Teaching Writing in Secondary Schools

Teaching Writing in Secondary Schools is the second of three English discipline methods courses in the standard path. This course focuses on developing writing skills in adolescent learners and includes consideration of writing across a range of real- world contexts and genres, the writing process, and assessment of writing skills. Connections to the science of learning and the science of reading are spiraled throughout the content. Considerations of technology integration and different media modalities are included. This course will be assessed via one integrated PA task for the undergraduate version, with one additional PA task for the graduate version. The assessment will require candidates to demonstrate instructional skills. This methods course will count towards 7 hours of the 51 total clinical hours that learners will gain from their SCED methods courses.

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