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Becoming Expert Readers and Writers Webinar Series 2020 - 2021: Designing for Literacy Development in the Hybrid Classroom

California Coalition for Inclusive Literacy

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Session 1: �Becoming Expert Readers & Writers

Monday, December 14, 2020 3:00 – 4:00 PM PT

Learning Series: Designing for Literacy Development in the Hybrid Classroom

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Chat Box Options�At anytime, feel free to:

Introduce yourself

Ask or answer �a question

Share an idea or a connection you see

Hyperlink a resource for your colleagues

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Chat Box

Live, quick conversations
Can send full group and private messages
Can use @person’s-name

Click on the Chat icon

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CAST Facilitators

Susan Shapiro

Implementation Specialist

sshapiro@cast.org

Niel Albero

Implementation Specialist

nalbero@cast.org

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Your Learning Environment

Documents that may be used to support your learning today

Expert Literacy Learner Graphic Organizer

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Today’s Goals

Gain a working understanding of learner variability and how it impacts literacy learning
Understand expert learning as a goal for all literacy learners, in all contexts
Plan for supporting expert literacy learning in your learners
What are your goals?

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Your Learning Environment

Self-Regulate

How can your space better support your engagement?

Perceive

What is the best way for you to perceive the content?

Act

What are your preference today for sharing your thinking?

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Learner Variability

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Learner Variability

Interest
Effort and Resilience
Emotional Well-Being
Perceive Content
Language
Background Knowledge
Physical Navigation Skills
Communication Skills
Executive Function Skills

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Reflect on Your Own or Share in Chat Box

Interest
Effort and Resilience
Emotional Well-Being
Perception of Content
Language
Background Knowledge
Physical Navigation Skills
Communication Skills
Executive Function Skills

What variability in learners are you paying attention to most in hybrid instruction?

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Hybrid Instruction

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UDL Core Concepts

Learner variability is…

the norm
predictable
contextual.

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Expert Learners

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Expert learner

Harriet Shapiro-Barnard,

high school student

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Expert learners set goals.

This made me realize that I need to get better at time management.

I mean, I still learned the Spanish, but I didn’t save enough time to do the other work.

I also need to get more sleep.

—Harriet

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Expert Literacy Learner Graphic Organizer

How has the hybrid environment required your learners to be expert learners?

Expert Literacy Learner Graphic Organizer

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Expert Learner Characteristics

Strategic & Goal-Directed

Formulate plans for learning

Devise effective strategies and tactics to optimize learning

Organize resources and tools to facilitate learning

Monitor their progress

Recognize their strengths and weaknesses as learners

Abandon plans and strategies that are ineffective

Purposeful & Motivated

Are eager for new learning and motivated by the mastery of learning itself

Are goal-directed in their learning

Know how to set challenging learning goals for themselves

Know how to sustain effort and resilience that reaching those goals will require

Monitor and regulate emotional reactions that would be impediments or distractions to successful learning

Resourceful & Knowledgeable

Consider prior knowledge when learning (Make connections to prior learning experiences)

Activate that prior knowledge to identify, organize, prioritize and assimilate new information

Recognize the tools and resources that would help find structure and remember new information

Know how to transform new information into meaningful and usable knowledge

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Reflect on Your Own or Share in Chat Box

How has the hybrid environment required your learners to be expert learners?

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Literacy is the ability to identify, understand, interpret, create, communicate and compute, using printed and written materials associated with varying contexts.

Literacy involves a continuum of learning in enabling individuals to achieve their goals, to develop their knowledge and potential, and to participate fully in their community and wider society.

Source: UNESCO, 2004; 2017

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Expert Readers and Writers are

Goal-Directed

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Expert Learner Characteristics

Strategic & Goal-Directed

Formulate plans for learning

Devise effective strategies and tactics to optimize learning

Organize resources and tools to facilitate learning

Monitor their progress

Recognize their strengths and weaknesses as learners

Abandon plans and strategies that are ineffective

Purposeful & Motivated

Are eager for new learning and motivated by the mastery of learning itself

Are goal-directed in their learning

Know how to set challenging learning goals for themselves

Know how to sustain effort and resilience that reaching those goals will require

Monitor and regulate emotional reactions that would be impediments or distractions to successful learning

Resourceful & Knowledgeable

Consider prior knowledge when learning (Make connections to prior learning experiences)

Activate that prior knowledge to identify, organize, prioritize and assimilate new information

Recognize the tools and resources that would help find structure and remember new information

Know how to transform new information into meaningful and usable knowledge

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Reflect on Your Own or Share in Chat Box

I know my students are goal-directed readers and writers when they...

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Expert readers and writers are goal-directed.

Set daily and weekly goals for their literacy learning.
Personalize goals based on interest and self-assessment.
Reflect on their progress and set new goals.

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Expert readers and writers collaborate and communicate.

Seek feedback on their learning goals.
Share goals with their families to encourage transfer.
Co-design ways to reach their goal through school work and in the home environment.

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Hybrid Instruction

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Strategies

Share, post, revisit and reflect on literacy goals throughout learning.
Keep goals flexible. Avoid including the means in goals to allow for learners to connect in ways that engage them.
Provide choices to reach the goal to encourage risk taking.

Provide observable success criteria so learners can monitor their progress.
Support learners to personalize their goals.
Model achievement of the goals.
Provide feedback respective to each learner’s goals.

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Expert Literacy Learner Graphic Organizer

Revisit the Literacy Expert Learner Graphic Organizer.

Add ideas you have gained from:

the Chat Box
your reflective thinking
the webinar resources

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Expert Learner

Grant Blasko,

high school student

SOURCE: Aut Com Conference 2019, keynote presentation by Grant Blasko, shared with permission / grantblasko.com

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What is your next step...

Share your next steps for supporting learner variability.
Share your next step for supporting expert literacy learners.
Share your next steps for supporting goal-directed learners.

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