Workshop+1--Part+I

** TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 2012 **
Central Wesleyan, Rocky Mount, NC
 * Tentative Agenda **

Participants arrive by 8:45 a.m. Please sit with your group members (see home page for groups).

1. Welcome & Orientation (9:00 a.m.- 9:10; Andy & Carol)

2. Defining the Focus: What Is Literacy Activity (9:10 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.; Carl)

3. Brief Wiki Orientation (10:00 a.m. - 10:10 a.m., Carl et al, as needed)

4. Take a Look: What do you notice? (10:10 - 10:20 a.m.; Carol)

//~5-Minute Stretch Break~//

5. Guiding Principles for English Language Arts (ELA) Instruction (10:20 a.m. - 11:20 a.m.; Carol et al)
 * Broadened Definitions and Description of Literacy / Literacies in 21st Century
 * Process Matters
 * Wonders of Workshop as an Organizational & Pedagogical Opportunity
 * Power of Peers, Collaboration, & Learning as Social Activity
 * Meeting the Needs of Individual Students
 * Energizing Experiences Expand Literacy
 * Literature Reflects and Expands Life
 * Language, Life, and G.U.M.
 * Inquiry to Question and Learn
 * Technology / Technologies and the 21st Century
 * Literacies of Disciplines

6. Questions/Observations (11:20 - 11:30 a.m.)

~ Lunch Break ~