July          ◊  Professional Development   |   Children's Books   |   Professional Books   |   E-mail Us   |   Catalogs  ◊         2008    

Richard C. Owen Publishers Inc.
Hosts An Online Discussion

Exploring The Teaching and Learning Cycle
A key construct of The Learning Network

   
   When:   July 21, 22, and 23, 2008
   Where: The Learning Network Listserve
   Cost:     No Charge—It is FREE
   Join the discussion: click  TLN discussions
                                        and fill out the form
 

The Teaching and Learning Cycle offers a structure to guide the teacher in
making professional decisions about what a learner next needs to know,
what needs to be taught, what resources to use, what form of grouping
will work best, and what approach to use in supporting learners. 

This construct evolved in the 1990s as educators working with The Learning
Network searched for a way to describe a model to help teachers plan good
instruction that would help a learner at any stage to make progress. Click Here
for more information and to view a schema of the cycle.   

This conversation will investigate the elements of the teaching and learning
cycle and will introduce examples from educators who work with young children,
with secondary students, and in professional development environments. 

We invite all classroom teachers, administrators, and staff developers to be
part of the conversation.

• Participate in a learning discussion with educators involved in theory,
  research, and practice that supports differentiated instruction and responds
  to the needs of individual learners. 
• discuss the meaning of assessment for learning; consider how formative
  assessment shapes instruction.
• investigate how to evaluate assesssment samples to make instructional
  decisions about what the learner next needs to learn.
• explore the layers and components of planning for instruction--identifying
  a learning objective, grouping for effective instruction, choice of resource,
  and selection of approach.
• consider how these decisions lead to instruction that can take a learner
  to a new level of understanding. 

Please share this invitation with your colleagues. To participate in the discussion,
click TLN discussions.  If you are new to TLN online discussions please
visit the online discussion page at www.rcowen.com for information and
transcripts of previous discussions. 


             

Bio Information

Lenny Sánchez served as a TLN teacher leader in Indiana, where he taught for several  years.  He has also worked as a staff developer with The Learning Network.  Currently, he is working on a Ph.D. in language and literacy at Indiana University, where he teaches pre-service teachers and is involved in various projects as a
research assistant. 

Kevin Shrum worked as a middle school teacher of reading, writing, and social studies.  He was a Literacy Support Specialist and a District Instructional Coach in Bellingham, Washington, supporting instructional coaches, leadership teams, and administrators at the building level.  His current assignment beginning August 2008 is 6th grade literacy teacher at Aurora Hills Middle School in Aurora, Colorado.

MaryAnn Whitfield has been a classroom teacher, TLN teacher leader, facilitator with Literacy Learning in the Classroom, and coordinator working with schools supported byThe Learning Network. She trained as a coordinator with Marilyn Duncan.  MaryAnn is author of the chapter on Independent Writing in Caught in the Spell of Writing and Reading: Grade 3 and Beyond edited by Margaret Mooney and Terrell Young.  Her current assignment is Instructional Coordinator in the Hutto, Texas school district where she provides on-going, job-embedded professional development for teachers, teacher leaders, and administrators Pre-K - 12.

Geri Williams is a former elementary school principal from New England who studied writing process with Don Graves and Don Murray in the 1980s.  Now she works with teachers and schools throughout the country--in both urban and rural environments--as a coordinator for The Learning Network.  Geri has been a facilitator for Literacy Learning in the Classroom and trained as a coordinator with Jan Duncan.  She is also co-author of I Can Write!, My Writing, and The Writing Of... three writing journals for children in the elementary grades.

For more about Richard C. Owen Publishers Inc. ,
visit our website at www.RCOwen.com