Ed-2-Ed Professional Development
Equipping future educators with the tools and strategies to engage ALL students in the habits of inquiry and analysis that will prepare them to be critical thinkers and empowered citizens in a media-saturated world.
Our free lessons are designed with pre-service teachers in mind - to deliver inquiry-based media decoding activities at all grade levels and for diverse subject areas.
Our Ed2Ed PD supports Teacher Education faculty to integrate constructivist media decoding into their curriculum.
Artful facilitation of group discussion that motivates disenfranchised learners and gifted students through complex analysis of diverse perspectives and different forms of media
Integrating habits of inquiry, analysis and critical thinking into core content
Preparing engaging activities that are standards- and objectives-driven, facilitate self-reflection and metacognition, and make subject-area learning relevant
ED-2-ED: Our Unique PD Experience for Teacher Education Faculty
The initiative concludes with a final coaching session and plan for the ongoing integration of media literacy into the curriculum, including materials, resources and support.
This extensive and deeply engaging professional development program is offered at $950 for two semesters.
Semester 1:
The initiative begins with an Initial consultation between Chris Sperry and the faculty member(s) to define objectives and plan the semester.
Chris then presents a dynamic 60-90 minute interactive webinar to the class addressing the pedagogy & and practice of media literacy integration, with rich resource materials and the assignment for each student to develop their own 1-page Constructivist Media Decoding Activity Plan.
Chris works with the faculty member(s) to provide students with feedback on their activity plans prior to a 2nd 60-90 minute class where 2 student volunteers lead media decoding activities with Chris co-facilitating the debriefings.
Chris and the faculty member then consult on the 2nd semester plans.
Semester 2:
In the 2nd semester the faculty member leads the whole process with access to videos, rubrics, materials and guides from Project Look Sharp.
Chris coaches the faculty member(s) through each of the classes and with their feedback on student activity plans.
The initiative concludes with a final coaching session and plan for the ongoing integration of media literacy into your teacher ed. curriculum, including materials, resources and support.
“Chris Sperry is a very knowledgeable, insightful, creative, personable, and effective educator for and about critical media literacy.”
- Jeff Claus, retired professor of Teacher Education, Ithaca College