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.
Elizabeth – MIDLOTHIAN ISD (verified owner) –
The session is filled with a lot of great tools for you to use in your classroom.
Elsa – SHARYLAND ISD (verified owner) –
Great strategies for literacy acquisition. I would like to see how can we implement these strategies at lower elementary.
Monica – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
very informative
Martha – RIESEL ISD (verified owner) –
strategies Great for high school teachers.
Anel – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –
This is great training. Gives plenty of real world implementations of her strategies in the secondary classroom.
Alyssa – SHARYLAND ISD (verified owner) –
Great
Roxana – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Excellent tips to implement in the classroom.
Lee – ECTOR COUNTY ISD (verified owner) –
I’ve done a few of these courses over the last few years for my GT updates, this is hands down the bet one. She’s interesting, has a few goofy jokes, but most importantly this module contains practical strategies to integrate content literacy into multiple academic disciplines.
Janet – MIAMI EAST LOCAL (verified owner) –
It was more related to other content areas than ELA itself, but there were good strategies and techniques. I highly recommend this for content-area teachers.
Michelle – PROSPER ISD (verified owner) –
This course should not be recommended for all elementary teachers. The course is for upper elementary and beyond. The course took over 3 hours. I started at 6:28pm and just finished the last quiz at 9:53pm without stopping for any breaks. There were 12 reflective questions to complete and 3 quizzes as well as a course survey. Please value our time as teachers. The content was good if you teach upper elementary and beyond.