Date: March 16-17 &
May 18-19, 2012
Time: 9:00-4:00pm

Location: Langevin House at Vermont Technical College

Cost: $900.00 per person
* an additional $315.00 for optional 3 graduate credits from UNION Institute

Registration: www.lapdavt.org

Call (802) 224-9110 for more information

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Workshop Description:

This course in reading and writing across the career/technical classroom will focus on the MAX Teaching method. MAX is an acronym that stands for the three steps of the teaching framework that any teacher can use to help all students better learn their subject matter and improve the literacy skills of all students. The essential goal of teachers who use the MAX teaching framework is to level the playing field by raising the bar for all students, in a classroom environment that provides skill instruction to enable improved performance while engaging all students in active learning from textbooks and other forms of textual matter. The acronym stands for Motivation, Acquisition, and EXtension.

Seminar Abstract

This course will model a successful paradigm of constructivist staff development in content area literacy. Instruction in the MAX Teaching framework of instruction and practice includes activities that assist teachers in helping students become strategic readers and writers. The activities motivate students to actively interpret text through purposeful reading, cooperative construction of meaning and thoughtful reflection for lasting understanding.

Topics

• An over-all lesson framework to be used with any of the strategies, and
• Pre-reading concept checks
• Anticipation guides
• Two-column notes (Cornell notes)
• Group summarization techniques 
• Interactive note-taking
• Graphic representations
• Directed reading/thinking activities
• Paired reading
• PQRST note taking technique
• Teacher/student questioning technique
• Focused free writes
• Cubing

About the Presenters

Todd Luke