Reading
Reading Instruction / Seminar in Teaching & Learning
Lauren Freeman,

Reading Department Staff  
Reading Department Awards

Program Rationale

Reading Instruction By the time they reach high school, students have learned to read; however, many are not yet proficient at reading to learn. A recent issue of Educational Leadership states, “Too often, students have an incomplete notion of what reading actually means. They do not realize the complexities of reading to learn.”  In step with the latest in educational research, the Reading Department of H-F provides crucial pathways to academic success for students from the 9th-12th Grades.  

Program Goal As they expand their reading comprehension, vocabularies, writing and study skills, students enrolled in reading classes at H-F will improve their academic performances across the content areas and build lifelong literacy skills.

Seminar in Teaching & Learning Research demonstrates time and again that the most successful students feel safe and connected to those around them. Designed for both transfer and current H-F students, Seminar in Teaching & Learning is a community of learners – students, peer leaders, and teacher facilitators — working together in an atmosphere of high expectations and mutual respect to achieve academic success for all.

Program Goal Students will improve academic performance, develop a sense of cognitive self-awareness, hone critical thinking skills, develop a sense of personal self-awareness and, ultimately, become active participants in H-F High School.

Course Goals

Reading Instruction
Students will hone the following skills crucial to reading to learn complex, thought-provoking texts in high school and beyond:

Increase comprehension and reading rate;
Expand vocabulary knowledge;
Improve critical thinking skills;
Enhance organizational skills;
Construct effective written and oral communications.

          Reading Department Brochure   (pdf file)
 

Seminar in Teaching & Learning
As students participate in Seminar in Teaching & Learning, they develop academically, socially and emotionally.  Students will:

• Develop realistic personal achievement goals and outline steps to attain those goals
• Hone study skills
• Create a time management plan by setting short-term and long-term goals and priorities
• Utilize available tutoring assistance within the school
• Become involved in at least one of H-F’s academic, athletic or extracurricular offerings
• Identify individual preferred learning styles
• Utilize multiple intelligences
• Engage in problem solving activities
• Engage in multiple levels of inductive inquiry
• Identify intrapersonal and interpersonal qualities
• Develop leadership abilities and learning strategies
• Demonstrate an awareness of personal responsibility to oneself and society
• Develop self-esteem

          Seminar in Teaching & Learning Brochure   (pdf file) 
          Seminar in Teaching & Learning Leadership Brochure   (pdf file) 

9201 Seminar in Teaching & Learning  
9202 Seminar in Teaching & Learning  
9203 Seminar in Teaching & Learning  
9205 Seminar in Teaching & Learning Leadership for 9201   
9205 Seminar in Teaching & Learning Leadership for 9202   
9205 Seminar in Teaching & Learning Leadership for 9203   
9206 - Reading Enrichment 1  
9207 - Reading & Reasoning 1  
9208 - Reading & Writing 1 Honors     
9209 - Reading Enrichment 2     
9210 - Reading & Reasoning 2   
9211 - Reading Enrichment Seminar  
9212 Reading & Reasoning Seminar  
9213 Reading & Writing 2 Honors   

Reading course information from the Academic Course Selection Book  

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