Literacy
Foundations of Oracy©
A Professional Development Module
By Diana L. Geisler, Ph.D.
Language, Literacy & Culture
The Foundations of Oracy© professional development module addresses two goals, one for teachers and one for students.
1. The first goal is to strengthen teachers’ understanding of and expertise in teaching for oracy so that they may effectively and confidently facilitate their students’ oracy skills. Teachers will learn how to scaffold students’ oracy development through enabling conversations, employing language-expanding talk moves.
2. The second goal is that students’ oracy skills will grow:
- Students will actively participate in instructional conversations.
- Students will speak using increasingly complex grammar.
- Students will speak using an ever-widening variety of language structures.
- Students will speak using a continuously-expanding vocabulary.
Dr. Diana Geisler
A Professional Development Module
By Diana L. Geisler, Ph.D.
Language, Literacy & Culture
The Foundations of Oracy© professional development module addresses two goals, one for teachers and one for students.
1. The first goal is to strengthen teachers’ understanding of and expertise in teaching for oracy so that they may effectively and confidently facilitate their students’ oracy skills. Teachers will learn how to scaffold students’ oracy development through enabling conversations, employing language-expanding talk moves.
2. The second goal is that students’ oracy skills will grow:
- Students will actively participate in instructional conversations.
- Students will speak using increasingly complex grammar.
- Students will speak using an ever-widening variety of language structures.
- Students will speak using a continuously-expanding vocabulary.
Dr. Diana Geisler
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Diana Geisler is a teacher of bilingual and bi-dialectal children, a teacher of their teachers, and an emerging author and researcher. Dr. Geisler’s research centers on language and literacy acquisition of culturally and linguistically diverse children in the United States, with an emphasis on Spanish-English bilinguals. A certified Reading Recovery© and Descubriendo La Lectura© teacher leader, she is particularly interested in issues related to the interrelationship between oracy and literacy. Dr. Geisler currently works as a consultant on matters of language and literacy development of bilingual and bi-dialectal children.
Education: PhD Reading, Bilingual Education, and ESL, Texas Woman’s University MA Bilingual Education, Texas Woman’s University BA Elementary Education, University of North Texas Trailer Quick Time: [ Cable/DSL 256k ] Media Player: [ Cable/DSL 256k ] $600.00 |
