GTEC Presents

Short and Extended Constructed Response: Composition Strategies
​Tuesday, November 7th 8-11 (3rd - 8th) 

speaker: malene golding

PictureMalene Golding
Malene Malene Golding, M.Ed, is a certified Master Reading Teacher and Reading Specialist who has been a professional educator for over twenty years, teaching, coaching, managing reading and writing teachers, administrators and specialists and taught preservice teachers as an adjunct professor.
PictureMonique Johnson
Monique Johnson is a educator for 20 plus years and worked in several public-school districts and private schools. Monique has a passion for Middle school however has worked in Elementary, High School and Secondary (College). Served as a teacher, instructional coach, curriculum manager, professor, and education consultant.  Her motto is all students can learn regardless of their circumstances.
Description: Across the state, students are expected to write brief explanations and in-depth responses to demonstrate their understanding of content by explaining, analyzing, and evaluating information provided in a reading selection or stimulus. Join us for this fast-paced, writing focused training to explore composition strategies for teaching students how to properly address short and extended constructed response items on STAAR. Collaborate with colleagues as you all work together to create questions and petitions for a wide range of texts along with scoring rubrics. We go beyond RACE and RACES to get students to use the writing process to create brief and extended responses that meet the demands of assigned writing tasks. 
Objectives: 
Teachers will learn and retell…  
  • How the writing process can be condensed to address constructed response
  • Why students should be writing in response to text daily
  • Why activities that teach writing should be interactive
 
Teachers will learn and practice…  
  • Highly effective teaching techniques, appropriate for all learners in all grades and especially helpful to those students who struggle with writing
  • Using the Petitions Framework to create Extended Constructed Response items for student to practice
  • Drafting, Revising and Editing strategies that teach students how to craft quality responses to text
  • Strategies to integrate reading and writing in all classrooms daily

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Golding Touch Education Consulting LLC believes in using research based instructional strategies and best practices to provide reading and writing instruction that sticks. Our professional development sessions focus on building teacher capacity and expanding teacher's strategy tool kits in engaging and interactive ways. 

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"No one gets up in front of a classroom of students intending to do a bad job. Every teacher wants students to be successful. As long as they're willing, we can help them make it happen.”

- Malene Golding, M.Ed