Ebedded Professional Development: Bringing Content Reading Strategies to Rural Appalachian Middle Schools
Format
Poster Presentation
Location
Harborside Center
Strand #1
Academic Achievement & School Leadership
Strand #2
Family & Community
Relevance
Often teachers struggle to find effective and intriguing strategies to engage and improve student academic achievement. Morehead State University, in Appalachian Kentucky, has a 23 county service region, meaning that many of our schools are physically located over 100 miles from the university. By bringing embedded professional development to three districts' middle schools, both teachers and students benefit. This grant funded project provided high poverty rural schools with with week long professional development, a virtual learning community, and onsite coaching and co-teaching.
This project meets Strand 1 as it is designed to promote acedmic achievement in reading.
This project addresses Strand 2 as it focuses on the specific comunnity and cultural needs of the school districts involved.
Brief Program Description
An increased focus on literacy across content areas inspired this project to provide on-site professional development and coaching to rural at-risk middle schools.
Summary
Often teachers struggle to find effective and intriguing strategies to engage and improve student academic achievement. Morehead State University, in Appalachian Kentucky, has a 23 county service region, meaning that many of our schools are physically located over 100 miles from the university. By bringing embedded professional development to the districts' middl schools, both teachers and students benefit. This grant funded project provided high poverty rural schools with with week long professional development, a virtual learning community, and onsite coaching and co-teaching.
Effective middle grades literacy methods and strategies will be shared.
Evidence
This presentation shares three years of completedresearch working with middle grades teachers.
Biographical Sketch
Jody Fernandez, PhD., is an associate professor of literacy in the department of Midde Grades and Secondary Education at Morehead State University in rural Eastern Kentucky. Her interests including improving adolsecent literacy practices via engaging and effective activies and strategies.
Keyword Descriptors
literacy, content area, rural, Appalachian, at-risk
Presentation Year
2016
Start Date
3-8-2016 4:00 PM
End Date
3-8-2016 5:30 PM
Recommended Citation
Fernandez, Jody A., "Ebedded Professional Development: Bringing Content Reading Strategies to Rural Appalachian Middle Schools" (2016). National Youth Advocacy and Resilience Conference. 167.
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/nyar_savannah/2016/2016/167
Ebedded Professional Development: Bringing Content Reading Strategies to Rural Appalachian Middle Schools
Harborside Center
An increased focus on literacy across content areas inspired this project to provide on-site professional development and coaching to rural at-risk middle schools.
