| CODE | LAS1061 | ||||||||||||
| TITLE | Unleashing the Writer in Every Child – The Writing Workshop Approach | ||||||||||||
| UM LEVEL | I - Introductory Level | ||||||||||||
| MQF LEVEL | 5 | ||||||||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 8 | ||||||||||||
| DEPARTMENT | Centre for the Liberal Arts and Sciences | ||||||||||||
| DESCRIPTION | This Unit is intended for both teachers and parents of learners in Middle and Secondary school cycles (from Yr 3 upwards) who wish to explore how to support and enhance the children’s fascination with writing as a self-exploratory, imaginative and persuasive medium. Writing strategies will be applied for both the home and school contexts, with importance being given to the mutual reinforcement of writing carried out at home and at school. The Writing Workshop approach allows for different young writers to work concurrently and collaboratively at their own preferred learning speed and mode, and is thus a powerful and successful tool for differentiated teaching and learning. Participants will themselves engage in writing so as to experience first-hand the strategies being proposed and how these can be adapted to diverse contexts, including electronic media, to facilitate differentiated learning. The presence of both teachers and parents in the Unit will create a strong mutual learning environment that will help both understand how to synergize home and school learning through home-school cooperation. Learning Outcomes: 1. Knowledge & Understanding: By the end of the Unit the student will be able to: - Comprehend the key writing process components (pre-writing, drafting and redrafting, response, revising, editing, publishing) and relationship between them (linear, recursive); - Distinguish between key writing process concepts such as correcting and giving response; different forms of editing and revising; audience, purpose, voice and medium; - Distinguish between Assessment for Learning and Assessment of Learning strategies in writing; - Understand differences and links between writing for personal purposes and writing for assessment; - Comprehend how the Writing Workshop approach enhances differentiated teaching and learning; - Appreciate the contribution that home-school writing collaboration can give to home-school links and children’s learning. 2. Skills: By the end of the Unit the student will be able to: - Develop own writing skills in a variety of genres/types, including Personal Experience Narrative and Writing-to-Learn; - Apply different writing and writing feedback strategies to both home and school contexts; - Use different forms of Assessment for Learning and Assessment of Learning strategies that are fit for purposes according to different learning contexts; - Learn how to use specific software and media as writing interactive environments; - Learn how to use technology to enhance specific aspects of the writing process; - (for teachers) integrate writing process strategies and the Writing Workshop approach in schemes of work; - (for parents) co-ordinate and synergize the application of writing process strategies at home with school work. Main Text/s and any supplementary readings: Core texts: - Bryne, D. (1988) Teaching Writing Skills. Longman. - Lane, B. (2015) After the End: Teaching and Learning Creative Revision, 2nd Edition. Heinemann. - Spiteri, A. (2001) Il-Kitba-Bħala-Process - It-Tagħlim Modern tal-Kitba bil-Malti. Monograph. Għaqda ta’ l-Għalliema tal-Malti, Malta (will be provided as PDF by the co-ordinating lecturer to participants). - The Malta Writing Programme. Accessed on 6th September 2017. Available at: http://mwp.skola.edu.mt/ - Wilcox, A. (2013) Descriptosaurus: Supporting Creative Writing for Ages 8–14. David Fulton Publishers. Supplementary texts: - Carbott, P. (2001) How to Teach Fiction Writing at KS 2. David Fulton Publishers. - Carbott, P. (2001) How to Teach Story Writing at KS 1. David Fulton Publishers. - Davis, V.A. (2014) Reinventing Writing. The 9 Tools that are Changing Writing, Teaching and Learning or Ever. - Herrington, A. Hodgson, K. and Moran, C. (2009). Teaching the New Writing. Technology, Change and Assessment in the 21st Century Classroom. New York and London: Teachers College Press, Columbia University, and Berkeley, USA: The National Writing Project. - Morgan, M. (2001) How to Teach Poetry Writing at KS 1. David Fulton Publishers. - Morgan, M. (2001) How to Teach Poetry Writing at KS 2. David Fulton Publishers. - National Writing Project. Accessed on 6th September 2017. Available at: https://www.nwp.org/ |
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| ADDITIONAL NOTES | Pre-Requisite knowledge, skills and competences: Minimum competence in Maltese or English: SEC 1-5. | ||||||||||||
| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Lecture, Seminar and Workshop | ||||||||||||
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