Robin Johnston
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Hillsborough, North Carolina, United States
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I have worked as an educator in one capacity or another (elementary, middle and high school) for approximately 30 years, with 17 years spent as a middle school core Language Arts teacher and the past 4 years as a teacher mentor. I focused many years of my professional development on designing ways to teach expository and argumentative writing as I was assigned to teach for the NC Writing Assessment. I also spent many years diagnosing and intervening for students with various forms of dyslexia and other language differences. I developed and taught a class for struggling readers after taking extensive training in the Orton-Gillingham-Wilson reading program strategies. One of the things I enjoy most is finding ways to make great literature accessible to, and interesting for, all students. I pursued every kind of training in critical thinking and community of inquiry style learning as well (Paideia, Philosophy for Children, Junior Great Books, for examples).
I also earned an MSA degree and worked as an administrative intern.
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50 Reading Comprehension Strategies
As LA teachers we try all sorts of comprehension strategies to help students better understand what they read. One day I asked my students what strategies they used, and we generated a terrific list of strategies to try. I kept the list on my wall and we added to it as students and I thought up new ideas. Here is the final form at last count: over 50 comprehension strategies! I have organized them under categories since the list was so long. Display these and add your own, use them for discussio
3rd - 12th, Adult Education
English Language Arts, Reading, Reading Strategies
Discipline Done Right
Dealing with misbehavior the right way allows you to recognize the need causing the behavior, and support students in meeting the need – rather than simply blaming them for a fault.
After using the process provided in this worksheet, formerly problematic students would smile at me in the halls and visit to tell me how their solutions were working out. This package, designed while I was an administrator with an overwhelming number of student misbehavior issues, will help you:
- Discover and me
4th - 12th
Character Education
One-Paragraph Summary Writing
Improve comprehension and writing skills of your students efficiently through one-paragraph summary assignments. This check sheet (and accompanying explanation) for writing a one-paragraph summary for any short story or novel will provide you with
• A list of the essential elements of a narrative summary for students and teacher
• A list of the important writing traits you are developing by this work
• A list of the essential formatting requirements for a final written work
• A peer edit feed
5th - 12th, Adult Education
English Language Arts, Writing
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About the store
Experience
I have worked as an educator in one capacity or another (elementary, middle and high school) for approximately 30 years, with 17 years spent as a middle school core Language Arts teacher and the past 4 years as a teacher mentor. I focused many years of my professional development on designing ways to teach expository and argumentative writing as I was assigned to teach for the NC Writing Assessment. I also spent many years diagnosing and intervening for students with various forms of dyslexia and other language differences. I developed and taught a class for struggling readers after taking extensive training in the Orton-Gillingham-Wilson reading program strategies. One of the things I enjoy most is finding ways to make great literature accessible to, and interesting for, all students. I pursued every kind of training in critical thinking and community of inquiry style learning as well (Paideia, Philosophy for Children, Junior Great Books, for examples).
I also earned an MSA degree and worked as an administrative intern.
Teaching style
I strive to involve multiple approaches to material so all learning styles and strengths are reached while developing literacy skills. My style is to present material whenever possible in ways that involve student self-discovery, problem solving, collaboration, and community of inquiry. I start with easy problems and then build to ever more complex questions so all students find success but also a stretch in every learning experience.
Awards & shining teacher moments
~National Board Certification in ELA
~Awards from the NC Literary and Historical Society for my students' literary magazines
My own education history
~M.Ed. in K-12 Literacy from UNC-Chapel Hill
~M.S.A. from UNC-Chapel Hill, Master’s degree work in Philosophy
~B.A. in Philosophy and English from Vanderbilt University
Additional biographical information
~My website: http://chapelhillteachandtutor.com/ ~My blog: http://robinwilsonjohnston.edublogs.org/
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