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8. Refining our Strategies Sharon Walpole Michael C. McKenna Georgia Reading First Professional Development Architects

10. momentum |mō ˈ ment ə m; m ə - 1 Physics, the quantity of motion of a moving body, measured as a product of its mass and velocity. 2 the impetus gained by a moving object : the vehicle gained momentum as the road dipped. 3. the impetus and driving force gained by the development of a process or course of events: the investigation gathered momentum in the spring. [ ORIGIN late 17th cent.: from Latin, from movimentum, from movere ‘to move.’ ]

11. The Cognitive Model Phonological Awareness Decoding and Sight Word Knowledge Print Concepts Fluency in Context Automatic Word Recognition Reading Comprehension Language Comprehension Strategic Knowledge General Purposes for Reading Specific Purposes for Reading Knowledge of Strategies for Reading Vocabulary Knowledge Background Knowledge Knowledge of Text and Sentence Structures

13. Differentiation for All Tier III Intervention Tier II Below Grade Level Instruction At Grade Level Instruction Above Grade Level Instruction Tier I Grade-Level Instruction All children get both Tier I and differentiated instruction – it is not reserved for remediation.

14. PA and Word Recognition Word Recognition and Fluency Fluency and Comprehension Vocabulary & Comprehension A Stairway to Proficiency

15. A Professional Support System TheoryDemonstrationPracticeFeedback Joyce, B., & Showers, B. (2002). Student achievement through staff development. Alexandria, VA: ASCD.

16. A Training Cycle Work with Architects directly Work with specialists to review and plan Work with teachers at school

17. Topics AugustObservation and Feedback SeptemberWord Recognition and Fluency: 3-week plans NovemberFluency and Comprehension: 3-week plans FebruaryVocabulary and Comprehension: 3-week plans

18. Questions 1.How successful were we in providing coaches with what they needed to support teachers? 2.What modifications could we make for next year? – Serve continuing schools – Serve schools not continuing – Serve schools outside of Reading First

20. Lecture Portion of Architect Training

21. Lesson Demonstrations by Architects

22. Video Examples

23. Chapters to Read

24. Follow-up Planning Day

25. Specialists’ Support

26. Specialists’ Support: Most Effective

27. Specialist Support: Least Effective

28. Future Architect Services: Theory

29. Future Architect Services: Demonstration

30. Future Architect Services: Leadership

31. Most Important Future Architect Services

32. What Did We Learn? We can only serve one audience at a time; it would be better to design separate sessions for teachers that had less emphasis on theory We should reformat our work so that it can be accomplished in shorter chunks of time Participants want more lessons and more video