01004A001 Transitional English
Transitional English course design and instruction builds on students’ previous experiential and academic knowledge to further develop and refine skills in reading, critical thinking and analysis, and writing to enhance students’ transition to post-secondary coursework. This course focuses on integration of the content competencies, which are aligned to the learning standards, in the areas of reading, critical thinking and analysis, and writing. The course and instructional delivery methods must fully integrate across these three competency areas and avoid teaching the reading and writing competencies in an isolated, subskills fashion. The course pedagogy and related text selections must be organized around themes, critical issues, or concepts directing student focus to larger ideas that foster critical thinking, reading, and writing skills while also cultivating students’ meta-cognitive and essential employability skills. The course can be used as a fourth-year Language Arts class to meet State and local high school graduation requirements.
(Available SY 2022-.)