Summer PD courses will be held at Round Rock High School this year. Please check the course descriptions to register on Eduphoria, and confirmation of location.
This course is designed for all RRISD Kindergarten classroom teachers who are committed to turning their classrooms into richly literate reading and writing workshops using developmentally appropriate practices. The following is a partial list of topics that will be studied:
In this course, we will study teaching that fosters student independence and a growth mindset in our youngest learners, classroom systems and structures that support inquiry and collaboration, the development of a young child’s reading and writing skills over the course of a Kinder school year, taking a closer look at all components of balanced literacy, using formative assessments to plan for instructional next steps, the central role of planning in the teaching of reading and writing, and a trajectory of mini-lessons for supporting foundational literacy skills
Previous participants of the Kindergarten Literacy Cohort can join this cohort to continue the work from the previous year. This course includes 8 mandatory after-school sessions:
July 25, 2018 (full day) July 26, 2018 (full day) September 4, 2018 September 18, 2018 October 2, 2018 October 16, 2018 October 30, 2018 November 13, 2018 December 4, 2018 December 13, 2018 {Celebration}
TAKEAWAYS: title of texts to use throughout the academic day, new mini-lessons for reading/writing/choice workshop, reading/writing/play assessment tools, new shared and interactive read alouds, songs and poems to grow phonemic awareness, and a lab-site/conferring clinic
