CANCELLED: #906 Challenging All Readers with SEM-R (grades 3-8)
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Registration Closed.
Last Date to Register: 3/17/2011 12:01 AM
Last Date to Cancel: 3/18/2011 12:01 AM
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This workshop will provide participants with an understanding of a new reading framework, The Schoolwide Enrichment Model Reading Framework (SEMR). SEMR involves three phases of reading instruction:
• Phase 1 involves selections designed to stimulate reading interest and follow-up through the selection of high interest read-aloud by classroom teachers accompanied by higher level questioning
• Phase 2 of the SEMR includes opportunities for silent reading and guided instruction in silent reading by the teacher of self-selected high interest reading materials.
• Phase 3 of the SEMR involves opportunities for self-selected work in a variety of enrichment opportunities in reading
This session will summarize research on talented readers population and provide current research about what currently happens to these students in American classrooms. Attention will be focused on the special needs of this group as well as the specific differentiated strategies necessary to help them continue to progress in reading.
Sally will share with participants the resources that are available through the University of Connecticut. Many of these resources are available at no cost through the university website.
Presenter's Bio:
Sally M. Reis is a Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor at The University of Connecticut and the past Department Head of Educational Psychology Department at the University of Connecticut where she also serves as a Principal Investigator for the National Research Center on the Gifted and Talented. She was a teacher for 15 years, 11 of which were spent working with gifted students on the elementary, junior high, and high school levels. She has authored or co-authored over 250 articles, books, book chapters, monographs and technical reports. Her most recent work is a computer-based assessment of student strengths integrated with an Internet based search engine that matches enrichment activities and resources with individual student profiles [www.renzullilearning.com].
Her research interests are related to special populations of gifted and talented students, including: students with learning disabilities, gifted females and diverse groups of talented students. She is also interested in extensions of the Schoolwide Enrichment Model for both gifted and talented students and as a way to expand offerings and provide general enrichment to
identify talents and potentials in students who have not been previously identified as gifted. She is the Co-Director of Confratute, the longest running summer institute in the development of gifts and talents. She has been a consultant to numerous schools and ministries of education throughout the U. S. and abroad and her work has been translated into several languages and is widely used around the world.
She is co-author of The Schoolwide Enrichment Model, The Secondary Triad Model, Dilemmas in Talent Development in the Middle Years, and a book published in 1998 about women¹s talent development entitled Work Left Undone: Choices and Compromises of Talented Females. Sally serves on several editorial boards, including the Gifted Child Quarterly, and is a past
President of the National Association for Gifted Children. She recently was honored with the highest award in her field as the Distinguished Scholar of the National Association for Gifted Children and named a fellow of the American Psychological Association.