Global Teaching Certificate IV

Teaching Essentials for Reading & Writing 

Course Overview:

In this course, you will become a specialist in teaching reading and writing in face-to-face (F2F) or virtual classes. Your knowledge and expertise will be fully developed if you are new to the field. If you already have experience, your professional competencies will be greatly enhanced in terms of your ability to teach students how to read and write effectively. The learning experience will enrich your understanding of how students learn how to read and write. You will also become proficient in your ability to teach reading and writing strategies. As a result, students will maximize their comprehension and ability to use information from diverse readings to engage in communication. They will also become creative, engaging writers because you will know how to bring out the best of their potential. Standards and assessment for reading and writing are also discussed. In the end, you will be compliant with international teaching and accreditation standards.

Course Outline:

This course will help you develop both your background knowledge and teaching expertise so you know the “what”, “how”, and “why” for successful teaching of reading and writing. It is divided as follows:

  • Introduction: Topic & Relevance sections
  • Knowledge: Theory, research, and understanding the “Why”
  • Application: Putting theory, principles, concepts into practice
  • Exploration: Professional Development Tools

Topics:

We will discuss the following in the course:

Knowledge:

  • Essentials: Krashen’s Optimal Input Hypothesis, intensive vs. extensive reading, reading process, types of writing, mechanics and quality of writing,  etc.
  • Research: Types of research, theories and hypotheses, reading fluency development, graded readers, L1 vs. L2 reading, “good” and “effective” readers, decoding vs. encoding, process writing, etc.
  • Theory & The Classroom: Reading difficulties, activating background knowledge, stages of a reading and writing lesson, challenges and pitfalls, cognitive processes during reading and writing, types of errors, etc.
  • Approaches & Methods: The relation of diverse approaches and methods with how to teach reading and writing, reading and writing in a post-methods era,  learning outcomes, accuracy, personalization, etc. 
  • Standards & Testing: Standards (i.e. CEFR, WIDA, Common Core, GSE),  modes of communication (CEFR), testing, proficiency, etc. 

Application:

  • Fundamentals: Engaging learners for reading and writing, appropriacy of content, comprehension leveling,  reading aloud, form vs. meaning, inductive reading, expansive writing, writing process, etc. 
  • Teaching Reading:  Teaching procedure and aims for reading, teaching strategies and techniques for comprehension, lesson planning, cultural personalization,  preparatory teaching (e.g. predicting, pre-teaching), skimming-scanning-inferencing, productive tasking (e.g. speaking and writing),  etc.
  • Teaching Writing: Teaching procedure and aims for writing, strategies for promoting student creativity, social media writing, genre writing (e.g. letters, emails, recipes, instructions, etc.), essay writing, dealing with plagiarism, correcting writing, academic writing, administering time for writing tasks, etc.
  • Teaching Strategies: Approaches to teaching strategies, teaching strategies per lesson and over time, concept checks, shadow reading, repeated reading, echo reading, summarizing, paraphrasing, guessing meaning from context,  brainstorming, mind-mapping freewriting, outlining, peer feedback, strategies for elaborated writing (e.g. adding on, metaphors, challenges, wording enhancements, slogans and phrases, etc.), building a repertoire of strategies, etc. 
  • Classroom Assessment: formative vs. summative assessment, top down vs. bottom up processing, aims for reading and writing, accuracy, form, comprehension, L2 output, sequences for reading and writing assessment, post-assessment analysis, CEFR-based tasks, rubrics, international test familiarization, projects, technology for assessment, Bloom’s Taxonomy, etc.

The course includes:

  • Teaching insights 
  • Vast collection of interactive activities 
  • Case studies
  • Teaching anecdotes
  • Charts & tables 

$159 / seat  

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