EDU 999C - Teaching Students to Write (Pre K-12)

3 Credit(s) This course presents research-based and classroom-tested ways to teach writing effectively for diverse learner profiles. Topics include writing development, elements of composition for digital and print texts, awareness of task, audience, and purpose for various writing types, models of instruction, organizing writing workshops and writing conferences, writing process, assessment, writing in the content areas, the reading/writing connection, coaching other teachers around writing, and an emphasis on teacher as writer.