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Writing in Content Areas: Understanding Content
(Any subject area)
Mike Barney
Session Description:
From this session, participants will understand the critical role that writing plays in comprehending content material. The training will address research-based text comprehension through understanding text structures, using note-taking strategies and summarizing content. These strategies are designed to meet the needs of students grades six through 12. In addition, there will be heavy emphasis on creating fluent writers by focusing on paragraph writing in different content areas.
Mike Barney
Mike Barney of Palm Desert, Calif., has been a teacher since 1989. He has been a college ESL teacher, K-8 language arts teacher, primary teacher, project teacher, mentor teacher, assistant principal, principal and an independent language arts and technology consultant. An author of two children's books, he has been recognized as an outstanding literacy teacher by the nonprofit American Literacy Corporation. He is now a reading coordinator for the Riverside County Office of Education. In this role, he works with students, teachers, principals and district administrators. His first steps include walking schools through tools to analyze and apply data to each classroom. Using the analyzed data as a basis, he assists schools to successfully implement scientifically researched strategies in each classroom through a hands-on process.
