This course consist of 30 hours of online assignments and activities. Educators will receive 3.0 CEUs after the completion of this course. CEUs are issued by The North Mississippi Education Consortium. We can deliver this course online or onsite**. The cost for the online delivery is $65.
Workshop Description:
How much more can we ask teachers to do! It never ceases to end…but that’s the nature of teaching. Ideas come and go. Some ideas stay the same but restated in different names. But writing and reading are stable cores to learning. Why limit writing in ways to one subject area? This workshop will explore writing that expands across subject areas. While the topic is not new, it does helps to fresh and have educators retool themselves. Reflecting on current instructional and planning practices are a necessary part of the teaching.
No, we are not asking science teachers to become a language arts teacher. But you have to be prepared to assign writing assignments and work with the language arts department to plan it out. With the dominance of social media, writing has to be more prevalent in the curriculum.
This workshop requires educators to implement new or improve current strategies for your current classroom. All teachers will participant in peer classroom observations for learning and improving current practices. You may need a colleague or administrator to complete some parts of this workshop.
This workshop includes activities for creating your own S.M.A.R.T. goals. Teachers are strongly encouraged to participate in this activity as part of workshop. Discussions and chats are available for all educators to further engage in this activity. We also provide a PLC tool for teachers to use in their school. The PLC and the S.M.A.R.T goal tool is available for use after the completion of this workshop.
Each workshop has teacher workload information and activity. This discusses the need for balance of teacher workload. It is meant for teacher encouragement and accountability. The workloads of teachers is something that can be addressed through consistent team collaboration. Team collaboration is strongly encouraged in all workshops.
The coursework involves reading assignments that aides in thoroughly understanding the learning objective. Teachers are required to submit a lesson snippet of the learning objective. This is for the implementing the learning objective in real time. The workshop provides a peer observation activity to further ensure the learning objective is being used. It is the intent that all the activities, discussion and assessments help the educator achieve the needed outcome(s).
This workshop will focus on the following areas:
UNIT/WEEK 1
Learning Objective:
What is Real Writing? | (1)What is real writing to you? (2) List some ideas that you can use that are presented in these reading and elaborate. (3) What are current strategies that you use? (4) What happens when writing is "real" to the students? (5) Do you think more training is needed for none language arts teachers?
UNIT/WEEK2
Learning Objective:
Writing for a Real Audience! | (1) Describe how "Writing for a real audience!" look in your classroom? (2) Do you believe that WAC concepts is truly being used in your school? (3) Please describe some challenges or successes of implementation?
UNIT/WEEK3
Learning Objective:
Writing for a Real Purpose! | (1) How do you use "Writing for a real purpose!" in your classroom? (2) Please share some example (3) How do most of your students respond? (4) If you are familiar with "Writing for a real purpose!":-).....please explain some successes and failures (or not so great successes)!
UNIT/WEEK4
Learning Objective:
Writing Connected to Content! | (1) Do you think many teachers outside of ELA dedicated enough time to WAC? (2) If you are an ELA or other content teacher, please share your thoughts! (3) Is there enough training at your school for non ELA teachers in WAC?
Extended Activities
Create Plan of Action using the following:
- S.M.A.R.T. Goals
- Specific (simple, sensible, significant)
- Measurable (meaningful, motivating)
- Achievable (agreed, attainable)
- Relevant (reasonable, realistic and resourced, results-based)
- Time bound (time-based, time limited, time/cost limited, timely, time-sensitive)
To make sure your goals are clear and reachable, each one should be:
Extended Activities
Components of Action Plan:
Identify task
Gather data
Develop strategies
Implement plan
Some References:
- First, you must Register on our online course system. Click the Register button below.
- After you created an account, login and select the course and pay ($65 per course).
