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2018-2019 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2018-2019 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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ELEM 351 - Writing Assessment and Instruction


Description:
Designed to prepare prospective elementary teachers to assess/teach language arts in the classroom. Processes and products of writing, reading, speaking, listening, visualizing, and viewing instruction, including the integration across content areas are emphasized. Course will be offered every year. Course will not have an established scheduling pattern.

Prerequisites:
Prerequisites: Full admission to the Teacher Certification Program and ELEM 331 and valid WSP/FBI fingerprint clearance is required for this course. The clearance must appear in OSPI’s Fingerprinting Database and be valid throughout the quarter enrolled.

Credits: (4)

Learner Outcomes:
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:

  • Integrate reading, writing, speaking, listening, visualizing, viewing, and thinking as developmental processes.
  • Examine the writing process, its components, the effective traits, and its recursive, interactive, and collaborative nature.
  • Appraise how purpose, audience, perspective, and mode shape writing.
  • Implement strategies for finding, selecting, refining topics for writing research projects.
  • Explain how teachers connect learning to students (particularly those with special and diverse needs).
  • Implement culturally, relevant, research-based lessons in English/Language Arts.
  • Describe how individual, social, and cultural factors influence interpersonal communication.
  • Participate in a classroom community mindful of student engagement, learning, and positive relationships.
Learner Outcomes Approval Date:
4/5/18



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