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| Mosaic of Thought and 7 Keys to Comprehension Workshops: An Overview of the Comprehension Strategies This interactive workshop provides a snapshot of the comprehension strategies while taking the participants on a journey into their own reading. It is based on the premise that for adults to understand and teach the comprehension strategies outlined in Mosaic of Thought and A Look At One Strategy This workshop provides a more in-depth look at individual comprehension strategies and explores the key components of an effective reader’s workshop, including modeling, scheduling, and classroom environment. This workshop provides an overview of the comprehension strategies, explores the key components in an effective reader’s workshop, including modeling, "think-alouds", scheduling and classroom environment. Through exercises, participants will apply the comprehension strategies in their own reading and discuss short pieces in small and large groups. The workshop will also look at the staff development aspects of creating reader’s workshops and providing training and support to teachers. Specifically, we will look at establishing lab classrooms and starting study groups. What Can You Do At Home To Help Your Child Love to Read?This workshop gives parents a close-up view of how the 7 Keys can enhance their children’s love of reading and gives specific advice about what they can do at home to encourage their children to become avid readers. Workshop Participant Responses Grief Dancers Workshops and Writing to Heal the Soul Workshops: Saying Yes to What Life Throws Us Crises, challenges, losses - they hurt, we hate them, but they are part of life. They present us with great opportunities for personal growth and development. In "Saying Yes to What Life Throws Us", Susan reminds us that it isn’t what happens to us that determines our life, but how we respond to it. Whether it’s the loss of a loved one, your health, livelihood, or your dreams, picking up your pen and writing about it can help you heal. "Write to Heal" focuses on how we all have the capacity to get to the other side of grief and how grief unlocks the artist within. Workshop Participant ResponsesSample Client List |
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WHAT PARTICIPANTS SAY "I was motivated and inspired to come help my faculty at Stuart Elementary School. I just wish the time had not flown by so fast." "Wonderful training! Susan’s examples are wonderful for new teachers. The ideas and information are very useful for daytoday classroom use." "Wow! Susan Zimmermann was incredible. I wish I had sent more teachers. Please do this again. Very high quality training. Thanks so much!" "Very motivating and informative!" "This course was well worth the money, as well as having to surrender two of the remaining days of summer vacation." "This workshop gave and reminded me of some other very important aspects of teaching. Just from observing Susan Zimmermann teach, you can see that she has a love for what she does. The knowledge and experiences that she shares come from the heart. This engages students in the learning even more." "Wow, I finally get it... metacognition can and should be taught. Susan Zimmermann has greatly elevated my understanding of my own thinking. Her engaging presentation and empowering book have left a profound impression on me pedagogically." "Graduate instructors often seem to take peculiar delight in telling their stricken students that they’ve been doing everything all wrong, and that the instructor alone has the magic, and generally impossible, recipe for perfection. Susan never made the class feel that way, and just gently reminded us to slow down and let our students fall in love with reading the same way we did so many years ago, and gave us the strategies to do so." |