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What Are You Thinking? - Patrick A. Allen

What Are You Thinking?

Conferring in Reader's Workshop
DVD Video
2011
Stenhouse Publishers (Hersteller)
978-1-57110-880-7 (ISBN)
CHF 489,95 inkl. MwSt
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Have you ever wanted to sit down beside a master teacher and see how he or she confers? In this DVD, join Patrick Allen, author of Conferring: The Keystone to Reader's Workshop, as he confers with nine different students over the course of two days.

Sitting down one-on-one with a student in a conference is the best way to differentiate instruction so all students can learn the comprehension skills and strategies that wise readers use. Patrick demonstrates how to connect with readers, how to monitor their progress through individual records, and, perhaps most important, how to encourage children to love books and reading while honoring their individuality. Let's face it: conferring in reader's workshop is hard work. There is no script or program that plans for all the ways a conference can be managed.

Throughout What Are You Thinking? Patrick provides a strong model for navigating the open-ended possibilities that each reader brings to a reading conference. In the lesson on determining importance in text, we see Patrick model how readers decide what is essential in the text they are reading and then watch as he confers with his students about the decisions they are making while reading. Each of the nine conferences has a different instructional focus, including vocabulary, appropriate text choice, expository text, and reading with a writer's eye. This DVD will leave you ready to confer with readers in your classroom.

Patrick is the youngest of ten children--five boys and five girls. "My parents were wonderful role models of literacy and learning, hard work, and humility," he says. His mother was a cook and owned a restaurant, and his father, a bricklayer by trade, helped run the restaurant and served as a "night cop" in their hometown. "I became a teacher because I enjoy learning and spending time with kids. My parents were always learning and encouraged all of us to get our education. From the time I was a little boy, I wanted to teach." Patrick received his bachelor's degree in communications disorders and his graduate certification in elementary education from the University of Northern Colorado. He received his master's degree in curriculum, instruction, and pedagogy with a mathematics and science emphasis from the University of Colorado at Denver. He is currently a teacher at Frontier Valley Elementary School and a staff developer/lab classroom teacher at the Public Education and Business Coalition. He has over twenty years of teaching experience. Patrick is intrigued by the process learners go through as they become thinkers. "I love helping children develop their passions. I am always trying to hone my craft and welcome the challenges that professional inquiry brings to my learning and the classroom." He believes that for effective professional development, participants have to understand their own learning process and make professional growth as authentic as possible. Patrick and his wife, Susan, love spending time with their four children: Graham, Anneke, Jens, and Lauryn. He says, "My busy family certainly puts parenting to the test, but it's the best test of all!"

Erscheint lt. Verlag 30.8.2012
Verlagsort York, Maine
Sprache englisch
Themenwelt Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik
ISBN-10 1-57110-880-7 / 1571108807
ISBN-13 978-1-57110-880-7 / 9781571108807
Zustand Neuware
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