Making Choices:
Early Literacy Learning and the Craft of Teaching
Saturday, January 13, 2007
Rice University's School Literacy and Culture Project presents
a half-day mini-conference on the Rice University Campus, Duncan Hall
Keynote speaker:
Patsy Cooper
Professor of Education, New York University
and founder of the Classroom Storytelling Project
(Click here for a condensed transcript of the keynote address)
The theme of this year's annual early literacy conference is choice. We ask: What informs the choices teachers make around early literacy learning? What role does habit play? School administration? Culture? Finally, what difference do our choices make to young children's literacy learning?
Keynote speaker Patsy Cooper identifies choices that teachers make every day which impact what children learn about reading and writing in kindergarten, pre-kindergarten, and other educational settings.
Breakout sessions, led by School Literacy and Culture Project (SLC) staff and guests, focus on specific classroom activities for toddlers through second graders that represent sound curricular choices around story, the alphabetic principle, comprehension, and more. An information session on the SLC's ongoing professional development opportunity, the Classroom Storytelling Project, will also be held.
Featured speaker, Patsy Cooper:
From founding the School Literacy and Culture Project in the Rice University Center for Education to conducting research on effective White teachers of Black children, Patsy Cooper, education professor at New York University, has long been an articulate and outspoken advocate of early educators. Often provocative and always entertaining, Cooper consistently challenges teachers to imagine educational possibilities rather than simply respond to today's educational mandates.
Click here for PDF version of our conference flyer.
Click here for information on the 2006 conference.
