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| Study Guides and Resources for the Communications
and Literacy Skills Test How the Writing Subtest Relates to Your Teaching Skills |
| In preparing to take the Literacy and Communication Skills section of the
Massachusetts Educator Certification Test (M.E.C.T.), it may boost your confidence to
remember that in many ways, as a college student, you have been preparing for the test
since entering BSC. The writing section of the exam tests your ability to communicate information with your students. It is that simple. In fact, strong classroom skills are similar to strong writing skills. Visualize the Literacy section of the exam as your opportunity to demonstrate what you already know or intuit about good teaching and good writing. Just as good teachers do not merely stand in front of a classroom and recite facts, good writers do more than repeat information. Good teachers: do not tell their students that something is
important without explaining why it is important. Good teachers: provide examples to help their students
understand information. Good teachers: use comparisons, metaphors, similes, analogies and
anecdotes. Approach: Your best approach to the definition, summary, and composition sections of the Literacy test, therefore, is to visualize students, colleagues, and professors reading these definitions, summaries, and compositions. When you write, you teach. |
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