Professional Development
College
Cross-Discipline Faculty Seminar
What You Learn
- How to use Reading Apprenticeship as an instructional framework
- How to recognize and model for students the reading strategies you use as an expert reader in your subject area
- How to build students’ willingness and capacity to read more, and more-rigorous texts
- How to accelerate students’ subject area learning and literacy, simultaneously
- How to engage students in understanding their own thinking processes—the power of metacognition
- How to foster learning dispositions of persistence, problem solving, and collaboration
- How to use reading for writing
- How to step away from “delivering” content and move students toward independence
Nika Hogan ⋅ mhogan@wested.org
Who Should Participate
- Higher-ed (university, college, community and technical college) instructors of all subject areas and levels*
*Are you a STEM instructor? Consider taking our STEM Faculty Seminar.
Next
Scheduled
Seminar
Available by request at your site, please contact us to set dates that work for you
Cost
Please contact us for pricing
Included Course Materials
- Our best-selling book, Reading for Understanding
- A binder of professional readings
- Classroom implementation materials
Nika Hogan ⋅ mhogan@wested.org