Teaching with Urgency, Without Teaching to the Test! by Jen Jones – Hello Literacy Session Handouts North Carolina Reading Conference March 17, 2015 Twitter Handle: @hellojenjones Workshop Hashtag: #NCRA15 © 2015, Jen Jones Blog: helloliteracy.blogspot.com Store: hellojenjones.com Email: helloliteracy@gmail.com _________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________ Jen Jones | www.helloliteracy.blogspot.com | @hellojenjones [...]... practice and reinforce the skills and strategies taught in the mini-lesson? With peers? With technology? With discussion? (and independently doesn't have to mean alone, sitting and at a desk) Without being assessed on it yet or a grade taken for every practice run? Do students know what to do to solve a problem while you are teaching Guided Reading? How many students are you reaching in a Guided Reading.. .Teaching With Urgency? Answer these questions to reflect & find out What are students doing and why are they doing it? Is there a sense of urgency about your teaching and the students' learning? Do students know what it is they are supposed to be learning? And how and where have you communicated this? What percentage of the day are you talking and what percentage of the day... actually reading? (like "eyes on print" time as Lucy would say) Is the focus of your Guided Reading session aligned to the Teaching Point of your minilesson? Is your mini-lesson about 10 minutes? Or are you not aware of time and your mini-lesson turns into a maxi-lesson? Are students receiving solid, strategic, systematic, and explicit instruction in all of The Big 7 areas of ELA? Are students getting an... talking? How regularly are you providing feedback to students, written or oral? And how regularly are students providing you with feedback? (In his 2012 book, Visible Learning for Teachers, Hattie claims that "the most powerful single influence enhancing achievement is feedback." What percentage of the day are you reading to students and what percentage of the day are students reading to themselves, to you, . Teaching with Urgency, Without Teaching to the Test! by Jen Jones – Hello Literacy Session Handouts North Carolina Reading Conference March 17, 2015 Twitter Handle: @hellojenjones Workshop. Literacy Teaching With Urgency? Answer these questions to reflect & find out. What are students doing and why are they doing it? Is there a sense of urgency about your teaching and the. or a grade taken for every practice run? Do students know what to do to solve a problem while you are teaching Guided Reading? How many students are you reaching in a Guided Reading session