Connect with Us! Twitter: @KCTE_LA Facebook Pinterest Our Website Newsletter editor: Amy Clancy– WVMS [email protected]Professional Learning + Passionate ELA Teachers = Success in the Classroom is our 2016 Conference theme this year! With the implementation of the new Professional Growth & Evaluation System (PGES) in Kentucky, there is a state -wide push for professional learning in the educational realm. All educators must continually learn to best serve their students and to grow profes- sionally in ways that will positively affect success in the classroom. When teachers combine meaningful, relevant professional learning with passion for content and for helping students reach their goals, success is inevitable! Please join us for the annual conference to get a healthy dose of both professional learning and a renewal of passion. Everyone educator needs that in February! 2016 Kentucky Council of Teachers of English Conference Featured Speakers will include: Colmon Elridge III – former Executive Assistant and Senior Advisor to Governor Steve Beshear, Elridge will open our conference with timely topics in education in Kentucky. Makalani Bandele – Kentucky born writer, musician, minister, and literature/creative writing instructor, Bandele will delight us at lunch on Friday by sharing his work and passion for education. Dr. Cory Brown – Murray State University Professor in the College of Education, Dr. Brown will speak about culturally relevant pedagogy in the opening session on Sat urday. Johnathan Rand – writer of over 75 children’s books since 2000, Rand will share the stage at lunch on Friday, present some of his work, and hold a book signing as well. Robin Burr – a charismatic Kentucky educator who has traveled far and wide, Burr will present on ways to reach children of poverty in non -traditional ways through ma nipulatives that encourage critical thinking, collaboration, and problem-solving. Christopher Epling – award-winning Kentucky illustrator, writer & cartoonist, Epling will present a session on using graphic art and comics to teach the standards and will hold a book signing. Patti Slagle – Professional Trainer and affiliate of the National, Kentucky, and Louisville Writing Projects, Slagle will present a session on using newspaper headlines to teach grammar in context. Make Plans to Join us! Conference Proposals being accepted NOW! Fall 2015
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Professional Learning + Passionate ELA Teachers = Success in the Classroom is our 2016 Conference theme this year! With the implementation of the new Professional Growth &
Evaluation System (PGES) in Kentucky, there is a state-wide push for professional learning in the educational realm. All educators must continually learn to best serve their students and to grow profes-
sionally in ways that will positively affect success in the classroom. When teachers combine meaningful, relevant professional learning with passion for content and for helping students reach their goals,
success is inevitable! Please join us for the annual conference to get a healthy dose of both professional learning and a renewal of passion. Everyone educator needs that in February!
2016 Kentucky Council of Teachers of English Conference Featured Speakers will include:
Colmon Elridge III – former Executive Assistant and Senior Advisor to Governor Steve Beshear, Elridge will open our conference with timely topics in education in Kentucky.
Makalani Bandele – Kentucky born writer, musician, minister, and literature/creative writing instructor, Bandele will delight us at lunch on Friday by sharing his work
and passion for education.
Dr. Cory Brown – Murray State University Professor in the College of Education, Dr. Brown will speak about culturally relevant pedagogy in the opening session on Sat
urday.
Johnathan Rand – writer of over 75 children’s books since 2000, Rand will share the stage at lunch on Friday, present some of his work, and hold a book signing as well.
Robin Burr – a charismatic Kentucky educator who has traveled far and wide, Burr will present on ways to reach children of poverty in non-traditional ways through ma nipulatives that encourage critical thinking, collaboration, and problem-solving.
Christopher Epling – award-winning Kentucky illustrator, writer & cartoonist, Epling will present a session on using graphic art and comics to teach the standards and
will hold a book signing.
Patti Slagle – Professional Trainer and affiliate of the National, Kentucky, and Louisville Writing Projects, Slagle will present a session on using newspaper headlines to teach grammar in context.
Make Plans to Join us! Conference Proposals being accepted NOW!
Hard copies may be mailed to Dr. Judith Szerdahelyi, English Department, Western Kentucky University, 1906 College Heights Blvd. #11086, Bowling Green, KY 42101-1086.
At these sites, students will be introduced to the works of Thoreau, Emerson, Stuart as well as several other sto-
ries set in the wilderness around the world. Outdoorsman’s English will be linked with classrooms around the
state through distance learning, pen pals, book talks, book giveaways and other service learning opportunities.
These projects, as well as many others in the works, will involve students in leadership within the classroom set-
ting.
Before the school year ended last year, some of my junior students were already planning the components of this
new class. They discussed opportunities we needed to explore and formulated a student-led leadership structure
to catch failing peers before they dropped out or could not graduate. Other students read potential novel selec-
tions and gave peers a five-minute book talk in front of the class. Students even combined the idea of a classroom
cookout with reading Macbeth after school and at night. Interestingly, the excitement and engagement I’ve men-
tioned was created just by the thought of this class coming to UCHS. At that time, there was no guarantee the
course would be offered. These same students had been some of my most unmotivated just weeks prior to this
discussion! Teachers, counselors and parents have already noticed the shift in these students!
The stakes have never been higher. Only forty percent of senior students currently enrolled are ready for college
level writing. Only twenty percent are ready for college reading. Yet this class has already created excitement and
a readiness to be brave, lead nations and impact the future generations of Union County!
Recently Kristie Hofelich had the opportunity to attend the NCTE Affiliate Leader-
ship Meeting. The NCTE Annual Convention 2016 will be in Atlanta and will focus
on Advocacy/Action Groups. Below are some Instructional Ideas that Kristie took
away from the San Jose 2015 meeting:
Divide a large set of Legos into Ziplock bags (one per group at tables); give the whole group a task (i.e. build the vehicle for change in your organization) but avoid using specific instructions or restrictions. Pause about 5 minutes in to say that people can feel free to look at what other groups are doing. De-brief at the end: share out at each table, what were challenges, what does this tell you about yourselves and your group members, etc.
Give each student a plain birthday hat; have them decorate with any supplies available to represent themselves Can do group identities as well, like the Peacocks Students share with each other, but not with the whole group (saves time) Use them throughout the year for speaking, listening, accountability, grouping, etc.
Publish a literary journal at school in Journalism, sell them for a fee, publish student AND teacher writing, have online version in the newspaper; get shirts for all senior staff
Do intentional read-alouds of poems that have a specific impact on the audience to set the tone Mary Oliver’s “Crossing the Swamp” Mark Doty's "A Display of Mackerel"
What do we want to achieve as high school seniors if we lived in a world of complete wonder and possibility? Brain-storm as a class on chart paper. Give each person/student several sticky notes, tell them to determine barriers to achieving these goals, one per sticky, five per person; have them place these on "in our control" & "out of control"; categorize them into five themes; decide how to over-come the barriers
Brave up In ELA continued
Union County High School
Have you read David Drennan’s book Sludgefoot? You can