EDU.3613 Teaching Writing and Thinking: Grades 5-12
This course offers the opportunity to develop an understanding of current research and practice related to the teaching of writing at the middle and secondary levels. Special emphasis will be placed on writing processes as they pertain to personal, analytic, and creative writing. Other topics include constructed responses on various state assessments, writing workshop management, responding to student writing, writing center protocols, and consideration of sociocultural and gender perspectives. Students will engage in the development of writing assessments and participate both as writers and evaluators.