Standards
Standards: National Teachers Standards
Standard IX: Writing- Accomplished Early Adolescence/English Language Arts teachers provide instruction in the skills, process, and knowledge needed for writing to ensure that their students write effectively across many genres and for a variety of purposes and audiences.
Ways to achieve this standard:
Teacher
- Recognizes that writing is a social act.
- Provides students with a clear understanding of the connections among purpose, audience, and form.
- Understand that there are many styles of writing and many voices appropriate for particular audience and purpose.
- Know that the forms, approaches, tools, styles, and conventions used in writing in different genres that can assist students in communicating ideas.
- Guide students to understand the power of word choice to create tone and to affect meaning.
- Aware that grammar and usage are most effectively taught in the context of writing for real purpose and audiences.
- Help students understand writing as a process of thinking and rethinking, writing and rewriting.
- Know that infrastructure of effective writing, provide students with direct instruction in the areas of organization developing ideas and evidence, vocabulary, sentence structure, tone, usage, and voice.
- Know that writing well is a skill best acquired through active practice, students are most motivated to write when they are allowed to address issues and ideas that have meaning in their lives.
- Understand that writing to learn is a valuable activity, encourage students to use writing to assist their learning across all subjects in the curriculum
Resource: National Board For Professional Teaching Standards