EDUC 744 Teaching and Assessing Writing with the 6 Traits. Instructor and Course Author, Dennis O'Connor (3 Graduate Units)
A 100% Online Course. Information - using 6-trait rubrics for middle school and high school writing assessment.
Learn how to teach and assess writing more effectively and help students understand the 6-Traits of good writing (voice, ideas, word choice, organization, sentence fluency & conventions). Explore strategies to enable learners to progress through higher standards and improve test scores. Participants get extensive hands-on practice assessing a variety of student samples using the 6-Traits rubric.
Designed for ESL/ELL teachers, English and language arts teachers, teachers interested in writing across the curriculum, special education teachers, technical and community college writing instructors, and curriculum coordinators.
I love teaching this course. This summer we'll work with great teachers from around the world to better understand how the writing process and the 6 traits work together to create a powerfull writing/reading workshop in any classroom.
The course will give you more than a year's worth of ideas and new resources. Great for license renewal, and teacher spirit renewal!