Online Course Agenda

Order Description Guidelines for Course Agenda Design a course agenda for an 8-week online writing skills course using the following components. Please pay close attention to the order of design and what’s required in each section. See suggestions at the end of this document, however you are the expert and I trust your judgement on the appropriate information for each section. THIS IS NOT AN ESSAY per se but a writing course agenda. Week 1 is an example of how course agenda should look on a document. Week 1: Topic of Week - Overview of Course (ELA standards, final project, and rubric) AIM Students will: • Review of ELA standards • Review of Final Project • Review of rubrics Weekly Overview: This week, we will begin our study of writing skills strategies….. LEARN • Read Chapters 1 and 2 in The Elements of Style by E.B. White •Read Sections 1 and 2 in Pattern Based Writing text. • View PPT with audio – General Overview of Writing Skills • View PPT with audio – Writing Process APPLY DF: Pattern Based Writing text addresses the Six-traits in Writing and the writing process as a whole (see section 2). Consider a research topic that interests you. Which topic addresses the skills necessary to write proficiently? What do your students struggle most with in writing? Assignment p. 40 - Look closely at journal article and identify specific ways in which the Six-traits of Writing are evident in the student writing. Give specific examples from both assigned readings? Give an explanation for your answer. Week 2: Topic of Week – Review of Writing Processes (Compare) • Aim o Students will: • Weekly Overview: • Learn: • Apply: Week 3: Topic of Week – Learning Assessment Techniques (LAT) Activity • Aim o Students will: • Weekly Overview: • Learn: • Apply: Week 4: Topic of Week – Assign weekly unit on an assigned area to teach • Aim o Students will: • Weekly Overview: • Learn: • Apply: Week 5: Topic of Week – Draft of teaching unit • Aim o Students will: • Weekly Overview: • Learn: • Apply: Week 6: Topic of Week – Submit Final Draft of teaching unit • Aim o Students will: • Weekly Overview: • Learn: • Apply: Week 7: Topic of Week – Implementation of Teaching Unit • Aim o Students will: • Weekly Overview: • Learn: • Apply: o Use your lesson plan with classroom students and video presentation. Make sure to get parental video release to video students. o Include intro. in video, students writing, and demonstrate use of the rubrics for scoring Week 8: Topic of Week – Sharing results using screencast, mini-videos, pics of kids, sharing rubric on how they did, and reflection. Post on screencast on discussion forum (DF) and respond to 2 classmates. • Aim o Students will: • Weekly Overview: • Learn: • Apply: Suggestions for this Course Agenda 1. Week 1 – assign a Discussion Forum question on…. What do your students struggle most with in writing? 2. Week 2 – how to teach each process; types of writing 3. Week 3 - Instructor can focus on Week 1 responses to discussion forum question and teach strategies for those areas using screencast. 4. Week 4 – To engage the learning teachers could create a screencast and skill sets presentations on strategies for teaching different types of writing and grammar and share during week 7 or 8. o Types of writing *Expository *Scientific *Persuasive *Opinion *Information o Skillsets *Grammar *Elaboration *Organization *Transitions *Sources *Vocabulary *Grading 5. You could provide resources or have students come up with weekly resources in a WIKI or Blog, then create presentation. 6. Some resources that can be used: *Florida ELA writing standards *https://patternbasedwriting.com/PatternBasedWriting_Student_Writing_Success.pdf •https://writingfix.com/6_traits/organization.htm •Have a Meeting With Your Writing Teacher Self” The Reading Teacher Vol. 69 Issue 2 pp. 219–222 © 2015 International Literacy Association October/November 2015. Discuss actions teachers can take in their classrooms to give writing instruction a boost. (article provided) •"Modes, Genres, and Formats—Oh My!” The Reading Teacher Vol. 69 Issue 5 © 2016 International Literacy Association March/April 2016. Discuss how these three areas are related, but different and how they impact the writing curriculum. (article provided) •"Stop Doing Dumb Things” April/May 2014 Reading Today, pp. 29-30 Discuss writing instruction practices that don’t work and compare them to practices that do. (article provided)