Learn advanced strategies and techniques to develop fluency, problem-solving strategies, and independence in learning. Learn to keep and analyze anecdotal records on children's performance and progress as a basis for lesson focus and teaching decisions. Understand the relationships between reading and writing and improve techniques for helping students become more independent writers. Extend understanding of the role of word analysis in reading and learn additional techniques for developing students' word analysis strategies. Learn to make more appropriate teaching decisions to facilitate acceleration and discontinuance.
Activities Attend weekly three-hour class sessions.
Tutor a case-load of four children throughout the year. Keep appropriate records. Observe and participate in discussions when others are teaching demonstration lessons. Analyze tapes, videos, and records of one's own lessons. Receive at least four field visits per year from trained teacher leader.