After a decade of leading schoolwide residencies—and with more requests than she can fill—Regie Routman has developed Regie Routman in Residence, a DVD-based literacy project that brings her demonstration teaching into your school and anticipates your literacy professional development needs. In schools in Colorado, Tennessee, and Washington, Regie’s residencies have raised student achievement and boosted test scores, and now she can help your school or district do the same.
Transforming Our Teaching Through Writing for Audience and Purpose takes a whole school through a year of transformation. It leads to new, effective practices that raise students’ writing achievement by improving teachers’ confidence and their ability to teach writing in any genre, in any curriculum. Research shows that high-level, on-site, and ongoing professional development is the surest route to school improvement in literacy, and Transforming Our Teaching Through Writing for Audience and Purpose delivers it directly to your teachers. For more information visit the companion website, http://www.regieroutman.com.
Four Reasons to Use RRIR: Transforming Our Teaching
1. “We have more students that need intervention than teachers to teach them.” RRIR helps principals become instructional leaders while increasing the effectiveness of all teachers, especially in the regular classroom.
2. “We can’t afford to send our teachers offsite for PD.” RRIR is “virtual PD” that’s much more cost favorable than traditional delivery methods and, as it’s self-contained within the building, all the growth comes from within.
3. “We’ve already invested out time and resources into a curriculum program.” RRIR works with all types of materials, including ANY core reading program or writing resource. It helps teachers sort out how to optimize their teacher guides.
4. “We want to set up a PLC but don’t know where to start.” RRIR provides materials and instructions for creating and sustaining a PLC including extensive video of effective literacy practice, professional articles, and step by step activities.
Sessions for Writing for Audience and Purpose
- Welcome to Regie Routman in Residence
- Applying an Optimal Learning Model to Your Teaching
- Examining Our Beliefs About Teaching Writing
- Teachers as Writers
- Planning for Genre Writing
- Immersing Your Students in a Genre
- Demonstrating Writing
- Public Content Conferences
- Negotiating Editing Expectations
- Editing Conferences
- Application of Learning: A Teacher’s Changing Beliefs and Practices
- Changing Beliefs and Practices: A Conversation with a Student
- Celebration of Learning
Assessment Tools for Ongoing Writing Assessment
Components
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A Getting Started Guide packed with tips for planning and facilitating dynamic sessions across the year, special sections for school leaders, suggested schedules, and a DVD
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14 Facilitator’s Guides, one for each session, each including a detailed agenda, discussion questions, weblinks, resources, and viewing charts for the DVD segments that scaffold take-aways for participants to apply in their classrooms
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20 sturdy Professional Development Notebooks for participants, providing session agendas, professional reading, viewing charts that can be personalized, resources, weblinks to independent learning, and more
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2 DVDs with numerous video segments that are the heart of each session
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access to www.regieroutman.com, with video sessions, downloadable professional reading, classroom resources, updates from Regie, message boards for national professional development conversations, and more
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a copy of Teaching Essentials, a cornerstone book of this program
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a durable briefcase for easy organization and portability
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Speakers
- Invite Regie Routman to speak at your school, district, or conference through Heinemann Speakers.
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