Cris tovani workshops for teachers
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The Interdisciplinary Instruction team from the Maine Department of Education’s Office of Teaching and Learning is excited to bring educator and author Cris Tovani to Maine on October 7th for an all-day workshop that explores ways to engage, excite, and “hook” reluctant learners in building their literacy skills and mastery.
Through the lens of student dispositions, Tovani has discovered ways around the various “masks” some students wear and created opportunities for those students to engage with their own learning in vibrant and authentic ways.
At the conclusion of this workshop, participants will be able to:
- describe what full engagement looks like and discuss the importance of engagement in literacy competence,
- provide reasons for students to read, write, and discuss,
- model for students how to monitor and repair meaning when reading complex text, and
- state how these discrete tasks, methods, and skills build literacy proficiency.
The workshop will run from 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM at Camp Chamberlain in Augusta, Maine, and is free to all Maine educators. Limited in-person spots are available and will be filled as people sign up. Participants can also participate virtually through Zoom, and the workshop will be recorded and shared with educators. Contact hours are availabl
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Cris Tovani: Use These 6Ts to Deepen Learning
Cris Tovani’s 2021 article begins with an online teaching story, then dives into her strategies for deep engagement in any teaching environment, built on the premise that students need to know why what they’re learning matters. (Updated June 2024).
By Cris Tovani
Nervously, I stare at my computer screen, hoping that students on the other end will click the sticky note icon and add thinking to the Jamboard. To my relief, a few begin posting.
I read each one looking for patterns of confusion and understanding. But wait! What is that red, rogue pen doing making wild squiggly marks all over the screen? At the head of the squiggly line is a circle too small to see and no doubt frames the face of the culprit maneuvering the menacing red line around the stickies that more compliant students have added.
This is my first virtual Literacy Lab. Hired to model engagement strategies online with a seventh-grade geography class, I have to remember to focus on what matters most.
To Engage, We Have to CYA
Deeper learning can happen remotely, but in order for it to occur I have to CYA. I do it by using what I call Curriculum You Anticipate structures. These structures correspond with the 6Ts for literacy learning
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