Incorporating+Writing+Into+the+Curriculum


 * Session 1: Introduction to the Pennsylvania Reading, #|Writing Speaking and** **Listening Standards.** **Read the following questions, and post your responses to the discussion board.**
 * Why is it important to get your students to become familiar with the standards?
 * Why do you feel a review of SAS is imperative and what are the reasons to teach literacy skills across all content areas?
 * What do you think is the accountability of the #|teacher to establish literacy skills across the curriculum?
 * What is the responsibility of the #|teacher to teach students to write across all content areas?
 * How do you know when you should ask for assistance in teaching literacy skills across the curriculum?
 * How do you assist #|a teacher to identify the need for students to comprehend text and provide them with encouragement to motivate them?
 * Whose responsibility is it to examine the rights of the student to know what behaviors they need to engage in and how becoming an excellent reader will enable them to succeed in all phases of life?
 * Whose responsibility is it to examine the rights of the student to have #|a teacher who will take the time to teach them how to become successful in all content areas


 * Session 2: Common Core vs. Pennsylvania Standards**
 * Discuss how Pennsylvania’s current standards align with Common Core.
 * Identify the difference between the Standards and the Common Core.
 * Recognize the elements that will guide transition to Common Core.
 * Discuss the importance of the connection between Common Core and Common Assessments.
 * Evaluate the SAS Curriculum Framework to measure its correlation to Common Core

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 * Session 3: Crosswalk of Pennsylvania Standards and the Common Core Standards**
 * Read the following questions, and post your responses to the discussion board.**
 * Discuss the standard bands for Grade levels for K–8; grade bands for 9–10 and 11–12.
 * Discuss the importance on why the focus is on results rather than means.
 * What is the integrated model of literacy.
 * Discuss why the importance of research and media skills blended into the Standards as a whole
 * Identify the shared responsibility by all teachers for students’ literacy development and #|writing to be placed into the curriculum.
 * Discuss the standards on the focus and coherence in instruction and assessment.
 * Demonstrate the alignment of product pedagogy.
 * Discuss what is not covered by the Standards.

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 * Session 4 and 5: Practice of Effective Literacy and #|Writing Instruction in the Classroom**
 * Read the following questions, and post your responses to the discussion board.**
 * Discuss three effective elements in writing practice.
 * Discuss research based perspectives on catering to the diversity and needs of ESLstudents and struggling writers
 * Discuss balanced literacy instruction focusing on independent learning and writing.


 * Session 6: Importance of Incorporating Writing into the Classroom**


 * Discussion Questions:**
 * Why is it important to get your students to write?
 * What are the responsibilities of the teacher to establish good writing skills across the curriculum?
 * Identify the responsibility of the teacher to establish good writing skills across the curriculum.
 * How much should the Language Art's teacher be responsible for in establishin good writing skills?
 * How much responsibility should be placed on the teacher to teach writing and it's importance to a student's future?
 * Identify when writing across the curriculum should be implemented by other content area teachers.
 * Examine the necessity of the student to have a teacher who will set up the need for students to write effectively and provide them with encouragement.
 * Examine the rights of the student to know what behaviors they need to engage in how writing will enable them to succeed in all phases of life.
 * Why is it important for a student to have a teacher who will take the time to teach them how to become successful writers?

**Session 7: Creating Successful Writers**

**Discussion Questions:**
 * Identify and discuss how a lack of writing skills, lack of interest in subject area and special education needs can create problems and make it more difficult for students to become successful writer.
 * Discuss how a teachers negative attitude toward writing can inhibit the student and create a major roadblock to your student enjoying writing.
 * Identify and discuss reasons why most students who choose not to write have not been encouraged to do so or have not been given positive reinforcement.
 * Recognize that when a teacher believes that students can write successfully, the expectations about writing and performance is raised.
 * List and discuss ways that teachers can use positive reinforcement as keys to students becoming flourishing writers.


 * Session 8: Importance of Implementing Literacy Development**
 * Read the following questions, and post your responses to the discussion board.**
 * Discuss the need for multilevel, flexible, and small –group instruction.
 * List and discuss the importance of professional development in literacy in all content areas.
 * Explain and discuss the importance of approaching reading and writing as a developmental process.
 * Discuss the importance of teachers learning more about their students as readers and writers.
 * What are your thoughts regarding the link below and the set up of a differentiated classroom and lessons.

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[] Navigate through this website. I use this website a lot when teaching writing strategies. What is your opinion on the effectiveness of the Pennsylvania Writing Project Website for teachers and resources.
 * Session: 9**
 * Post responses to Discussion Board:**

Topic writing is the most important piece of writing across content areas. Most teachers are unfamiliar with how the topics for Writing Assessment are written and approved. I am asking you to submit 10 topic prompts in your content area for you to use as a writing prompt. I will let you know which prompts would be accepted, and which ones would be denied. Use the item sampler as a tool to help you with the previous prompts that have been used for the Writing Assessment.
 * Session: 10 and 11**
 * Post prompts to Discussion Board:**

[|www.pdesas.org] - find the Keystone Exams for composition, compare them to the Writing Assessment that now exists for 8th and 11th grade. After analyzing the anchors for the Keystone Exams, how do you think they will differ or compare to the current Writing Assessment? If you are not a member of SAS, you will need to register as a new user to SAS. The first two websites are articles about Incorporating Writing Into the Classroom. Discuss your thoughts about what the articles are stating? The third website has several access points to areas of reference to teachers for writing strategies. Navigate through the links on the websites. What do you feel are the pros and cons to the following websites?
 * Session 12:**
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 * Session 13 and 14:**
 * Post response to Discussion Board:**

Final day of #|online course is for you to report online 300 words or less your view of how effective it could be to Incorporate Writing into the Classroom. Please discuss the positive and negative, how it will affect education and curriculum, and how do you feel students will be affected by all content area teachers, teaching writing?
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 * Session 15:**
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