i3 BISD ECHS Newsletter
PD5-Writing to Learn (Low Stakes Writing)
WHAT IS WRITING TO LEARN?
WRITING ACROSS THE CURRICULUM (WAC)
In response to the need of students to learn content using a variety of strategies and their need to practice writing in a variety of contexts, many teachers have adopted the strategies associated with WAC. The following principles underlie WAC:
1. Writing promotes learning
2. Integration of writing and the writing process promotes student participation, a diversity of student voices, and engage students as critical thinkers while promoting their texts as important resources and thinking tools
3. Effective writing instruction integrates disciplines
4. The opportunity to write in every class develops good writers
5. Using writing as part of instruction can be used in every classroom
6. Only by practicing the thinking and writing conventions of an academic discipline will students begin to communicate effectively within that discipline
Active vs. Passive Learning
CIF Strategies
Writing Across the Curriculum
ELA
Math
Science
Social Studies
Webinar
Please watch this webinar with your department prior to your school's face-to-face professional development session.
https://cftexas.webex.com/ec3000/eventcenter/recording/recordAction.do?theAction=poprecord&AT=pb&internalRecordTicket=4832534b00000002e03f3983c2f24946a41119d9b415f59023018d08fe6c12dc9eb929323b189b3b&renewticket=0&isurlact=true&recordID=12510947&apiname=lsr.php&format=short&needFilter=false&&SP=EC&rID=12510947&RCID=ee4765561fd09d1505b7800ba2547e24&siteurl=cftexas&actappname=ec3000&actname=%2Feventcenter%2Fframe%2Fg.do&rnd=4686399363&entappname=url3000&entactname=%2FnbrRecordingURL.do
Dates for Face-to-Face PD5
2/16/16-Manzano M.S.
2/17/16-Hanna H.S.
2/22/16-Vela M.S.
2/23/16-Garcia M.S.
2/29/16-Stell M.S.
3/04/16-Perkins M.S.
3/11/16-Oliveira M.S.
3/21/16-Pace H.S.
4/05/16-Rivera H.S.