Every teacher is a writing teacher. Common Core State Standards have brought a renewed focus on non-fiction writing across content areas. Participants will learn the difference between merely assigning writing and teaching solid writing skills.
9. The National Council of Teachers
of English (2011) points out that
writing about content materials,
along with using strategies to read
and comprehend those materials,
helps students understand and
learn the concepts.
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10. Research tells us that students show
greater interest and perform at
higher levels of learning when they
are required to organize facts
around major concepts and then
actively construct their own
understanding of those concepts.
They are also better at retaining
knowledge.
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19. It is easier to act your way
into a new way of thinking
than it is to think your way
into a new way of acting.
-Burchell & Robin, The Great Workplace
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25. There are one-story intellects,
two-story intellects,
and three-story intellects with skylights.
All fact collectors who have
no aim beyond their facts
are one-story people.
Two-story people compare, reason,
generalize, using the labor of
fact collectors as their own.
Three-story people idealize,
imagine, predict—their best illumination
comes through the skylight.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes
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32. SKILLS ASSESSMENT
Create a written reflection in essay form that includes
a minimum of 5 of the following 10 elements:
•A minimum of one hyperlink
•Different paragraph styles
•List styles with more than one level
•Three embedded images that come from Creative
Commons or public domain sources
•A mindmap
•Multiple columns
•A table from one of 24 styles
•A chart from one of 48 styles
•A header and footer
•A watermark
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