These three inquiry paths invite teacher candidates to explore issues associated with writing instruction that are often addressed in teacher preparation: in English teaching methods courses, the question of how to teach standardized content without producing formulaic results from students; in
writing pedagogies courses, the pros and cons of machine scoring; and in linguistics courses, the challenge of providing feedback that is sensitive to students» linguistic backgrounds and abilities.
Because writing instruction is a unifying concern for English teacher educators in methods courses,
writing pedagogies courses, and linguistics courses, several possible inquiry paths through the archive for instructors and teacher candidates in each of these courses are possible.
Like
writing pedagogies courses, linguistics courses at my university and others are often taken by students from majors besides secondary English education.
Required linguistics courses in teacher preparation programs, however, are often designed and taught independently of teaching methods and
writing pedagogies courses, as well as teacher candidates» field experiences.
Tulley's (2013) survey of
writing pedagogies courses indicated that more than half of such courses provide few opportunities for field experiences, and when they do, discussion of issues like feedback strategies remains mostly abstract.
Additionally, linguistics courses, like
writing pedagogies courses, are often taken by students in majors other than education, making it difficult for instructors to include field placements in local schools or concrete discussion of teacher feedback strategies in linguistics courses.
These paths provide opportunities for instructors of English teaching methods courses,
writing pedagogies courses, and linguistics courses to investigate with teacher candidates issues that are commonly addressed in those three types of courses, like modeling writing, machine scoring, and responding with sensitivity to writers who are English language learners.
Reframing responses to student writing: Promising young writers and
the writing pedagogies course.
Not exact matches
Fuel Education's world language
courses by Middlebury Interactive utilize a
pedagogy and teaching methods refined over decades that include real - world reading,
writing, listening, and speaking activities combined with immersive learning to accelerate language acquisition.
With the input of colleagues who teach
writing pedagogies and linguistics
courses at my university, I designed an interview protocol meant to elicit a variety of information about curriculum, instruction, beliefs about teaching
writing, and the particular qualities of their students from participating teachers.
Since I am currently implementing the SWAP for the first time with teacher candidates, what follows are three examples of paths, or sequences of assignments, that demonstrate the potential uses of the archive in English teacher preparation
courses on teaching methods,
writing pedagogies, and linguistics.
Alternatively, at universities where there is less occasion to coordinate across methods
courses or limited opportunities within those
courses for teacher candidates to discuss
writing instruction (e.g., in
writing pedagogies and linguistics
courses that are also taken by students of other majors), English teacher educators might foster online dialog with teacher candidates at other institutions that teach similar
courses.
Many universities (including my own) require teacher candidates to take a
course that focuses on
writing pedagogies and is separate from other English and education
courses.
English teacher educators who teach
courses on English teaching methods,
writing pedagogies, and linguistics share a unifying concern:
writing instruction.
This unique program combines intensive, craft - focused creative
writing workshops with elective
courses and internships in publishing,
pedagogy, literature, and language.
This is largely because the bulk of scholarship on email
pedagogy has been in the context of first - year legal
writing courses, and this Article is, in part, a response to that prior scholarship.
Similarly, the endless navel - gazing discussions about teaching
pedagogy, exam
writing and exam - taking advice, practical credentials for doctrinal faculty, curricular reform, law school rankings, and the very identity and purpose of a law school and its relationship to lawyering would benefit from some thought and understanding about the role of the LRW
course.