Writing Workshop for Writing Teachers:
Facilitating Best Writing from our Students and Ourselves
: July 7-July 31, M-Th from 9-4:00 for six credits
Robin Murray, Director and Mary Catherine St. John, Co-Director
This workshop is designed to offer teachers of all disciplines and grade levels (preK-college) an opportunity to experience a summer institute associated with the National Writing Project through a variety of classroom writing and activities and teaching opportunities.
All reading materials will be chosen from the class library or on-line browsers. Resources will be provided for writing and reading activities, as well.
- To improve student writing and learning in K-16 classrooms
- To extend the uses of writing in all disciplines
- To provide schools, colleges, and universities with an effective in-service model
- To identify, celebrate, and enhance the professional role of successful classroom teachers.
- To apply a teacher-centered model to implement these goals
- To participate in all writing activities, including journaling, written responses to teaching demonstrations, writing crawl (marathon) and peer response and demonstration feedback.
- To workshop and revise at least one piece of writing for a class anthology.
- To participate in all coaching and reading sessions toward completion of a teaching demonstration
- To complete one teaching demonstration modeled on those of teacher consultants and responding to an ongoing issue in your own classrooms
- To provide feedback to all other students (fellows) in the workshop
- To have fun!
- To share food and drink and conversation.
Please see handouts in your packet for further information about the week’s activities and requirements.
Students with Disabilities: If you have a documented disability and wish to receive academic accommodations, please contact the Coordinator of the Office of Disability Services (581-6583) as soon as possible.
Plagiarism: The English Department states, "Any teacher who discovers an act of plagiarism -- `The appropriation or imitation of the language, ideas, and/or thoughts of another author, and representation of them as one's original work' -- has the right and the responsibility to impose upon the guilty student an appropriate penalty, up to and including immediate assignment of a grade of "F" in the course."
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