Professional Learning Solutions
College
Reading Apprenticeship for First Year Experience

What You Learn
- How to use Reading Apprenticeship as an instructional framework to support robust learning in first year seminar courses and/or summer bridge programs
- How to recognize and model for students the reading strategies you use as an expert reader of academic texts
- How to build students’ willingness and capacity to read more, and more rigorous (college-level) texts
- How to accelerate students’ learning and literacy, simultaneously, as they transition to college
- How to engage students in understanding their own thinking processes—the power of metacognition
- How to foster learning dispositions of persistence, problem solving, and collaboration
Additionally, online follow-up sessions will address:
- Using Reading Apprenticeship in STEM-specific summer bridge and/or FYE courses
- Embedding Reading Apprenticeship in tutor training and tutoring settings
- How to utilize ePortfolios
- Leadership concerns and working across traditional divides (e.g., academic affairs and student affairs)
Nika Hogan ⋅ mhogan@wested.org
Who Should Participate
- Higher-ed (university, college, community and technical college) instructors of all subject areas and levels
- Administrators or Student Support Educators who are working to help design or develop First Year Experience courses and/or programs
Schedule
Available by request at your site, please contact us for a pricing quote and to set dates that work for you
Included Course Materials
- Our best-selling book, Reading for Understanding
- A binder of professional readings
- Classroom implementation materials
Nika Hogan ⋅ mhogan@wested.org