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SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY

SPECIAL TOPICS

WRITING ACROSS THE CURRICULUM: LANGUAGE & LEARNING

Summer Session, 1989

Instructor: Wendy Strachan

(July 4— August 11)

Monday - Friday

9:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.

Location: MPX 8633

PREREQUISITE:

Educ. 401/402 or equivalent.

ELIGIBILITY:

Participants will be teachers who have demonstrated enthusiasm and interest in

teaching writing and in using writing as a way of learning to think. Instructor

acceptance will be required.

"Those who can, do; those who understand, teach."

Lee Shulman

COURSE DESCRIPTION

Following the professional development model established in the Bay Area

Writing Project, this Summer Institute is structured as a collaborative teacher seminar.

OBJECTIVES

To inquire into the nature of writing as a social process central to individual

intellectual development.

To demonstrate a model of classroom interaction that is consistent with the

theory and practices being presented.

To draw on teachers' knowledge, experience and reflectiie responses as

contributions to the content of the course.

COURSE TOPICS INCLUDE:

* Planning writing: organising classes and lessons to include purposeful writing

assignments

* Evaluating writing

* Making sense and improving thinking skills through writing

* Writing as a way of learning and understanding in all subjects, including math

and science as well as literature and history

* Teaching students to write using the thinking processes of prewriting, drafting,

responding, revising, and editing.

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TEXTS:

A book of readings will be available for purchase at the start of class. Readings

include such writers as: Atwell, Calkins, Dyson, Goodman, Elbow, Graves, Krashen,

and Murray.

SCHEDULE:

The class meets daily for three weeks between July 24 - August 11, 1989.

9:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.

REQUIREMENTS FOR CREDIT:

1.

Prepare and give a presentation of a teaching strategy which you have found

successful in helping students write. (Details available from instructor.)

2.

Participate in all reading and writing activities scheduled during the course

including revising one extended piece of writing for publication in a class anthology.

3.

Develop plans for implementing a teaching sequence that incorporates aspects of

the theory and practices presented.