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. Furthermore, it seeks to help teachers learn strategies for reinforcing and facilitating work in some of these areas. In the course of the presentation, participants read and compare the Louisiana Standards and Benchmarks for mathematics and English language arts, explore the relationship of ratio to analogy, and write a formal proof for a proposition in geometry. Students write competently for a variety of purposes and audiences. The purpose of this seminar is to provide primary resources of historic information and terminology to create a knowledge base of Vietnam and U.S. relations.