Wright State University

Summer Course for Teachers

June 17 to 28 2013
(A two week course)

 

 

Strategies for Teaching Integrated Language Arts Standards

English 717 Three Semester Hours
Monday-Friday 9-12:30 1:30-3:00
For information contact Nancy Mack
nancy.mack@wright.edu

Bring back the JOY in teaching.

Innovative teaching strategies will stimulate the type of improvements that you want to see in your students’ writing. You will learn how to meet the Common Core Standards and prepare for achievement tests without making yourself and the students miserable. This class is not a series of lectures but a hands-on experience that will involve you in exciting instructional methods through demonstration lessons. Favorite lessons have been developed over the years from teacher feedback while other ideas are brand new discoveries from recent research and publications. Routines and organizational tips will help you to integrate reading and writing into your daily plans and keep skills instruction within a meaningful literacy context. You will learn how to use art, visuals, and graphic activities to turn your most reluctant students into allies. You will become familiar with brain-compatible learning while you stretch in new directions, building confidence as both a writer and a teacher. You will walk away from this class with a large notebook full of invigorating ideas. Content area teachers are welcome as well as teachers from other disciplines--because all teachers teach reading and writing.