Professional Learning Solutions
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.
Schedule
Available by request at your site, please contact us for a pricing quote and to set dates that work for you
Included Course Materials
- Our best-selling book, Reading for Understanding
- A binder of professional readings
- Classroom implementation materials
Nika Hogan ⋅ mhogan@wested.org