Reading Specialist Spring 2017
LE 1: Reading Leadership
E-tivity 1: Share a Reading Experience
- Personalized reading activities based on student interests (Denise)
- Continuum of Literacy Learning (Tara)
- Visualizing lesson (Erin)
- Daily 5 Guided Reading (Christine)
- Cross-class student groupings based on reading needs (Carrie)
- Levelled Literacy Intervention (intensive, small-group reading & writing support)- (Kelly)
- Raz-kids (Andrea, Matt)
- Pre-Referral Intervention Manual (PRIM) and technology (google read & write) to differentiate reading assessment (Kyle)
- Reading response journals (Leslie)
- Visualizing & point of view activity (Kay)
- Differentiation in reading instruction & assessment through guided reading and interventions for struggling readers (Natalie)
- Individual intensive one-on-one intervention for struggling reader focusing on targeting specific reading needs (Katie)
- Reading Recovery (Maria)
- Assessment as learning-checklists, success criteria (Carrie)
- Student engagement-student-driven reading (texts and activities that were meaningful)-(Susan)
E-tivity 2-Reading Leadership
E-tivity 3-Leadership Styles
Charismatic
- charm and grace
- self-belief
- pays full attention to person they are talking to, in the moment
- persuasive
- builds image of the group
Transformational
- inspires others
- puts passion and energy into everything
- starts with a vision they believe in
- show how others should behave by actions and attitudes
- effort to motivate others
Situational
- factors affect how he/she leads
- bases actions on others' effort, motivation, knowledge, organization & structure of work, group cohesion
- focus on relationships, managing group demands and culture of group
Transactional
- people are motivated by reward and punishment
- people must cede all authority to the manager
- creates clear structures and rewards
- based on contingency
Quiet
- actions speak louder than words
- people are motivated when you give them credit rather than take it yourself
- often play the “values card” to persuade others
Servant
- leader has responsibility for the followers
- responsibility towards society
- wants to help others by leading them
- serving others by helping them achieve and improve
- empathetic, trusting, healing, personal growth
Participative
- involvement of group in decision making so people are committed to it
- collaborative when working together, social commitment is higher
- consultation
- democratic
- power-sharing
e4: Case Study Mentoring
Roles of Mentor
Mentors take on 3 key roles:
1. Consultant: offering support and providing resources
2. Collaborator: creating challenge and encouraging learning
3. Coach: facilitating the teacher’s vision
Their role is non-evaluative. You offered some key ideas that would help make the mentorship successful:
· Acknowledge feelings
· Ask how I can support her?
· List her needs/what she wants to work on
· Make suggestions for starting points
· Help facilitate a meeting with Mrs. Reeves
· Focus on the positives
· Develop trust
· Provide encouragement
· Active listening
· Establish goals
· Set up regular meetings
· Collaborate (including with the resource teacher)àmodel, co-plan & co-teach
· focus on planning with the end in mind
· share assessment strategies, tools, ideas
· determine special education needs and ensure accommodations and/or modifications are in place
· establish home communication with Barry’s mother
· differentiate instruction and assessment
· arrange for in-class support with resource teacher
If you had the opportunity, what initiative(s) could you put in place to support new teachers to your school? Your school district?
Reading Leadership
- formal or informal
- small, powerful practices
- walk the talk
- open-minded
- respectful
- courageous
- promote and initiate change
- empower others
- best practices
- focus on students first
- mobilize
- get commitment from others though their leadership vision
- collaborate
- decisive
- optimistic
- enthusiastic
- confident