Teaching English in the Secondary School

Catalog description

This course will explore issues regarding the theory and practice of teaching English/Language Arts at the secondary level. The course aims to explore sociocultural views of language and learning as they apply to course readings and discussion. English education students will engage in ways of teaching adolescents the skills of writing (creative to expository), reading, responding to literature, listening, speaking, and exploring new media while considering student and community contexts. You will write lesson and unit plans, experimenting with classroom management styles, assessment techniques, and ways of differentiating instruction as you create and participate in a community of teachers. The focus of the class will always be to facilitate the group as stronger, more insightful, more creative and more compassionate teachers upon entry into the secondary English language arts classroom.