A course will be offered during the months of January and February around the book "Disrupting Thinking" by Kylene Beers and Robert Probst.
This course will be a hybrid of face to face meetings, online modules, and Twitter chats.
The face to face meetings will be held from 4:30 PM-6:30 PM on the dates below:
- January 9th
- February 6th
- February 27th
There will be two Twitter chats from 8:00 PM-9:00 PM on January 23rd and February 13th.
The remainder of the course will be self-paced online modules. The course is eligible for 1 credit, and you may apply for TQ funds if you have not done so yet this year.
We will be securing the books through a bulk order, so you may purchase a copy at a discounted rate. If you are interested in participating in this course, please complete the form below. This does not obligate you to take the course, but will give us an idea of how many books to order.
In their hit books Notice and Note and Reading Nonfiction, Kylene Beers and Bob Probst showed teachers how to help students become close readers. Now, in Disrupting Thinking they take teachers a step further and discuss an on-going problem: lack of engagement with reading. They explain that all too often, no matter the strategy shared with students, too many students remain disengaged and reluctant readers. The problem, they suggest, is that we have misrepresented to students why we read and how we ought to approach any text - fiction or nonfiction.
With their hallmark humor and their appreciated practicality, Beers and Probst present a vision of what reading and what education across all the grades could be. Hands-on-strategies make it applicable right away for the classroom teacher, and turn-and-talk discussion points make it a guidebook for school-wide conversations. In particular, they share new strategies and ideas for helping classroom teachers:
--Create engagement and relevance
--Encourage responsive and responsible reading
--Deepen comprehension
--Develop lifelong reading habits
“We think it’s time we finally do become a nation of readers, and we know it’s time students learn to tell fake news from real news. It’s time we help students understand why how they read is so important,” explain Beers and Probst. “Disrupting Thinking is, at its heart, an exploration of how we help students become the reader who does so much more than decode, recall, or choose the correct answer from a multiple-choice list. This book shows us how to help students become the critical thinkers our nation needs them to be."
