Students write competently for a variety of purposes and audiences. Students apply reasoning and problem solving skills to their reading, writing, speaking, listening, viewing, and visually representing. Since writing is used to measure their academic achievements in the various content areas, students need to use writing in the learning of content area skills and concepts. Participants should come to know writing as a tool in thinking and learning as they participate in a variety of activities designed to proceed from free writing to developing a story based on content-area facts. Presenters will offer ideas for incorporating writing into classrooms, steps in creating content area performance based rubrics, and ways to use writing across the content areas to accommodate content-area standards.
Students write competently for a variety of purposes and audiences.
Students apply reasoning and problem solving skills to their reading, writing, speaking, listening, viewing, and visually representing. The purpose of this workshop is to demonstrate critical thinking strategies that teachers can use with their students, including questioning, using coins to write problem-solving tasks, developing a dialectical journal, and employing writing as assessment of level of comprehension of a concept or skill. The method of presentation will consist of small group work, work with a partner, whole group work, and individual work. Students write competently for a variety of purposes and audiences. Students apply reasoning and problem solving skills to their reading, writing, speaking, listening, viewing, and visually representing.