Description
- To encourage visualization of text
- Strategies to help students comprehend content
- How to build literacy through judicious vocabulary
- How to shape active, independent reading
Presenter Bio
Dr. Katherine McKnight is a dynamic presenter, dedicated teacher, and award-winning author. Dr. McKnight began her career in education over 30 years ago as a middle school and high school English and social studies teacher in the Chicago Public Schools and appointed as Distinguished Professor of Research at National Louis University. In addition to speaking at professional development conferences, she is a regular consultant in schools and classrooms in the United States and Europe.
She is the founder of Engaging Learners, an educational company built around her successful Literacy and Learning Center model. Her work in educational leadership, literacy and student skill development has resulted in unprecedented academic achievement in many struggling schools.
Dr. McKnight has received several awards for her publications and teaching at the university level. She has authored 17 books that support educational strategies to engage all learners. Her titles include the best-selling The Teacher’s Big Book of Graphic Organizers, winner of the 2013 Teachers’ Choice Award. She’s also written The Second City Guide to Improv in the Classroom, Teaching Writing in the Inclusive Classroom, and the twin volumes: Common Core Literacy for Math, Science, and Technical Subjects, and Common Core Literacy for ELA, History/Social Studies, and the Humanities: Strategies to Deepen Content Knowledge – Grades 6-12.
Narda – PROSPER ISD (verified owner) –
Overall the course was great!
Joseph – LOS FRESNOS CISD (verified owner) –
All of the links and QR codes were broken and the videos that were necessary for the responses were of very poor quality. Also, the quiz questions for this unit relied on placing words of a sentence into a very specific order, sometimes 40 minutes or more after having heard/seen them. This made the quiz taking process very annoying and frustrating.
Esperanza – CLEAR CREEK ISD (verified owner) –
Presenter provided multiple strategies and examples to use across all subjects through literacy. Many examples and structures of lessons were intermediate/high school level, which I needed to hear how that would look for elementary students.
Ashley – CONROE ISD (verified owner) –
I enjoyed the course. It can be used for lower elementary with some adaptations.
Kathleen – SANDUSKY CITY (verified owner) –
Good strategies presented in this course
Alma – SHARYLAND ISD (verified owner) –
The course provides good information.
Melissa – SHARYLAND ISD (verified owner) –
Great information
ROBIN – BOERNE ISD (verified owner) –
I liked the strategies presented in this course. The videos modeled the strategies and they will be easy to put into practice.
Nahuel – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
It was great.
Stacy – DRIPPING SPRINGS ISD (verified owner) –
This class was very intriguing and interesting. Great activities to use!