Literacy at college: non-credit Performa training course

Do your students have difficulty understanding writing instructions, respecting the communicative intent of the text to be produced, organizing their ideas or respecting intellectual property?

In this training course, you’ll be closely accompanied in the planning, design, implementation and evaluation of writing support methods specific to your teaching program.

• Understand the importance of your role in helping students acquire disciplinary literacies.
• Recognize and identify the characteristics of the types of texts used in your discipline.
• For example: laboratory or research reports, essays, project presentations, summaries, etc.
• Design or adapt a teaching/learning method for disciplinary writing and experiment with it in class.
• For example: instructions, writing guide, example or counter-example text, revision grid, evaluation criteria, tutorial, etc.).
• Evaluate the benefits of training and draw conclusions for your own practice.

Take advantage of this unique opportunity to join members of the college community committed to improving students’ disciplinary literacy skills.

• Click here to find out more and view the synchronous session schedule.
• To register, please fill in this registration form or contact akhan@dawsoncollege.qc.ca before Jan. 29, 2025.