Win, Win ! Finding Experiences for Preservice Teachers while addressing the Summer Reading Gap
Format
Individual Presentation
First Presenter's Institution
Dalton State College
First Presenter’s Email Address
jmesco@daltonstate.edu
First Presenter's Brief Biography
Jacquelyn Mesco taught in the oldest public Montessori school in Georgia, Charles Ellis Academy, prior to accepting her position at Dalton State College. She teaches reading courses in the School of Education and is certified in Orton-Gillingham and LETRS. She earned her Reading Specialist and Doctorate at Georgia Southern University.
Second Presenter's Institution
Dalton State College
Second Presenter’s Email Address
jejohnson@daltonstate.edu
Location
Session Eight Breakouts
Strand #1
Home: Family & Community Engagement
Strand #2
Head: Academic Achievement & Leadership
Relevance
Win, Win! Finding Experiences for Preservice Teachers while addressing the Summer Reading Gap will explain how a situation was developed to provide a field experience for preservice teachers during the summer months and a literacy camp for children in four public schools that were in danger of slipping through the cracks during the summer. Preservice teachers were able to teach elementary students for two weeks and covered eight different genres during the camp. The preservice teachers were able to improve reading fluency and vocabulary while also building capacity for reading comprehension.
Brief Program Description
How do you get preservice teachers ready for the classroom and help children grow as readers while they are out of school for the summer? Win, Win! Finding Experiences for Preservice Teachers while addressing the Summer Reading Gap will provide the steps and methods developed to create the program, the results, and the next steps for the upcoming summer.
Summary
How do you get preservice teachers ready for the classroom and help children grow as readers while they are out of school for the summer? Win, Win! Finding Experiences for Preservice Teachers while addressing the Summer Reading Gap will provide the steps and methods developed to create the program, the results, and the next steps for the upcoming summer. The program will be described from the beginning of the first summer to the current model used. The presentation will describe the buy-in from school systems and principals as well as from parents. The presentation will also explain how the camp was embedded into a summer Children’s Literature class including templates for lesson plans, coaching notes, and created assessments to measure the growth in students.
Evidence
The presentation will share assessment results and information from preservice teacher focus groups. The information is both qualitative and quantitative in nature. The summer project has been working with students for several years and provides a chance for young teachers to practice their craft. The students increased in reading fluency as well as vocabulary and reading comprehension.
Learning Objective 1
develop their own summer program for reading.
Learning Objective 2
see results of the assessments used.
Learning Objective 3
see how we partnered with local stakeholders and developed the program.
Keyword Descriptors
summer slide, teacher prep programs, literacy, summer camp
Presentation Year
2022
Start Date
3-9-2022 9:45 AM
End Date
3-9-2022 11:00 AM
Recommended Citation
Mesco, Jacquelyn L. and Johsnon, JAnet, "Win, Win ! Finding Experiences for Preservice Teachers while addressing the Summer Reading Gap" (2022). National Youth Advocacy and Resilience Conference. 83.
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/nyar_savannah/2022/2022/83
Win, Win ! Finding Experiences for Preservice Teachers while addressing the Summer Reading Gap
Session Eight Breakouts
How do you get preservice teachers ready for the classroom and help children grow as readers while they are out of school for the summer? Win, Win! Finding Experiences for Preservice Teachers while addressing the Summer Reading Gap will provide the steps and methods developed to create the program, the results, and the next steps for the upcoming summer.