LALLI 2013 Day 9 (Thursday, June 20th)

Today, LALLI participants were fortunate enough to have multiple opportunities to make decisions about the topics on which they wanted to focus.

Teachers working cooperatively on goals for their classrooms

This began with the Individual Work Time they were given. Many participants used this individual work time to develop their classroom goals. In addition, the administrators were able to give feedback during this process, which enabled everyone to produce, revise, and revisit their works. Many were even able to create a finished product of not only their goals but also their choices for methods of achieving these goals. This was a great work time!

Amy's "Reading Like A Writer" session

After that, participants were given another choice; they were able to choose a break-out session to attend based on listed topics of focus.

For those LALLI participants who chose the "Reading Like A Writer" session with Amy, there were great rewards to be had! They began by reflecting on someone they admired, which is relevant in the lives of not only adult teachers but also adolescent students, so this is a great strategy to use in the classroom. After that, but before moving into the richer content of the break-out session, Amy creatively connected the activity to a powerful speech delivery by Maya Angelou. The transition from this speech then moved participants into a "turn and talk" where they were able to discuss and produce big ideas and questions before moving into the next part of the lesson.