Gold School Program
This virtual reading program provides a whole school approach to teaching reading. Regular webinars and a Facebook group provide ongoing support. Video lessons show teachers ‘how to’ deliver lessons.
Online Training Includes:
- Reading & comprehension strategies
- Phonics & Grammar
- Grouping for guided reading and learning centres
- Learning Centres: Ideas for the rest of the class during guided reading
- Reading Assessment to inform guided reading
- An array of video demonstration lessons
- Guided Reading: Planning a lesson, key elements, demonstration lessons, avoiding ‘Round Robin Reading’
Features
- Whole school training to ensure your staff are teaching reading consistently across the school
- Self-paced online learning that can be done individually or in teams
- Ongoing support through Regular ‘Ask me anything? Webinars
- Ongoing support through a Facebook support group
- A step by step process to implement shared reading, guided reading, assessment and learning centres
- Bite size training to fit into teachers’ busy schedules
- Reading strategies explained in an understandable manner
- Video demonstration lessons of reading strategies that teachers can watch with students
- Lesson plans to easily implement training
- A structure for planning and teaching that is ongoing and easily implemented
- Video demonstration lessons of guided reading, learning centres and reading assessment
- Certificate of hours of professional development
Benefits
- Imagine better reading outcomes for all students at your school
- Imagine improved student behaviour because they are successful and engaged
- Imagine a consistent reading program taught across your whole school
- Envisage guided reading lessons where reading strategies are explicitly taught
- Envisage parents complaining because their child is reading too much
- Envisage staff teaching reading collegially
- Visualise new staff can easily doing the online training and effortlessly implementing your school’s approach to reading
- Visualise other principals asking your advice on improving reading outcomes
- Picture teachers constantly excited about teaching reading
- Picture teachers having time for deep and ongoing professional development
- Picture having more time for yourself, family and friends because your whole school reading program is not draining all your time and energy