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Reading, Writing and Research: Integrating Literacy across the Curriculum
In session (began October 20)
Explore reading and writing skills instruction and information literacy concepts, and learn to effectively integrate these skills into the teaching of other subjects.
Teachers will identify appropriate reading-comprehension and writing-skills goals for their students. Teachers will explore simple strategies for skills instruction and apply these strategies within the content area they teach. In addition, teachers will explore information skills, learning to identify, search for and evaluate information -- particularly web-based information.
Teachers will use these new instructional strategies to enhance their own teaching and learn to assess student growth in reading, writing and research skills.
In this course, teachers will cultivate an understanding the importance of developing students’ critical-thinking and problem solving skills. By recognizing the need to improve student learning in the classroom, teachers will learn to consistently incorporate different points of view in instruction, acknowledging the influence of race, ethnicity, gender, religion, socioeconomics, and culture on a student’s development and attitudes.
The course has equipped me with more reading and writing tools, to generate and motivate students to read, write and enjoy the power of the written word.
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Prerequisites
None
Course objectives
- Identify appropriate reading-comprehension and writing-skills goals
- Explore simple strategies for reading and writing instruction
- Apply these reading and writing strategies within the content area
- Identify correct information sources for specific information needs
- Effectively choose and use search tools and evaluate information on the internet
- Assess student growth in reading, writing and research skills
Audience
This course is appropriate for teachers of all subjects and grade levels.
Standards Alignment
This course addresses the following North Carolina teacher standards:
- Standard II: Teachers establish a respectful environment for a diverse population of students
- b. Teachers embrace diversity in the school community and in the world.
- 3) Standard IV: Teachers facilitate learning for their students
- e. Teachers help students develop critical-thinking and problem-solving skills.
- Standard V: Teachers reflect on their practice
- a. Teachers analyze student learning.
This course also satisfies standards from the National Staff Development Council, the Interstate New Teacher Assessment and Support Consortium (INTASC), and International Educational Technology Standards for Teachers (NETS-T) from the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE).
Time commitment
Approximately 4-5 hours per week.
Materials required
None
