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By SHARON KILPATRICK
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
It was yet another muggy late August day as high school teachers gathered in the library last Tuesday for an in-service day spent on “Reading in the Content Area,” and all the fans were going.
Joy Moody, Associate Director of the University of Virginia’s Reading to Learn Project, had come to conduct the inservice. She is soft voiced and some of the fans had to be turned off. The teachers were ready to learn what they can do to promote one of the school system’s goals, improved reading proficiency, when a lawn mower started up just outside a door that had been propped open to allow air to circulate.
Laughter greeted this interruption. The lawnmower operator was encouraged to operate elsewhere, and Ms Moody told the teachers the goal of the “Reading to Learn” project is to “empower students to become independent learners.”
She started by asking the teachers working in small groups to describe their most successful lessons and then to describe the characteristics which were common to those successful lessons.
When the groups shared the results of their discussions, they agreed that successful lessons were those with a lot of student involvement in which students were responsible for the success of the lesson and in which they had an opportunity to experience success. They were also lessons which were on subjects of interest to the students or teacher, involved more than one academic area or where students used a variety of their senses to learn.
Ms. Moody said that research shows that most people remember 10 percent of
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