Instructional coaches from several underperforming schools participated in a day-long
workshop September 20. The workshop was sponsored by the State Department of Education.
Using the new ELA academic standards, WIN Director Ellen James modeled instructional strategies
for the point-of-view indicator.
(Download Ellen's Point-of-View PowerPoint presentation: Part One Part Two Part Three
(NOTE: these are large files. Please be patient when downloading them.)
Frank Baker, a national media literacy educator and WIN consultant, explored
Reading Film: Looking Closely At Perspective and Point-of-View in Films. He showed clips from
several films, including Flags of Our Fathers, Letters from Iwo Jima, Over the Hedge,
To Kill a Mockingbird, and Because of Winn-Dixie, to demonstrate how a director presents point-of-view
visually. For more information about the work Frank does with teachers and students, contact him at
fbaker1346@aol.com
Dr. Theresa Siskind, Deputy Superintendent for Curriculum and
Assessment, updates workshop participants. Elwood Lewis, Team Leader
from the Office of Quality Assurance, welcomes workshop participants.
Robin Rivers, Team Leader from the Office of Instructional Promising
Practices, introduces the day's session: What Our Work Is. Click the link
to download the PowerPoint presentation.
Workshop participants discuss the short story and its point of view.
Workshop participants create a Literary Weaving demonstrating the different
points of view of characters within the short story.
