Professional Development and Event Calendar
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The Manitoba Reading Association is pleased to share professional development events happening in Manitoba related to literacy hosted by MRA-affiliated councils and other groups who support literacy. If you have an event you'd like to post, please contact us.
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Local Councils
THE MANITOBA COUNCIL OF READING CLINICIANS PRESENTS
Dr. Melissa Skoczylas
Assessment and Instruction of Students with Language-Based Learning Difficulties:
Language and Literacy Connections
Friday, October 6, 2017
Join us for a dynamic full day workshop with Dr. Melissa Skoczylas- Speech-Language Pathologist, researcher, author and award-winning Instructor of Language and Literacy in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders at the University of Alberta. While working as a speech-language pathologist with school-aged children, Dr. Skoczylas developed a strong interest in the development of children’s literacy skills. In 2011, she returned to the University of Alberta to pursue her interest and obtained her Ph.D. from the University of Alberta. Dr. Skoczylas’s current research focuses on the relationship between oral language skills and reading comprehension among school- aged children with language difficulties.
In this workshop, Dr. Skoczylas will discuss how a deeper understanding of language can be used to assist with literacy development in the area of reading comprehension. She will describe the importance of language related to reading comprehension and literacy skill acquisition with curriculum-based tools and strategies for the classroom. Evidence-based principles that connect language and literacy to instruction will be addressed. Reading clinicians, resource teachers, EAL teachers and K-6 classroom teachers will all benefit from the information that Dr. Skoczylas shares with us about the relationship between language and literacy.
For more information, please download the flyer and registration form.
Dr. Melissa Skoczylas
Assessment and Instruction of Students with Language-Based Learning Difficulties:
Language and Literacy Connections
Friday, October 6, 2017
Join us for a dynamic full day workshop with Dr. Melissa Skoczylas- Speech-Language Pathologist, researcher, author and award-winning Instructor of Language and Literacy in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders at the University of Alberta. While working as a speech-language pathologist with school-aged children, Dr. Skoczylas developed a strong interest in the development of children’s literacy skills. In 2011, she returned to the University of Alberta to pursue her interest and obtained her Ph.D. from the University of Alberta. Dr. Skoczylas’s current research focuses on the relationship between oral language skills and reading comprehension among school- aged children with language difficulties.
In this workshop, Dr. Skoczylas will discuss how a deeper understanding of language can be used to assist with literacy development in the area of reading comprehension. She will describe the importance of language related to reading comprehension and literacy skill acquisition with curriculum-based tools and strategies for the classroom. Evidence-based principles that connect language and literacy to instruction will be addressed. Reading clinicians, resource teachers, EAL teachers and K-6 classroom teachers will all benefit from the information that Dr. Skoczylas shares with us about the relationship between language and literacy.
For more information, please download the flyer and registration form.
THE READING COUNCIL OF GREATER WINNIPEG PRESENTS
Dr. Jeffrey Wilhelm
Setting the Stage for Success: Strategies to Foster Inquiry-Based Learning &
Engaging Ways to Reach Reluctant Readers and Writers
Friday, October 20, 2017 (MTS PD Day)
This presentation will help us to implement the new ELA Curriculum with an inquiry stance. Jeffrey Wilhelm offers practical instructional strategies to strengthen the reading-writing connection in non-fiction text. He provides creative ways to engage striving and reluctant readers to realize the power and agency of literacy so they can take positive action in their world.
Click here for more information.
Dr. Jeffrey Wilhelm
Setting the Stage for Success: Strategies to Foster Inquiry-Based Learning &
Engaging Ways to Reach Reluctant Readers and Writers
Friday, October 20, 2017 (MTS PD Day)
This presentation will help us to implement the new ELA Curriculum with an inquiry stance. Jeffrey Wilhelm offers practical instructional strategies to strengthen the reading-writing connection in non-fiction text. He provides creative ways to engage striving and reluctant readers to realize the power and agency of literacy so they can take positive action in their world.
Click here for more information.
Other Groups
WINNIPEG SCHOOL DIVISION – CLINICAL SUPPORT SERVICES READING DEPARTMENT PRESENTS
Kelly Gallagher
Literacy Instruction: Blending the Tried and True with the Brand New
Monday, February 12, 2018
Kelly Gallagher has been a full-time English teacher since 1986, working most of those years at Magnolia High School in Anaheim, California. In addition to his work in the classroom, Kelly is the author of six books on adolescent literacy and he consults and provides training to professional educators on a local, national, and international level. In his most recent book, In the Best Interest of Students, Kelly takes the long view, reminding us of the need to stay true to what we know works in literacy instruction.
For more information, please download the flyer and registration form.
Kelly Gallagher
Literacy Instruction: Blending the Tried and True with the Brand New
Monday, February 12, 2018
Kelly Gallagher has been a full-time English teacher since 1986, working most of those years at Magnolia High School in Anaheim, California. In addition to his work in the classroom, Kelly is the author of six books on adolescent literacy and he consults and provides training to professional educators on a local, national, and international level. In his most recent book, In the Best Interest of Students, Kelly takes the long view, reminding us of the need to stay true to what we know works in literacy instruction.
For more information, please download the flyer and registration form.
