English Education Course(s)
Graduate
EN/ED 589: Boys and Literacy
Data from tests show that boys under perform girls in literacy. Using data from recent research and reports from teachers and students, this course will focus on creating literacy curriculum that is boy-friendly and will help boys improve their literacy skills. Understanding how boys think, perform, and what motivates them will be an integral part of this course. Literacy strategies, writing techniques, and books that motivate boys will be reviewed. View syllabus, PDF. Contact pd@adams.edu to register for course.
Print-based (open enrollment), 3 semester hours, tuition $555, fee $20
EN/ED 589: Creative Journaling
Creative Journaling is a content based course focused on the teacher as writer. Students of this course will journal write using the arts (art, music and photographs) to enhance writing skills and the communication process. The course is designed to foster and develop writing skills, to experience the therapeutic value of journal writing as well as see it as an integral part of the writing process. Journal writing allows the teacher as writer to think, feel and behave like a writer, so that transfer of journal writing to classroom instruction on writing is authentic, meaningful and useful. This course is designed for the teacher who is a writer, non-writer or reluctant writer. View syllabus, PDF. Contact pd@adams.edu to register for course.
Print-based (open enrollment), 3 semester hours, tuition $555, fee $20
EN/ED 589: Read Like a Writer: Collecting Mentor Texts to use with Your Writing Program
Read like a writer! Study how authors craft writing. Read from a wide variety of literature to collect mentor texts to use in your writing program. Use mentor texts to teach writing to meet writing content standards using your writing program, 6+1 trait, or focus on a genre or craft of writing. Choose selections that model the crafts of writing you want to teach from punctuation to literary devices. Use mentor texts as co-teachers of writing to inspire vision for writing, yours and your student’s. Organize your collection of mentor texts in a practical, useful reading log to make your writing program more alive and authentic. Create a unit study that is useful and practical to you. View syllabus, PDF. Click here to register for course.
Print-based (open enrollment), 3 semester hours, tuition $555, fee $20
