Objectives for Educators - Writing Academy
Participating teachers will earn 90 recertification points and will develop the following skills:
Pedagogical Skills:
- P1: the ability to design classrooms that are communities of learners
- P2: the ability to design classrooms that utilize the writer’s workshop approach
- P3: the ability to design classrooms that emphasize the process of writing as being equally important to the product of writing
- P4: the ability to communicate theory into practice of writing centers, writer’s workshop and thoughtful literacy
- P5: the ability to adapt curriculum to incorporate writings as an extension of the liberal arts and all areas of preK-12 disciplines
- P6: the ability to establish the inherent connections between reading and writing
Writing Skills:
- W1: the ability to write with authentic voice
- W2: the ability to differentiate the elements of composing, editing, revising and publishing
- W3: the ability to identify elements of effective communication
- W4: the ability to use authentic voice to respond and analyze
- W5: the ability to write a variety of discourse across a variety of audiences
Affective Skills:
- A1: the ability to understand that writing is an expression of thought, both creative and critical
- A2: the ability to understand that to teach writing teachers must see themselves as writers
- A3: the ability to elicit written thought from developing writers
- A4: the ability to understand that the process of critique is a shared interaction among a community of learners within a writing workshop classroom
- A5: the ability to be open to change classroom structures and pedagogical bias to the teaching of process-centered, authentic voice writing, including the use of digital literacies
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