Professional Learning Communities- ECI 508

During PLCs we use the first 10-15 minutes of each weekly meeting to address grade level SMART goals. Most of these SMART goals are address towards comprehension, phonics, writing, and vocabulary. In my ECI I learned the importance of Professional Learning Communities and the desired outcomes from these meetings. These meetings also help teachers in our school to become teacher leaders within the school. Teacher leaders help lead these mini professional developments in their PLCs.

Writing Mini Professional Development Strategies in PLCs- ECI 509

A writing frame consists of a skeleton outline to scaffold children's writing. The skeleton framework consists of different key words or phrases. Writing frames give student's a structure within which they can concentrate on communicating what they want to say, rather than getting lost in the form. While taking ECI 509 I created a Livebinder to keep all the wonderful resources I found and learned from this class.

Writing Livebinder

Teacher Modeling Writing

Learn ways to teach Metacognition

Professional Development for Literacy- ECI 544 and 543

Focus on Phonics and Guided Reading with training on Fundations and Fountas and Pinnell. Provide teachers with training on how to teach word patterns and how to teach an effective guided reading lesson. Using information learned from ECI 544 and 543 our school chose to use Fountas and Pinnell to help train our teachers on guided reading groups. Due to time restraints and other professional development focuses our school administrators opted to use a program called Fundations to help K-2 teachers with the instruction of phonics and phonological awareness. County curriculum coaches help with offering these workshops.