RPDP/SNWP Just Voices Reading & Writing Workshop

September 23 – November 11, 2009; Wednesdays from 4pm – 8pm
2 Graduate Credits from UNLV- $90.00
RPDP, 515 W. Cheyenne, Class Room 37;
(Course # 531D: Just Voices Rdg Wrtg WS/UNLV Call# 91446)

Instructor: Saralyn Lasley

Course Description:

This two-credit course is designed for secondary ELA, reading and social studies teachers. It will utilize reading, writing and inquiry to explore issues related to critical literacy and the teaching of social justice. Participants will engage in a variety of literacy and community building activities designed to model how to use workshop methodologies to teach social justice and build a reading and writing community in their classrooms.

Course Objectives:

• Increase critical literacy and create a community of writers who strive to heighten social justice and a tolerance for divergent thinking through critical analysis and interaction with a variety of reading and writing genres
• Develop workshop methodology to implement a reading/writing workshop in the secondary classroom
• Use writing to understand, develop and explain personal experiences and professional practices
• Explore what it means to be members of a writing community and develop an awareness of self as writer, reader and responder
• Develop a greater repertoire of classroom instructional strategies and resources for reading comprehension, literary analysis, critical thinking, and writing skills in correlation to CCSD curriculum.
• Create and present a social justice teaching unit incorporating CCSD curriculum with resources and strategies from the course.

Course Requirements:

Attendance is mandatory at all sessions; and a completed unit plan, due at end of course

This class CANNOT be used for initial licensure or to REMOVE special provisions on a license.

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