior Learner, 2006 Part 1 & Part 2

The Full-Day Early Learning – Kindergarten Program, 2010–2011 (draft version)

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MonographsSessions 1 – 4

• Asking Effective Questions in Mathematics – Capacity Building Series, 2011

• Collaborative Teacher Inquiry – Capacity Building Series, 2010

• Critical Literacy – Capacity Building Series, 2009

• Getting Started with Student Inquiry – Capacity Building Series, 2011

• Grand Conversations in Primary Classrooms – Capacity Building Series, 2011

All monographs used in Thinking about Thinking sessions are available online in PDF – click to download file to desktop. • Integrated Curriculum – What Work

s? – Research into Practice, 2010

• Integrated Learning in the Classroom – Capacity Building Series, 2010

• Let’s Talk about Listening – Capacity Building Series, 2009

• Primary Assessment – Capacity Building Series, 2010

• Student Identity and Engagement in Elementary Schools – Capacity Building Series, 2011

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Research ArticlesSessions 1 – 4

Session 1• The Ecology of Learning: Factors Contributing to Learner-centred Classroom

Cultures (Crick, McCombs, Haddon, Broadfoot, & Tew, 2007)• The Classroom Environment First, Last and Always (Roskos & Neuman,

2011)• Philosophy in Primary Schools: Fostering Thinking Skills and Literacy

(Fisher, 2001)• Organizing Literacy Classrooms for Effective Instruction (Reutzel & Clark,

2011)

Session 2• Making Thinking Visible – How to Promote Engagement, Understanding and

Independence in All Learners (Ritchhart, Church & Morrison, Karin, 2011)• Critical Literacy in Australia: A Matter of Context and Standpoint (Luke,

2000) • Using the Everyday to Engage in Critical Literacy with Young Children

(Vasquez, 2009)• Teachers Talking to Young Children: Invitations to Negotiate Meaning in

Everyday Conversations (Gjems, 2010)

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All research articles are available online in PDF to members of the Ontario College of Teachers. Click here to proceed.

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Research ArticlesSessions 1 – 4

Session 2 (continued)• The Nature of Student Teacher Discourse in an Elementary Classroom

(Dickson, 2005) • Orchestrating Discussions (Smith, Hughes & Engle, 2009)• Teachers Talking to Young Children: Invitations to Negotiate Meaning in

Everyday Conversations (Gjems, 2010)

Session 3• It’s a Mystery: A Case of Implementing Forensic Science in a Preschool

Science Inquiry (Howett, Lewis & Upson, 2011)• Reading Through a Disciplinary Lens (Juel, Hebard, Haubner & Moran,

2010)• Inquiring Minds Learn to Read, Write and Think: Reaching all Learners

Through Inquiry (Wilhelm & Wilhelm, 2010)• An Early Start on Thinking (Epstein, 2008)• New Horizons in Comprehension (Keene, 2010)

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Research ArticlesSessions 1 – 4

Session 4• Children’s Self-Assessment of Their Schoolwork in Elementary School

(Elder, 2010)• Using Self-assessment in Elementary Classrooms (Bingham, Holbrook &

Meyers, 2010)• Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Answer (Aukerman, 2006) • Launching Self-Directed Learners (Costa & Kallick, 2004)• Talking in Class: Remembering What is Important about Classroom Talk

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HandoutsSessions 1 – 4

• Checklist for an Inclusive Classroom Community

• Learning Environment Document Statements

• Four Roles of the Literate Learner

• Thinking about Inquiry

• Making Thinking Visible Document Statements

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VideosSessions 1 – 4

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SESSION 1• A Child’s Perspective on Reading 1.02• Teaching with an Inquiry Stance Grade

1 / 2 Teacher 3:11• Authentic Real-life Inquiry Kindergarten

4:27• The Gradual Release of Responsibility 7:

19• Peer Conferencing in Grade 2 2:43

SESSION 2• Talking About Learning in Kindergarten

2:14• Reading Different Texts Grade 2 4:03• Play-Based Learning in Authentic, Real-L

ife Contexts Kindergarten 2:17

• Relevance and Authenticity: Articulating Values and Beliefs and Taking Action Grade 2 6:20

• Reading the World: Allan Luke 5:12

SESSION 3• It’s About a Repertoire: Allan Luke 0:44• An Inquiry Approach to Learning Grade

1/2 Teacher 3:06• Inquiry in Kindergarten 3:06• Sharing Learning in Grade 1 2:11

SESSION 4• Student Teacher Reading Conference

Grade 1 4:26• Questioning and Listening Grade 1

3:14• Consolidating the Learning Grade 2

5:55