ENG 430 - Teaching Writing in the Secondary School

• Demonstrate an understanding of the writing process, its components, and its recursive, interactive, and collaborative nature.
• Demonstrate how mode {expository, persuasive, and narrative) and form shape writing.
• Recognize and evaluate the traits of effective writing (e.g. development of ideas, organization, voice, word choice, sentence structure, and conventions).
• Apply current state standards {GLEs) in reading, writing, and oral communication.
• Read and apply relevant educational theory and research findings {from books, peer reviews, journals, reports, classroom data, and proceedings of professional conferences, videotapes, electronic and non-electronic databases) to classroom practices.
• Explain the need for continued professional development to remain current in best practices as a practitioner of reading, writing, speaking, and listening.
• Demonstrate the ability to read, write, and communicate proficiently.
• Apply the knowledge of the English language, reading processes, the process of writing, literature, non-print media, theory, and research findings to design and implement instruction.
• Model higher level thinking skills and scaffold metacognitive processes for a wide variety of literacy tasks.
• Create reading, writing, and discussion opportunities which promote respect for and support of individual differences (e. g., ability, culture, ethnicity, gender, language, and race).
• Provide students with strategies that enable them to write effectively for a variety of audiences and purposes using the writing process.
• Use current state standards (GLEs) to evaluate student performance in writing.