Learn strategies to motivate reluctant writers while stimulating advanced students to stretch their abilities to reach
a new level. You will practice anxiety-reducing exercises such as un graded journal writing that kids want to do, writing for different audiences (historical, literary & mythological figures as well as those from pop culture), imaginative interviewing, quirky book reactions, creative writing (memoir, flash fiction, and poetry), etc. (Murphy)
This workshop stresses skills such as generating ideas for essays, reading-based
writing, creating picture-prompt writing prompts, and other standardized
test preparation, revision strategies, points for editing and polishing essays,
and a pain-free grammar blitz. Well, almost pain-free. Superb preparation
for ASK, HSPA and the SAT! (Murphy)
This workshop will encourage teachers to become practicing writers for their own professional development and so they become better teachers of writing. In addition, it will offer approaches for evaluating student writing and paper management strategies and will conclude with a plan to build a writing friendly school by creating a community of teachers who write. (Murphy)
This workshop will trigger your imagination and stimulate your memory to compose poems through varied in-class exercises. You will learn to appreciate the difference between merely telling and infusing details into a narrative poem that make your writing meaningful, satisfying and true.” You will also learn strategies for revising your work, which you can use with students. (Murphy)
This workshop will present an overview of how to read and respond to students’ writing. Topics include creating incrementally structured assignments, alternatives to numerical and letter grades, group editing and peer critiquing, making writing fun, and handling the paper load. Teachers will leave with handouts, ideas, and enthusiasm for having their students write more and better. (Murphy)
‘Writing and rewriting are a constant search for what one is saying.” John Updike
This workshop uses writing samples from high school students and insights from well-known writers which will give you the ammunition you need to have your students understand that revision (literally “re-seeing”) is essential to good writing. The full day workshop offers more writing opportunities to practice the revision strategies introduced. (Murphy)
Learn how to use poetry in subjects such as art, music, social studies,
math and science to increase reading comprehension and critical thinking
skills. This workshop will assist teachers to add excitement and
creativity to their classes while strengthening subject matter proficiency. (Murphy)
A survey of the black poets who came into prominence after Langston
Hughes, including Gwendolyn Brooks, Lucille Clifton, Rita Dove, Robert
Hayden, Yusef Komunyakaa and Marilyn Nelson, as well a look at
a younger generation including Elizabeth Alexander, Cornelius Eady,
Thomas
Sayers Ellis, Terence Hayes, Tim Seibles and Tracy Smith. (Murphy)
Like photo sensitive paper, writing becomes vibrant when illuminated by the radiance of the five senses: sight, sound, smell, touch, taste. Teachers will practice applying concrete language to reveal the mysteries of the intangible world. (Murphy)
Spark your students to see the world slanted. A variety of visual and text based exercises will prepare you to help them understand their media and literal environments. Topics covered will include interpreting metaphor and figurative language as well as looking at advertising. (Murphy)
Mention Shakespeare in a classroom and you may be met with groans and stifled
yawns. How can you bring the man, his plays, and the time period to life? In
this workshop, we will explore a number of enrichment activities that you can
then bring to your classroom – everything from movies to hands-on activities to historical and modern day interpretations of the man and his work. Activities for many grade levels, particularly high school, will be presented. Participants will receive a booklet of handouts and resources and a copy of In the Shadow of the Globe.(Cameron)
The ability to read well is the most important skill we can provide for our students. In addition to the many practical benefits of good reading, it’s a passport to almost the entirety of world cultures. But in an increasingly electronic age, good reading skills are difficult to come by. This workshop will provide useful, interesting materials and strategies to encourage students as they develop the reading skills they need and help you motivate them to want those skills. (B. &. D. Daniels)
Instead of going over old, tired rules, use grammar as a form of problem solving and watch your class discover for themselves the ways their own language works. This workshop will suggest a framework for using grammar instruction to help students write better and provide practical techniques for putting theory into action. The word glamour is a medieval variation of grammar, connecting learning with magic. Inspire an interest in language, and all sorts of glamorous things may happen. (B. &. D. Daniels)
This is a workshop for teaching literacy, critical thinking, composition and creative writing to students who have low academic self-esteem, limited vocabulary, emotional trouble, or learning disabilities. Teachers will practice a battery of proven techniques, exercises and models to get these kids excited about writing. (Goetsch)
This is a workshop for teaching creative writing to students who have low
academic self-esteem, limited vocabulary, emotional trouble, or learning disabilities
such as ADHD. Educators will be shown a battery of proven techniques, exercises
and models to get these kids excited about writing. These are not formulas
for cookie cutter responses, but rather smart ways for teachers to structure,
sequence, and modify assignments to foster authentic creativity in special
needs students. (Goetsch)
This workshop demonstrates four foolproof techniques that empower students at any level to excel as writers. Students will begin writing in “clear, concise, organized language that varies in content and form for different audiences and purposes.” (Harrod)
In this hands-on workshop, teachers will explore and stretch their own capabilities as writers of poems and imaginative prose. We will examine ways in which these writing suggestions can be adjusted for students and will consider how the experience of being a teacher/writer can lead to our growth as teachers. (Schwartz)
We all have true stories to tell: about worlds we know well and new worlds we discover daily. This workshop will show how to capture both, using the power of voice, storytelling, memory, and grace of language to make nonfiction writing come alive. Using in-class exercises as springboards, we’ll explore strategies for turning fragments of memory and/or observation into personal essay, profiles, or narrative journalism. (Schwartz)
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