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e-Learning for Educators - Teaching Writing in the Middle School Classroom
This course is offered as a part of the e-Learning for Educators project, a partnership between LEARN NC, The Friday Institute for Educational Innovation at North Carolina State University College of Education, UNC-TV, DPI, and the North Carolina Virtual Public School. This material is based upon work supported by the U.S. Department of Education under Grant No. U286A050018.
In session (began October 28)
All students have the capacity to be good writers, and writers learn to write by writing. These are the basic tenets of this workshop, during which participants will learn instructional strategies to teach students in the upper elementary grades how to write narrative and informational text.
Participants will explore how to teach their students about the traits of good writing through mini-lessons and writing workshops and how to use established criteria to evaluate writing. Participants will also recognize that writing is a process and consider how to organize instruction to guide students through the stages of that process. This course will take participants through the instructional cycle, from writing prompt to revision as they create their final projects.
Audience
This course is appropriate for writing teachers in middle school classrooms.
Time commitment
Approximately 2-5 hours per week
Prerequisites
None
Materials required
None
