This session explores the disciplinary literacies of English language arts and features examples that engage students in authentic purposes for reading, writing, speaking/listening, and viewing. Participants will explore what it might look like to apprentice students into the types of thinking, problem-solving, and communicating that are valued in fields such as journalism, communications, and publishing. The session also explores the assessment practices that intentionally support students as they are apprenticed into ways of thinking and communicating valued in English language arts classrooms.
This session is co-sponsored and presented by the Disciplinary Literacy Task Force of the GELN and the Michigan Assessment Consortium.
Creating Coherence: Instruction and assessment in secondary classrooms that engages and motivates today's learners (Available to ALN attendees only. Need the password? Contact klafave@michiganassessmentconsortiuim.org)
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