Course Description:This course explores ways to use checklists to help students set goals to improve their writing. Participants will learn how to design a checklist to support targeted practices for student writing. Participants will be provided with a planning template and resources with examples to scaffold the process when creating a checklist that supports their own writing classroom needs. Although the content examples of this course are for the writing classroom, the ideas for how to create and use checklists are transferable to all content areas and grades.

Course Objectives:
1.Learn how to use checklists to improve student writing.
2.Analyze writing to use a checklist.
3.Discuss ways in which self and peer checklists could be used in your writing classroom.
4. simple ways to get started in your classroom with self and peer-writing checklists to improve student writing.

Audience: Teachers K-12

Presenters: Christopher Karle & Rebecca Shea