Kelly+Gallagher+Debrief

Kelly Gallagher Presentation Debrief July 7, 2011

Here's what our SIS 2011 Fellows took away from Kelly's presentation

Reaffirms many of our teaching practices related to writing the importance of modeling for any age level of student "Routines" in class are small chunks and build throughout the year Concepts of grammar instruction--less consumable List of books to read, authors to explore (for elementary, Katy Ray Wood, Debbie Miller, Debbie Diller, Gail Boushey, Joan Moser) Tracking changes on Word documents when modeling Sneeze, not quickwrite Idea of imitation and "mentor texts" Systems for handling the paper load Better ideas of accountability for kids "Pimp My Writing" Think Alouds and Making them Work: ask questions to class, collaborate, problem solve, model process, pick out pattern, commentary to make what you're doing visible, Poll class, "pre-thinking"/long term planning, know your students and their challenges with writing so you can be on the look out to address these in the think aloud, keep a list of strategies--entire school year record) Know audience when writing Two levels of modeling: texts, teacher Different versions of the same essay Constructivist--re-visit the same sentence all week Focus on essential, expand on practices/exposures Spiraling--return to ideas repeatedly throughout the school year Book study groups