2023.10.23 First-Grade Small Group in Action

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First-Grade Small Group in Action with Ruth Metcalfe

October 23, 2023 | 9:00 AM – 3:00 PM | Akron Elementary School

Primary Audience:  First-grade teachers who lead small group instruction, instructional coaches

Spend the day with Ruth Metcalfe, a first grade teacher,  and learn the specifics to making small group instruction gel. It takes more than a checklist, it is about noticing students’ needs, intentionally developing the next teaching points, and then offering feedback in ways that are accepted and applied by young students. See a first-grade small group in action.

Meet Ruth Metcalfe

Ruth Metcalfe teaches first graders and is also a mentor teacher in northern Indiana. Over the course of her career, she has been a second-grade teacher, fourth-grade teacher, instructional coach, district literacy coach, and teacher-librarian. Creating learning environments where students feel a sense of joyful ownership and purpose is her passion, and you can often find her enticing readers to fall in love with books .