SUBSCRIBE chat center Chatboards|Lessons|Projects|Classifieds|Mailrings|Gazette|Jobs|Harry Wong|Live!|Advertise SUBMIT POST ALL POSTS TOP POSTS Share | Print | Report Post Teachers Chatboard Search Teachers.Net Advanced Quick Links: Set Hot Now... • July 2008 Gazette • Teacher Tech Center • The Lesson Bank Most Popular • Set Your Quick Links • Chat Center • All Chatboards • Lesson Bank • Teacher Mailrings • Project Center • Classified Ads • Live Chat & Meetings Select by • State/Region • Grade Level • Curriculum • Interest Group • Teaching Method Special Topics • Technology • Languages • Hot Topics • Career Center • Distance Learning • Fundraising • Tutoring Center • Teacher's Bookshelf • Free Printables • Classroom Photos • Meeting Archive • Teaching Articles • Library • Web Tools • Webring • Search • Advertise   Re: book study in schools Posted by Heather on 4/30/08 We have completed three book studies in a year and a half. The effect has been amazing! The largest impact has been our elementary teaching staff as a community. We have really gotten to know each other as teachers and as friends. You will see teachers more apt to share their ideas and questions about what they are teaching. My position is an AIS teacher half day and the other half I assist the curriculum coordinator on improving literacy in the elementary grades. I do not have a specific title, but it is similar to a reading coach. Our book studies have mainly been literacy based. The first book we read was: Strategies that Work by Harvey and Goudvis. Most of us were familiar with the work of Debbie Miller and wanted more information about how to build reading comprehension, so we felt this was a good next step. Our second book study was about writer's workshop. We combined two books because we had K-6 teachers and we wanted books that were appropriate to everyone's grade level. The books we used were In the Middle by Nancie Atwell and Growing Readers by Katy Collins. Our third book study was The Daily 5 by Moser and her sister. (her name is escaping me right now) Our third book study was our best book study yet! I think we have grown as a group and people are more comfortable sharing. Again, we built a supporting community of teachers. Our book studies generally ran 1hr 45 min. We would spend the first hour discussing the chapter we read and reviewing the important topics. If we had any video clips or study guide questions, we would go over those. During this first hour we would also share any AH-HA moments. These moments were moments that had occured over the last week when the teacher or student realized something new. Often these were funny and insightful. After the first hour, we would take a break. We always followed the break by sharing "funny teacher stories", as we called it. Someone always had something funny that happened in their room in the past week. This was a time that we all looked forward to each week...it also helped get people back in time, because you did not want to miss the funny story. For the last 30min. or more I would introduce a new lesson idea. I would always look for ideas that related to the past week's reading that teachers could turn around and use the following day. Usually the next week, we would see if anyone used this lesson or idea with their students and share how it went. I would gladly share any information about our book studies, because I feel they are such an asset to the teaching community. Posts on this thread, including this one book study in schools, 4/29/08, by Bess Keller, reporter, Education Week. Re: book study in schools, 4/30/08, by Heather. Re: book study in schools, 5/01/08, by Bess Keller, reporter, Education Week. Re: book study in schools, 5/06/08, by Laurie. Re: book study in schools, 5/06/08, by Bess Keller. Re: book study in schools, 5/06/08, by Bess Keller. Re: book study in schools, 5/24/08, by Nancy. Re: book study in schools, 5/24/08, by Nancy. Re: book study in schools, 6/19/08, by primary teacher.       June: The 30 Days of Teachers.Net (Introduction) 1 The Gazette 2 The Mailrings 3 Harry Wong 4 Lesson Bank 5 Tech Center 6 Teacher Classifieds 7 State Teachers.Net 8 Live Chat & Meetings 9 Teacher Printables 10 Project Center 11 Chatboard Network 12 Share Teachers.Net 13 Your Feedback 14 Interest Groups 15 Administrators.Net 16 Chat Center 17 Streaming Teacher Video 18 Tutoring Center 19 Academic Grants 20 Teachers.Net Bookshelf 21 Chatboard Tips 22 Grade Levels 23 Staffroom Flyer 24 Teachers.Net Archives 25 Hot Topics 26 Language Arts 27 Subject Areas 28 Quick Links 29 Meet Teachers.Net 30 Summer Job Fair

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