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MarquettaGibson_SEC_540_O500_ProfessionalDevelopment.pptxProfessional Development Presentation
Marquetta Gibson
Grand Canyon University: SEC-540
December 09, 2021
Today’s Discussion
Incorporate writing into your classroom to improve learning.
Diverse viewpoints and learning styles are incorporated into strategies to engage students.
Incorporate written expression into your classroom with these activities.
Role and practical understanding on how to improve literacy in the classroom across the board.
Writers are better able to understand a topic's specialist language and terminology since they write about it. Study after study has proved that writing is an excellent way to engage with students in all circumstances. As of this writing, (Dalporto, 2016).
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Incorporation in Content Area
Interactive writing (IW) is essential in building fundamental skills for students.
Teachers do not stop teaching their content but instead they apprentice students into the discourses of their disciplines by co-constructing a piece of writing.
Students must be actively involved in order to read and write well in the classroom.
It's a great motivation to be interested in the classroom.
Reading comprehension skills must be imparted to students via individualized instruction. The ability to read actively improves one's ability to retain information. For the same reason, students need to have confidence in their writing skills (regardless of discipline).
IW enables instructors to address writing and language goals in support of discipline-specific text styles and purposes without needing any extra resources or diverting the emphasis away from subject (Gabriel & Dostal, 2015).
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Integrating Reading and Writing
Students should be asked to assess a piece of writing based on a set of criteria that they are familiar with.
Discuss what makes the work so effective in class.
Consider allowing students to work together to figure out what makes the writing so good. "
People who write in the genre of "writing to tell" or "explain" would first need to show their students how to read informational text. Students can be encouraged to look for theme sentences, passage/text connections, style/voice, and other informative writing parts in educational content (Merten, 2015).
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Integrating Reading and Writing
Encourage students to maintain a reading diary, in which they may "pursue their thoughts in whatever manner that they believe is constructive" (Integrating Reading and Writing, 2016, p. 12) as they read.
There is no need that students follow an agenda; they may contemplate what they read and even go back to it throughout the year.
The diary is not required to be graded; nevertheless, it can be a useful location for the instructor to offer helpful remarks that contribute to their thinking.
Students need to read and speak about authentic instances of the type of writing we are seeking for; we need to make evident what we to have at the top of the priority list. "For students to grasp how to write a historical narrative, they need the chance to debate, evaluate, and appreciate well-written history(Gabriel & Dostal, 2015)."
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Integrating Reading and Writing
Inquiry Questions
Generates discussion and inspires varied points of view
Demands a critical or careful reading of the text (s)
Demands an answer that is not jus simple yes or no.
Moves beyond opinion, into positions tat connect claim, evidence and reasoning.
Integration of reading and learning is built to teach both reading and writing skills in the same class. Students learn both skills and use writing to show that they understand what they read. Children learn how to write better when they read a wide range of different types of books. In addition, reading gives young people a lot of information that they can use in their stories. Writing can help students make sense of the subject they're learning and connect new ideas to their own lives in the same way that talking helps them learn new things. If you're writing, you can't help but think. A lot of writing should happen every day and in each class.
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Strategies to Engage Students
Plan to make literacy relevant to student’s interest and everyday lives.
Use current events and topics for students to explore and discuss in class.
Implement collaboration.
An instructor needs to get to know his or her students in order to make literacy relevant to their interests and everyday lives. Find out what students in the class is important, and then design lessons around these elements. According to the US Department of Education, there are a lot of things one should know about how to help a child learn.
Current events and topics allows the children to comprehend the real-world application and allows for diversity of thought and opinion.
Tutors should look for ways that different subjects may align through conceptual themes. They should then be able to discuss similar topics among classrooms that will keep the students engaged and as active participants.
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Strategies for Writing
Students can write in the margins of their books.
Use Sentence Starters.
If you want to write something in the margins of your book, you can. This lets students write and "converse" with what they are reading, which helps them understand what they are reading better. When you start a sentence, use Sentence Starters! Most of the time, students have trouble getting started on their writing projects. A good way to help students write a thesis is to give them a framework to fill in as they start writing. (Braun 2015)
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Activities to Support Writing
Story chains
Annotate on poster boards
Set a timer for one to two minutes and give students a suggestion to get them started on their writing. When the timer goes off, it is the responsibility of the next student to go on with the writing assignment. Assign students to annotate an extract from the material you are currently reading by pasting it on a poster board and instructing them to work in groups. They may write down the most relevant elements of the quotation as well as their interpretations of what it means.
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Role of Improving Literacy
Students will be able to use what they've learnt in earlier classes.
Reading and writing may help students develop their critical literacy skills.
Giving pupils constructive criticism (rather than a grade) is a good technique to help them improve their writing abilities.
Establishes a foundation for what students have previously learnt in earlier courses. If pupils already understand how to construct a sentence, boosting literacy requires expanding on that basis. Reading and writing may help students develop their critical literacy. Students will learn when they are presented with a realistic obstacle to overcome and given enough practice time. Giving students constructive criticism (and not necessarily a grade) is an excellent technique to help them improve their writing abilities. One method to do this is to demonstrate how to read a text and how I, as a teacher, could reply in writing to it.
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Role of Improving Literacy
The goal is to build the student’s confidence to work independently
Effective methodologies develop student’s writing abilities and hence literacy.
Students are as well motivated to succeed.
The overarching purpose of literacy improvement is to instill confidence in kids when they read and write independently. By using effective tactics and emphasizing the development of students' writing abilities, they will become more motivated and eager to engage. Students will be motivated to develop, which will eventually result in success.
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References
Braun, H. (2015, August 15). 8 Smart Strategies for Teaching Writing. Retrieved from https://www.theclassroomkey.com/2015/08/8-smart-strategies-for-teaching-writing.html
Integrating Reading and Writing. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://writing-speech.dartmouth.edu/teaching/firstyear-writing-pedagogies-methods-design/integrating-reading-and-writing
Motivating Students to Read and Write in All Disciplines: U-M LSA Sweetland Center for Writing. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://lsa.umich.edu/sweetland/instructors/teaching-resources/motivating-students-toread-and-write-in-all-disciplines.html#:~:text=Integrating reading and writing improves,in turn increases student motivation.
U.S. Department of Education. (n.d.). All About Adolescent Literacy. Retrieved from http://www.adlit.org/article/27759/
Dalporto, D. (2016, August 18). Writing Across the Curriculum: What, How and Why. We Are Teachers. https://www.weareteachers.com/writing-across-the-curriculum-what-how-and-why/#:~:text=Writing%20increases%20the%20depth%20of,way%20she's%20flexing%20her%20mind
Gabriel, R., & Dostal, H. (2015). Interactive Writing in the Disciplines: A Common Core Approach to Disciplinary Writing in Middle and High School. Clearing House, 88(2), 66–71. https://doi-org.lopes.idm.oclc.org/10.1080/00098655.2015.1005036
Merten, S. (2015). Reading And Writing Alignment Across Content Areas. Science Scope, 38(6), 12–18. https://doi-org.lopes.idm.oclc.org/10.2505/4/ss15_038_06_12
