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Methods of Teaching English
and the Language Arts
This course is designed to acquaint students with principles underlying effective middle and secondary school English teaching. It includes practice in planning, conducting, and evaluating activities that promote secondary students' growth as readers and writers.
A. Students will increase their ability to state goals
for teaching English
and will relate these goals to
1. Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction
Standards
for Teacher Development and Licensure
(see them in
context)
2. Wisconsin's
Model
Academic Standards for the English Language Arts
3. Knowledge of how diverse learners develop the ability
to use language
4. A coherent personal philosophy of teaching that incorporates
broad social and intellectual purposes
5. Specific instructional plans.
B. Given responsibility to teach a class in the language arts (reading and literature, writing, speaking and listening, studying language, using media and technology, research and inquiry), students will be able to
1. Locate resources (background information, teaching
plans and activities, materials for students)
2. Develop activities that engage learners' interest
and promote attainment of stated goals
3. Estimate students' interest and anticipate situations
that could hinder learning
4. Develop short- and long-term plans that are thematically
coherent and practical
5. Adapt instruction for individuals and groups with
special needs
6. Evaluate student work in meaningful ways that help
students learn
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