1. Gateways to Literacy and Diverse Learners
Keynote: Dr. Rosalie Fink
Inspiring reading success; Interest and motivation in the age of high-stakes testing
Success breeds success. Capturing our students’ interests and guiding their special skills and strengths into successful learning experiences can, potentially, motivate the most reluctant of learners, English language learners and students with special needs.
The presentation will focus on the question of how individuals with severe reading problems master reading and succeed in their life pursuits. Prof. Fink addresses this fascinating question and proposes a model that motivates reading in all students.
Workshops:
- High Interest Reading Leaves No Child Behind
- Invitational Education: Enhancing Self-Regard and Academic Success
- Teaching the 2e (Twice Exceptional) Learner
- Starting with a Story: Creating Organic Curriculum
- Multicultural Classrooms: Teaching Linguistically and Culturally Diverse Students
- Multicultural Literature
- Gifted Learners
- Using Picture Books in the Content Areas
- Emergent Literacy
2. Telling Our Stories
Keynote: Dr. Shelley Hong Xu
Using Popular Culture Texts to Engage Students in Meaningful Literacy Learning
Telling our stories in the classrooms opens up the learning process on several levels: by creating space for each of our students’ stories to be heard, we raise their voices as well as foster a sense of self-worth and acceptance. Shared personal stories also create community and strengthen personal relationships. Using personal stories as reading/writing curriculum stimulates students’ interest. Our students feel safe, our classrooms become inclusive and the curriculum is relevant to learners’ lives, promoting and motivating learning.
Dr. Xu will present the rationales for integrating popular culture texts into literacy curriculum and ways of using these texts to engage students.
Workshops:
- Using Popular Culture Texts to Engage Students in Critical Literacy Practices
- Telling Our Stories – Shinnecock panel
- Environmental Science and Math for Students with Special Needs (field experience)
- Engaging Learners with Poetry Writing Across the Curriculum
- Using Hip-Hop Culture as Tool for Student Learning and Critical Thinking
- Environmental Science
- Reading with Children and Parents
- Getting to Know You – portraiture workshop
3. Technology as a Gateway to Literacy
Keynote: Steven Goodman
Teaching Critical Literacy Through Video Production; Transforming Struggling Learners into Active Producers
Many of today’s students find it difficult and/or irrelevant to focus on our traditional curriculums and practices. To create interest, motivation and more potential for success, as well as to enhance critical thinking, we can bring in modalities from their lives (popular texts, computers, video production, hip-hop), or take our classrooms into their spaces. Engagement is practically “built-in”.
Goodman will discuss the practices, principles, and transformative power of student-centered video production as a tool for teaching critical literacy to struggling learners. He will describe successful literacy strategies for building students’ skills and new identities as writers, researchers, interviewers, editors, camera operators, artists, and storytellers.
Workshops:
- Educational Video Center: Video Production as a Segue to Learning
- Brain Gym
- Environmental Science and Math for Students with Special Needs (field experience)
- Social Justice, Curriculum and Technology
- Family Literacy Night
- Yoga for the Classroom
- Stress Management in the Classroom
- Literacy Across the Content Areas: Relating Fiction and Nonfiction Titles to Various Subject Areas.
4. Social-Emotional Learning
Keynote: Dr. Devin Thornburg
The Pendulum Swings Back: Social Emotional Learning and Literacy
Dr. Thornburg will address current efforts to create a social emotional framework for curriculum in schools, reviewing recent literacy-related research, policy and practice that support this perspective. As a strong response to the exclusive emphasis on cognitive-academic outcomes in No Child Left Behind and related legislation, this framework offers great promise in recognizing the "whole child" within literacy education.
Workshops:
- On Stage with SEL
- SEL in the Elementary Classroom: Approaches and Practices for Today’s Classroom
- Environmental Science and Math for Students with Special Needs (field experience)
- Adolescent Dilemmas in Literature
- From the SEL Bookshelf
- Storyboarding
- Learning Styles
5. Aesthetic Education as a Gateway to Literacy
Keynote: Neil Waldman
The Power of Journals
The use of literature, art, music, as well as other efferent experiences, open up the imagination and bring into play intelligences that are usually not allowed into the classroom. Learners may find better connections to literacy learning as their senses and bodies interact with different art forms.
Workshops:
- Film, Music and Visual Arts as Vehicles for Understanding and Expanding our World
- Literacy and the Arts
- Literacy Meets the Arts, Senses and Imagination
- Aesthetic Education as a Tool to Promote and Motivate Literacy Learning for ALL Learners
- Professional Theater Company, HS Students: Spoken Word: Today's Window to Student Expression
- Literacy and Dance
- Weaving It All Together: Our Projects, Summations and Thoughts
Contact
For additional information, please contact:
Literacy Institute
Ruth S. Ammon School of Education
Harvey Hall, Room 130
Adelphi University
1 South Avenue
Garden City, NY 11530
p - 516.877.4085
f - 516.877.4097
e - literacyinstitute@adelphi.edu
Dr. Elite Ben-Yosef
p - 516-877-4676
e - ben-yosef@adelphi.edu
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Professor Anita Frey
p - 516-877-4103
e - frey@adelphi.edu
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Stacy Barbato
p - 516-877-4085
e - barbato@adelphi.edu
Ethan Wivietsky
e - wiviee@alum.rpu.edu
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