EDU-776 Motivation and Engagement of Adolescent Readers and Writers (1)

In this course, participants examine the factors that support engagement and motivation of adolescent readers and writers. Adolescents have distinct identities that inform their relationship to reading and writing, identities that have been formed over the course of many years of experiences in schools. Participants identify ways to positively engage and motivate students as readers and writers. This work is essential for students entering secondary grades with negative academic identities informed by prior academic experiences. Increasingly negative identities are inversely associated with future academic outcomes. By unpacking the factors that impact identity, motivation, and engagement, participants are equipped to design lessons that positively support positive identity formation by their students. Grading: A-F only. Restriction: Teaching (MAT) [City Teaching Alliance].