Ready, Set, Teach™

OVERVIEW

The research is clear: students who are not reading proficiently by the end of third grade are much more likely to face poor academic outcomes. More alarming, the reality of deficient readers—especially for poor and minority students—is this: struggling readers are likely to drop out of high school, end up in jail or go on welfare. For these reasons, it is incredibly important that children learn to read early and continue building active reading skills throughout their school years. It is also incredibly important that college of education majors are prepared to help struggling readers.

Reading is a fluid and flexible integration of multi-functional skills working in tandem to create meaning. Equally important, the methods used to teach reading, specifically comprehension, must correspond precisely to those needs, and the expertise of teachers needs to be as diverse and strategically skillful to accommodate the variants of student needs. With that said,

ARE YOUR College of Education GRADUATES READY TO TEACH READING?

What we do know is that teachers can’t teach what they don’t know. Recent studies agree that while college of education programs are equipping to-be-teachers with proven approaches to teach phonics, phonological awareness, vocabulary acquisition, and fluency, comprehension—especially when faced with deficient readers—is still a struggle for novice teachers. First- to third-year teachers have difficulty transitioning “word callers” to critical thinkers.

Why? Novice teachers know there’s a deficit but find difficulty in making their reading process visible to the learner.

In this six-week teacher clinic, college of education majors learn and apply robust scaffolded strategies that drill down to combat the multiple barriers readers face.  The strategies your college students will learn, will make sense and answer many of their whys and hows.

We guarantee that when your college students learn and execute core strategies at the start of the school year, students who historically score below reading achievement levels will feel smart. Translation: They will quickly realize they can learn. By the end of the school year, they will describe themselves as “critical thinkers.”

Your college of education majors will learn:

(1)  How to teach students to self-monitor and self-correct their own learning—a metacognition instructional delivery model established in the first week of school and sustained year-round.

(2)  How to shift from a single-focused approach to reading to a multiple comprehension strategy, relevant to informational and literary genres.

(3)  How to scaffold effectively and purposefully to meet the needs of all learners.

Educating Young Minds’ College of Education Teacher Clinic is a novice teacher’s solution to literacy success with students, grades 3-12. It’s a methodical approach to teaching and learning designed to awaken students’ critical thinking beginning day 1 and raise reading comprehension and state assessments scores in one school year. Schedule your slot today!