January 23 Workshop: "Visual Learning for Literacy Across the Disciplines"

Professor Douglas Fisher will be presenting the second workshop in the School of Education series Research-Based Strategies to Enhance Learning for All Students: "Visual Learning for Literacy Across the Disciplines."  The workshop will be held at the UCI Student Center on Tuesday, January 23rd, from 9:00 am to 2:30 pm. 

In this interactive session, Dr. Fisher will focus on:

• Surface and deep learning - how to use the right research-based approach at the right time
• Which activities and routines are most effective at specific phases of learning
• Specific practices for vocabulary instruction, reading comprehension, discussion and questioning, and metacognition
• Eight mind frames for teachers and how to apply them to curriculum planning
• Learning from what doesn't work

Douglas Fisher, PhD, is a Professor of Educational Leadership at San Diego State University and a teacher leader at Health Sciences High & Middle College having been an early intervention teacher and elementary school educator. He is the recipient of an International Reading Association William S. Grey citation of merit, an Exemplary Leader Award from the Conference on English Leadership of NCTE, as well as a Christa McAuliffe Award for Excellence in Teacher Education. He has published numerous articles on reading and literacy, differentiated instruction, and curriculum design as well as books, such as Visible Learning for Literacy, Rigorous Reading, and Text Complexity: Raising Rigor in Reading.
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Information and Registration

The $210 registration fee includes continental breakfast, boxed lunch, and a copy of Visible Learning for Literacy (Fisher, Frey, and Hattie, ASCD, 2016).