The National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) and its constituent groups have developed position statements on a variety of education issues vital to the teaching and learning of English language arts. These in depth and informative position statements are in allignment with current F.I.U. positions and policies.
NCTE-Statement-on-Gender-and-Language.
This statement reflects NCTE’s ongoing commitment to gender equity in education and is based in the contemporary understanding that gender is a cultural construct that is not limited to binary categories. It recommends usage that moves beyond the gender binary in order to include individuals whose identities might otherwise be unacknowledged or devalued.
Code of Best Practices in Fair Use
The committee created an introductory statement to accompany the Code of Best Practices that was adopted by NCTE in 2008. The statement reaffirms the value of that original document in serving as a guide for helping our students navigate the multifaceted media landscape to critically consume all forms of expression and fairly draw inspiration from them to create anew
This Students’ Right to Read statement represents an updated second edition that builds on the work of Council members dedicated to ensuring students the freedom to choose to read any text and opposing “efforts of individuals or groups to limit the freedom of choice of others.”
Parents as Partners in Promoting Writing Among Children & Youth
Writing is useful in the lives of children and youth. Parents and teachers can enrich the writing experiences of our young by coming to know about each other as they meet on the common ground created by their shared attention to and care for their young. NOTE: This statement is also available in Spanish.
Beliefs For Integrating Technology into the English Language Arts Classroom.
This revised statement comes from the English Language Arts Teacher Educators (ELATE) Commission on Digital Literacy in Teacher Education (D-LITE). ELATE is a constituency group of NCTE. The revised statement offers a layered framework to support colleagues in their efforts to confidently and creatively explore networked, ubiquitous technologies in a way that deepens and expands the core principles of practice that have emerged over the last century in English and literacy education.
Literacy Assessment: Definitions, Principles, & Practices.
NCTE believes that literacy assessment is an integral part of literacy teaching and learning; that literacy assessment contributes to the conditions for literacy teaching and learning; and that professional knowledge about literacy assessment is a critical component of a literacy teacher’s development and practice.
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