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Graduate Course Featured Speaker Keynote Session Featured Session- This session will demonstrate how to motivate and engage the whole learner. Participants will be equipped with ways to incorporate curriculum (i.e., ELA standards & strategies), assessment (i.e., higher-order teacher talk, behavior indicators,), and the elements of rigorous instruction (i.e., effective techniques, gradual release of responsibility) focusing on word study: phonological awareness, phonics, fluency, language: vocabulary, and comprehension. Participants will leave transformed with easy to implement reading strategies which support all learners to…

Graduate Course Featured Speaker

Keynote Session

Featured Session- This session will demonstrate how to motivate and engage the whole learner. Participants will be equipped with ways to incorporate curriculum (i.e., ELA standards & strategies), assessment (i.e., higher-order teacher talk, behavior indicators,), and the elements of rigorous instruction (i.e., effective techniques, gradual release of responsibility) focusing on word study: phonological awareness, phonics, fluency, language: vocabulary, and comprehension. Participants will leave transformed with easy to implement reading strategies which support all learners to reach academic success.

Session Outcomes:

• Analyze the composition of the Whole Learner using multiple intelligences to motivate and engage the whole learner.

• Explore a curriculum, assessment, and rigorous instruction in a comprehensive literacy (i.e., reading, writing, listening, speaking, language) classroom

Apply strategies, instructional techniques, and “teacher talk” to enhance motivation and engagement in order to support learners in experiencing deeper meaning for higher student achievement