Inquiry-to-Action Team:
Literacy Practices in the Inclusive Classroom (PreK-5)
October 24, 2014
(Welcome and please fill out a name tent. If you remember to turn them in to us at the end of the session, we will remember to bring them back next time.)
9:00-9:20 Introduction and Read aloud
9:20-9:45 Guest Speaker Sarah Schlessinger: Teachers College Inclusive Classrooms Project and the inquiry to action team process
9:45-10:15 Nicole Moskal- Her journey through the inquiry process and her presentation
10:15-10:30 Break
10:30-11:00 Community Builder: Powerful Learning
11:00-11:30 Barriers or Bridges: A Matter of Perspective and Attitude Protocol
11:30- 12:00 I Can’t Do This But I Can Do That
12:00-1:00 Working Lunch
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Please take this time to get yourself something to eat and to read the article Questioning “Normal”: Seeing
Children First and Labels Second
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Use the chart to record your thinking as you go
1:00-1:35 The Pedagogical Dilemma of Difference
1:35-1:45 3-2-1 Exit Ticket: 3 reflections on the day’s workshop, 2 things to takeaway to your own classroom, 1 hope for the next workshop
1:45-2:00 Wrap-up/homework
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Homework:
1. Data collection sheet to keep track of students who do not appear to have access to the literacy curriculum.
2. Bring an artifact (piece of student work, audio or video, pictures, anecdote, etc.) related to one of the students you suspect does not have access.
See you November 21, 2014!