Effective writing: Teaching strategies
Purpose
Effective writing: Teaching strategies addresses the complexity of writing by breaking down the important components of effective writing instruction. Participants will have the opportunity to explore a range of effective classroom practices and explicit teaching strategies, aligned to the current research behind effective writing instruction.
Who should participate?
Kindergarten to Year 2 teachers and teachers of emergent writers in Years 3 to 6.
Mode of delivery
Online learning modules
Content
This online course includes 9 modules:
- Module 1: Key considerations for effective writing instruction
- Module 2: The teaching and learning cycle
- Module 3: The support cycle for teaching writing
- Module 4: The writing process
- Module 5: Explicit teaching strategies
- Module 6: Feedback for writing
- Module 7: Assessment for writing
- Module 8: Differentiation and adjustments
- Module 9: Building a community of writers
Completing this course will help you to:
- understand how evidence-based research informs how writing is taught and assessed
- understand how explicit instruction is incorporated at every stage of the writing process
- understand how students can give and receive explicit feedback at every stage of the writing process.
This is the second course in a professional learning suite providing teachers of emergent writers with opportunities to develop and refine their effective classroom practices for explicit writing instruction.
Register for ‘Effective writing: Teaching strategies’ via MyPL (course code TPL00360).
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Contacts
If you have any questions, contact literacy.numeracy@det.nsw.edu.au.