The teacher understands and uses a variety of instructional strategies to encourage learners to develop deep understanding of content areas and their connections, and to build skills to apply knowledge in meaningful ways.

Performance 8.1

Candidates plan instruction based on ELA curricular requirements and standards.Rationale can be found here

Evidence 1: Writing Sequences (ENG 329)

Prompt

This assignment is lesson planning to teach four genres of writing: fiction, personal narrative, argumentation, and research. You will plan through five stages, which roughly correspond to pre-writing, writing, editing/evaluation. This will happen in five stages. A sample of this assignment will be provided.

Samples:

  1. Excellent performance: Fall ’19 / Winter ’20 / Fall ’20

  2. Average performance: Fall ’19 / Winter ’20 / Fall ’20

  3. Poor performance: Fall ’19 / Winter ’20 / Fall ’20

Evidence 2: Syllabus (ENG 329)

The syllabus for Teaching Writing in Secondary Schools (ENG 329) can be found here: Fall ’19 / Winter ’20 / Fall ’20

Evidence 3: Powerpoint on any topic addressed in the standards (ENG 329)

You can found powerpoints showing how students learn and prepare to teach writing in secondary schools based on ELA standards here: Fall ’19a, Fall ’19b, Winter ’20, Fall ’20.