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Coaching Literacy Workshop
Apr 21, 2007
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Event Location
Mesa College, Kirk Center
Center of Campus, Next to the Clock Tower
1833 West Southern Avenue, Mesa, AZ 85202
480-461-7000
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This event has been pre-approved for 2.5 clock hours Faculty Professional Growth non-academic advancement.
Coaching Literacy Workshop: Removing Barriers to Learning for Under-Prepared Students
Apr 21, 2007
Mesa Community College, Kirk Center
9:00am - 12:00pm
Sponsored by
Maricopa Center for Learning and Instruction (MCLI). Registration is open to the public; simply go to Register to the left.
About this workshop
When we teach students in the classroom how to write, we usually tell them what they need to know. Students learn to do. One-on-one instruction with the program Coaching Literacy™, however, creates a new possibility. What students need to know reveals itself as a result of doing the work. Students do to learn. Consequently, students can learn new techniques for reading and writing without needing technical instruction. This creates a new world of opportunity for students who have been struggling with their reading and writing. This also creates new opportunities for parents and students to tutor reading and writing.
The goal of this workshop is to
- Explore the methodology of Coaching Literacy™ so that teachers, parents, and directors of tutoring programs using peer tutors can see what new opportunities are possible for college and high school students.
- Provide hands-on experiences so that participants will acquire an ability to use the program of Coaching Literacy™ effectively and create new pathways of learning for students struggling with reading and writing.
- Provide participants with a source of free instructional materials for this program.
Agenda
8:30-9:00 am
Registration
9:10-10:00 am
Welcome and Overview of the Day
Hands-on experiences for teaching under-prepared students to do the following without needing any technical instruction:
- READING: Read and understand long, complicated sentences with embedded participial phrases and identify main ideas easily.
- WRITING: Write long, complicated sentences with embedded participial phrases.
10:00-10:10 am
Break
10:10-11:00 am
Hands-on experiences for teaching under-prepared students to do the following without needing any technical instruction:
- WRITING: Create mental images by describing what is happening out there in the world. For example, when we write, we could tell readers that it was cold. However, "cold" does not happen in the world. "Cold" is a concept that happens only in a person's thoughts. Showing what cold looks like creates a mental image that readers can experience. Here is an example. "My fingers were turning blue, and my face felt as if it were about to crack with the slightest touch."
- READING: Acquire a new ability to make inferences when they read. By describing outward acts, for example, that show what is happening out there in the world, students acquire a new ability to make inferences when they read. This is the "Writing Road to College Reading."
11:00 am -11:10 pm
Break 11:10-11:40 pm
Hands-on experiences for teaching under-prepared students to do the following without needing any technical instruction:
- WRITING: Write thesis statements and topic sentences that generate support. Learn about the different types of support for topic sentences.
- READING: Expand their capacity to read and understand textbooks by acquiring a familiarity with the different patterns of support.
11:40-12:00 pm
Complete assessment, event evaluation, and reflection.
About the speakers...
Gene Fazio : A full-time college faculty member in the Maricopa Community Colleges since 1970, Gene Fazio holds a master's degree in English and in reading from Arizona State University. He was the recipient of two Mesa Community College awards for teaching excellence (Employee Recognition Award for Excellence in Service-1995, Faculty Excellence Award-2000), and one for Innovator of the Year (1994). In addition, the Maricopa chapter of the NAACP awarded him the Image Award for Education (1997).
In 2004, the Maricopa Community Colleges Foundation of the Maricopa Community Colleges awarded him the "Foundation Employee Recognition Award." He led a team of faculty members that developed two nationally-published English software programs: GRAMMAR TOOLS (1995) and WRITING TUTOR IV (1997). Both programs were adopted by the NCAA's Life Skills/Champs Program. He is also the lead author of a developmental composition textbook Practicing Paragraphs, published by Holt, Rhinehart, and Winston in 1990.
He currently has a United States Patent pending for an innovative methodology for tutoring reading and writing called Coaching Literacy™.
Newspaper articles about Coaching Literacy™:
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Faculty Professional Growth
This Dialogue Day has been pre-approved for 2.5 clock hours Faculty Professional Growth non-academic advancement.
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