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April 2022
2022 OABSE Midwest Conference – Executive Function: The Key to Reading Proficiency
Proficient reading is perhaps the most critical of all academic skills. But what does it mean to be a proficient reader? Proficient readers engage deeply with texts, collect and evaluate textual evidence, and attend to important text features. Such readers are also self-aware: they understand that they need to make these processes conscious and that they have active control over them. This session brings together the work of two of today’s top education experts—Margaret Searle (executive function) and Harvey Silver…
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Solving the Problems of Problem-Based Learning: Underdeveloped Information-Management Skills
Problem-based learning requires students to become researchers, as the ability to collect and organize large amounts information is central to successful problem solving. Of course, these critical information-management skills are not limited to problem-based learning. Students who know how to collect, organize, and make sense of information will be far more successful in today’s information age than the students who lack these skills—no matter what the context. This webinar, led by expert teacher and coach, Joyce Jackson, is all about…
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Executive Function: The Key to Reading Proficiency
Proficient reading is perhaps the most critical of all academic skills. But what does it mean to be a proficient reader? Proficient readers engage deeply with texts, collect and evaluate textual evidence, and attend to important text features. Such readers are also self-aware: they understand that they need to make these processes conscious and that they have active control over them. Drawing on Margaret Searle's extensive work with executive function, Dr. Harvey Silver will show participants how to use executive…
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Executive Function: The Key to Reading for Understanding – Day 1 of 2
Presented by Harvey Silver & Margaret Searle
Reading for understanding is a skill that impacts students’ success not only in ELA, but across all content areas. But what does it take to read for understanding? Research shows that strong readers use a battery of strategies before, during, and after reading to help themselves make sense of texts. They preview and predict in advance. They read actively, making note of key ideas. They monitor their comprehension along the way and reflect on their thinking after they’re done. In…
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Executive Function: The Key to Reading for Understanding – Day 2 of 2
Presented by Harvey Silver & Margaret Searle
Reading for understanding is a skill that impacts students’ success not only in ELA, but across all content areas. But what does it take to read for understanding? Research shows that strong readers use a battery of strategies before, during, and after reading to help themselves make sense of texts. They preview and predict in advance. They read actively, making note of key ideas. They monitor their comprehension along the way and reflect on their thinking after they’re done. In…
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