three point is teaching project builds on the idea that kids are gonna be more
motivated to read
if they see an authentic purpose for reading
and also this project positions kids who traditionally been seen from a deficit standpoint
and export
so
which howling and they're experts and they we have up to those expectations
lather thing and being told that they can treat are feeling like they can in
this project fifth and sixth grade students have been identified for title one
prepare reading lessons for first graders
each intermediate student has two or three first graders as students
to prepare for each lesson the students and i brainstorm things that their previous reading
teachers had done with them and reading lessons
and then we talked about ways that
those reading lessons helped or maybe didn't help them so much
and we looked at ways to revise those kinds of professional development component for the
apprentice teachers one of the things that idea this took pictures during each lesson and
i also videotaped some of the lessons
and afterwards we debriefed and i asked them to look at the pictures and what
was going on during that picture and they did some reflective writing
on another occasion we watched video of themselves and their peers teaching and they critiqued
each other they did the three pluses and the wish activity and they really helped
each other figure out how to handle things like and they all feel like they
would really like to be in the apprentice teacher project again
and they feel like they've read a lot more than they would have otherwise they
also become much more aware of the miscues that they make and the how important
is to think about miscues and think about making self corrections
they're taking a lot more ownership and responsibility for their own reading and definitely becoming
experts as readers