Kevin Feldman - Improving Academic Literacy- Oregon RTI 

Developing Critical Thinking/Comprehension Skills Across the Disciplines Grades 6-8

A Recent Institute on Education Sciences research summary practice guide has clarified five essential recommendations for improving adolescent literacy, especially critical in light of the challenging "21st Century Literacy Standards." Dr. Kevin Feldman will guide an exploration of "research to practice" applications of these evidence based "tools" via modeling, discussion, video demonstration, and classroom simulations. A particular emphasis will be on devloping critical thinking/comprehension skills across ALL content areas grades 6-8, including the urgent need to teach middle school students critical media literacy, how to reason effectively while using tools such as Google search and various social media platforms.

Who Should Attend:

• Content area teachers
• Special Education
• ELL Support
• Instructional Coaches
• Administrators
• Others interested in improving student achievement

Learning Objectives:

Explore key evidence based strategies to help students learn to:

• Develop a growth mind-set supporting risk taking, engagement, & presistence
• Make their thinking visible
• Explain their thinking
• Analyze their thinking
• Compare/contrast their thinking w/peers
• Refine, correct, and elaborate their thinking w/teacher feedback via formative assessment
• Employ research based cognitive strategies designed to sharpen and enhance their ability to paraphrase, summarize, elaborate, compare/contrast, infer, & otherwise actively process academic information leading to enhanced comprehension.
• Thinking critically when using various digital tools/social media

This training is open to districts outside the Oregon RTIi project for a fee of $50 per person. Once you register, you will receive an email with payment instructions.

Lunch and coffee service will be served. You must let us know when you register if you have any food restrictions. Please check your confirmation email to make sure your information is correct.

A block of rooms are available at the Eugene Hilton.

Registration will close on February 20 or before if we fill up.

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