English Language Arts

Whether entering the workforce after high school, tech school, or college, students need to develop writing skills for the work settings. These writing skills complement and extend academic writing and engage students in authentic tasks.  Writing in career fields extends far beyond resumes and applications. From reports and proposals to memos and customer communication, this writing is rigorous and demands many of the skills found in the ELA standards. Join us in this 90 minute webinar to examine workplace writing tasks and how integrating them in your secondary and elementary courses will help students learn the ELA standards and prepare for lifelong literacy.

By the time students get tot he revision stage of writing, they often lack the motivation and skill to revise their writing effectively. In this session participants will share and research ideas for improving student willingness to revise their writing and skills in doing so. The class will begin with a live, online session for participants to meet and share ideas. This will be followed by independent time to read, research, reflect, and possibly test some revision activities. A final live, online session will allow participants to share their findings and plan for next steps.

The COE Local ELA Moodle is a course for teacher access only. Teachers enroll as educators in the Moodle course and download the tasks for their class. Contact your District Assessment Coordinator to obtain the enrollment key to access the course.