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WestEd's Strategic Literacy Initiative uses Reading Apprenticeship, a research-based framework, to improve academic literacy in post-secondary students. Reading Apprenticeship creates a partnership between teachers and students to develop students' reading comprehension and metacognitive skills. It has been implemented in over 35 California community colleges and others across several states. Research on Reading Apprenticeship has found benefits such as increased reading comprehension, student engagement and confidence, and higher retention rates. It also helps teachers develop strategies to better address student reading difficulties and literacy.
Intro Ra Slides
- 1. Strengthening Post-Secondary Student Literacy through Reading Apprenticeship ® http://www.WestEd.org/ReadingApprenticeship
- 2. WestEd’s Strategic Literacy Initiative (SLI ) A professional development and research organization focusing on improving academic literacy in diverse populations of adolescents and post-secondary students using Reading Apprenticeship, a research-based instructional framework.
- 3. Reading Apprenticeship A partnership of expertise between the teacher and students, drawing on what content area teachers know and do as skilled discipline-based readers and on learners’ unique and often underestimated strengths
- 4. Dimensions of Reading Apprenticeship
- 5. What does a Reading Apprenticeship Classroom Look Like? A focus on comprehension and metacognitive conversation A climate of collaboration An emphasis on student independence
- 6. Where is Reading Apprenticeship Implemented? RA is making learning visible in. . . 35+ California community colleges and 10 community colleges in Michigan, Arkansas, Mississippi, Pennsylvania, Texas, Washington and Saskatchewan
- 7. History of Reading Apprenticeship in Community Colleges SPECC Project (Strengthening Pre-Collegiate Education in Community Colleges), Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching 2004-2008 Reading Apprenticeship Leadership Institutes 2006 Faculty Inquiry Groups
- 8. Faculty Inquiry to Improve Teaching and Learning SLI’s Community College Literacy Research Group (CCLRG) Lumina Foundation support for CCLRG 2007-2010 10 community college teachers representing CA, WA, PA, TX, MS English, Science, Developmental Studies, Adult Basic Education, ESL
- 9. Student Outcomes More reading Increased engagement and confidence as readers Development of a range of strategies to support comprehension Higher levels of interaction between and among teachers and students Increased retention
- 10. Teacher Outcomes New ways of looking at student thinking and reading difficulties Wider repertoire of resources and tools for addressing student reading difficulty Increased sense of responsibility for addressing reading and literacy in subject area classes Growth in teacher leadership
- 11. Campus-wide Outcomes Increased student focused interactions with colleagues Campus-wide emphasis on literacy improvement Agreements about a common language and strategic approaches to reading Professional learning communities: inquiry and use of protocols for looking at classroom practices, student work Interactions with other RA practitioners becomes a source of information sharing, learning and support Growth of campus leaders in literacy
- 12. Outcomes of my own classroom research while introducing RA routines: ESL 21B, Fall 2007/Spring 2008: Increase in reading comprehension scores Increase in the variety of reading strategies that students report using Shift in “classroom culture”
- 13. Outcomes of my own classroom research while introducing RA routines: ESL 251B, Fall 2008 Students work with more challenging texts and Produce more interesting and complex writing. Skills-based writing lessons did not produce better grammar or organization than freer written responses to challenging readings.
- 14. Teacher training site and complete research reports: http://tinyurl.com/6oshf4