Improving Literacy Skills Through Teacher Professional Development: Focus Group Research on Reading Apprenticeship Strategies

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Abstract

Reading Apprenticeship is a model of professional learning and academic literacy instruction designed to improve literacy skills and academic achievement for all students. Reading Apprenticeship engages teachers in inquiries into their own disciplinary ways of reading and into student and classroom cases with multiple opportunities for professional reading, reflection, connection to classroom practice, and planning. This paper presents research on an application of the Reading Apprenticeship framework in middle schools that engages educators across disciplines in a hybrid professional development model that incorporates online and face-to-face learning opportunities to support their instruction of literacy. This study explores focus group research results as well as Reading Apprenticeship implementation.

Authors

• Katherine J. Allen, IMPAQ International, LLC

• Stephanie Levin, IMPAQ International, LLC

• Mira-Lisa Suzanne Katz, WestEd