Collaborative teacher literacy teams, K-6 : connecting professional growth to student achievement

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Literacy is the foundation of learning and academic achievement. Tasked with teaching literacy skills to students, teachers face a variety of assessment instruments, hundreds of programs and curricula, a vast continuum of students' needs, and a limited amount of time available for professional development to master this sizable body of knowledge and instructional expertise. With all these different components of literacy, planning and delivering effective literacy instruction can be quite overwhelming. Collaborative Teacher Literacy Teams, K-6: Connecting Professional Growth to Student Achievement shows teachers how to work together in their grade-level teams to maximize their literacy learning and make the right instructional and curricular choices for the students in their classrooms.

Collaborative Teacher Literacy Teams, K-6 offers K-6 teams a toolkit for raising student literacy skills. In this companion to Literacy Look-Fors: An Observation Protocol to Guide K-6 Classroom Walkthroughs, author Elaine K. McEwan-Adkins outlines and explores the work of collaborative literacy teams, from their formation to the employment of successful, student-focused strategies. The foundation of this book is the exemplars and nonexemplars of effective K-6 literacy instruction, sixty research-based indicators that describe the core knowledge and skills (curriculum and instruction) of a comprehensive and balanced literacy program. These exemplars are divided into five categories: instructional moves, teacher-managed instruction, teacher with-it-ness, student-managed instruction, and classroom artifacts. Each chapter features four professional growth units dedicated to a category of exemplars, providing educators with the opportunity to discuss key concepts, self-reflect, and remain focused on student achievement. By understanding and applying McEwan-Adkins's research-based exemplars, teams can achieve professional growth.

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Literacy is the foundation of learning and academic achievement. Tasked with teaching literacy skills to students, teachers face a variety of assessment instruments, hundreds of programs and curricula, a vast continuum of students' needs, and a limited amount of time available for professional development to master this sizable body of knowledge and instructional expertise. With all these different components of literacy, planning and delivering effective literacy instruction can be quite overwhelming. Collaborative Teacher Literacy Teams, K-6: Connecting Professional Growth to Student Achievement shows teachers how to work together in their grade-level teams to maximize their literacy learning and make the right instructional and curricular choices for the students in their classrooms.Collaborative Teacher Literacy Teams, K-6 offers K-6 teams a toolkit for raising student literacy skills. In this companion to Literacy Look-Fors: An Observation Protocol to Guide K-6 Classroom Walkthroughs, author Elaine K. McEwan-Adkins outlines and explores the work of collaborative literacy teams, from their formation to the employment of successful, student-focused strategies. The foundation of this book is the exemplars and nonexemplars of effective K-6 literacy instruction, sixty research-based indicators that describe the core knowledge and skills (curriculum and instruction) of a comprehensive and balanced literacy program. These exemplars are divided into five categories: instructional moves, teacher-managed instruction, teacher with-it-ness, student-managed instruction, and classroom artifacts. Each chapter features four professional growth units dedicated to a category of exemplars, providing educators with the opportunity to discuss key concepts, self-reflect, and remain focused on student achievement. By understanding and applying McEwan-Adkins's research-based exemplars, teams can achieve professional growth.

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Instructional moves -- Teacher-managed instruction -- Teacher with-it-ness -- Student-managed learning -- Classroom artifacts -- Appendix A: the exemplars and nonexemplars of effective K-6 literacy instruction -- Appendix B: table of contents for the twenty units.