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Presentation Style:
Laura Waller is an exciting, young, dynamic teacher. She began
her career in education by teaching for several years as an
elementary education Reading Specialist in an inner city
school in Washington, D.C. With degrees from both Appalachian
State University in North Carolina, and Johns Hopkins
University in Maryland, she is experienced with ESL students,
underprivileged students, Title One students and many other
students who struggle in reading, writing, or mathematics in
grades kindergarten through five.
With a strong focus on differentiated instruction, multiple
intelligences, thematic teaching, and technology to
encourage motivation and high academic achievement by her
students, she is now teaching underprivileged children in a
rural school in North Carolina. Recently she has received
funding from the Bright Ideas Grant to implement hands on
literacy centers that support learning with a focus on
technology and preparing students to be globally competitive
in the 21st Century.
Her teaching tactics have been featured in a professional
development video soon to be released by Corwin Press, and
she is currently co-authoring a book,
Differentiation and Response to Intervention in Reading
for the Elementary and Middle School Grades. She serves on the Jones County World View team; a
team that strives to create global learners in the
classrooms. Laura offers workshops on the use of smart
boards, e-assessments, and other technologies in the
classroom to facilitate differentiation and response to
intervention.
SUMMARY EVALUATION MUSCOGEE COUNTY BEST PRACTICES INSTITUTE
COLUMBUS, GA June 8. 2011
Workshop Title: Technology for Differentiating Reading
Presenter: Laura Waller
Our participants graded this workshop on a scale of 1-4, with
4 being excellent and 1 being poor, for the following
questions. The average is shown for each question. The
number of participants was 26. (on a 4 point scale)
1. Presenter was knowledgeable in the content
area
3.92
2. Presentation 3.92
3. Handouts were
helpful
3.96 4. Overall Workshop
Rating
3.96
Comments:
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I am afraid of technology, and I didn’t feel the least bit
threatened or put on the spot! I am definitely going
to try some of these!
- Loved your class! Super info!!!
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Not enough time for all of the information.
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I enjoyed the realistic and thorough approach of this
presenter.
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Awesome! Easy to understand and apply.
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Thank you for your expertise in teaching reading!
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Very engaging and meaningful presentation. It’s
practicable and I look forward to using what I’ve learned in
this class.
- Loved it!
- Should have had more time.
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Super Class!!! Thanks for all the info!
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Needs to be longer then the 2.5 hours!!
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Lots of content for 2.5 hours – needs to be longer, possibly
whole day.
- Loved it!
- Thanks for the new resources.
- WOW very helpful.
- Great!
- Enjoyed this very much.
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This should be offered to all new teachers. It was
great!!
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Lots of great and useful info! Can’t wait to use in my
media center.
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