Teacher Candidates will engage in the processes and products of writing, reading, speaking, listening, and viewing instruction, including the integration of writing across content areas. Specific focus is placed on how communication varies across platforms and cultures and why this is important to students' language and literacy development. This class may include students from multiple sections.
Must be seeking a Bachelor of Applied Science in Teacher Education degree to enroll. If interested, visit pencol.edu/bas
Prerequisites
Teacher Education BAS Program Admittance; Concurrent enrollment in EDUC 445
Course Outcomes
- Examine the writing process, its components, and its recursive, interactive, and collaborative nature, including the traits of effective writing.
- Analyze how purpose, audience, mode, form, and perspective shape writing.
- Implement strategies for writing related to topic, research, reliable sources, citing, and use of technology.
- Analyze the influence of media on culture and on people's actions and communication.
- Describe how individual, social, and cultural factors influence interpersonal communication.
- Describe the characteristics and components of effective speaking and strategies for communicating effectively in large and small groups.
- Analyze how communication forms and styles can be different amongst individuals from varying backgrounds and the importance of understanding this for culturally and trauma informed and responsive approaches to teaching.