Abstract
Developing essential literacy skills is vital to ensure our students have the best chance to succeed in their education and everyday life. The explicit teaching of literacy is crucial for all students to be able to completely comprehend and apply their knowledge and understanding. Weekly Writing Focus (WWF) is innovative pedagogy that promotes collaborative learning, peer to peer learning and mixed modes of communication while explicitly teaching literacy capabilities. Workshop topics include: Making meaning in literacy by reading and viewing, writing and representing and talking and listening, sharing innovating online pedagogy to implement a literacy program that students can not only engage with, but interact with, allowing all students to have success through targeted focus areas, student led and collaborative learning to check for understanding and reinforce concept, providing students quick, sustainable and quality feedback. Ways of presenting: Discussion and demonstration of pedagogy using platforms such as Blackboard Collaborate and Seesaw, showcasing and sharing parts of explicitly modeled lessons, group activities to model collaborative, student led learning. Participants in this workshop will be placed into groups and provided with the technology to connect to a real online learning environment. The purpose of this is to truly demonstrate the benefits of collaborative learning in an interactive classroom environment while making meaning through developing core literacy skills.
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