Teaching and learning English language arts in, middle-level and high school classrooms. Develops, candidates' pedagogical content knowledge by, focusing on a student-centered view of teaching, literature and composition to adolescents., Candidates read about, discuss, and experience, the importance of writing to learning and, discovery, the student-teacher conference,, writing process in theory and practice, the, evaluation of writing, the place of writing in, literature classes, and the powerful current that, can be transmitted among teenage writers. Drawing, on reader-response theory, candidates learn how, they can encourage students to respond to texts, and lead them from those first responses into, analysis of both the text itself and their, reading of it. Based on the tenets of backward, design, the course looks at planning,, organization, and assessment--articulating, objectives and linking them to standards,, teaching, and assessment. Introduces, differentiation of instruction in support of, meaningful learning experiences responsive to, individual differences, interests, developmental, levels, and cultural contexts. Candidates write, the teaching plan for their December teaching.
- Teacher: Maika Yeigh