Indiana Writing Project

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

• Summer Institute
• Saturday Seminars
• Open Institute
• Inservice Workshops
• Administrators' Workshop

 

Saturday Seminars

For More Information

Call the IWP office at 765-285-8414 or email Bea Sousa at beals42@gmail.com

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Fall 2009 Series

SEPTEMBER 12
Two concurrent seminars:

1. Kindergarten News
(for K-1 teachers)

Want proof that kindergarteners can write?  Tammy has used K-News for many years and is eager to share her expertise and experience in turning six-year-olds into writers.

Presenter: IWP Co-director Tammy Taylor

2. Making the Writing Workshop Work in Your Classroom (for all other teachers)

Kathy Flatter is literacy coach at Selma Elementary.  Her writing workshop is so engaging that students wail when a snow day interferes with time for writing.  What are your burning questions about writing workshop?  Management?  Grading?  Helping kids find ideas for writing?Send them to kflatter@selma,k12.in.us, so she can frame this session to help YOU. 

Presenter: IWP Summer Institute Co-Director Kathy Flatter

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OCTOBER 17
Two concurrent seminars:

1. K-1 Writing Workshop
(for K-1 teachers)

This session is a continuation from September 12 (although the first session is not a pre-requisite).  It addresses the special concerns of K-1 teachers about writing workshop in their classroom.

Presenters: IWP Co-Director Tammy Taylor and Jennifer Fisher, Teacher Conultant/2009 Summer Institute Fellow

2. Writer's Notebooks
(for all other teachers)

Students who use a writer's notebook are never at a loss for writing ideas. Writer’s Notebooks support revision and the deep thinking necessary to good writing. Bring your notebook or pick up a simple composition book before you come.

Presenter: Jane Snider, IWP Inservice Coordinator

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NOVEMBER 14

Revision: Using Text To Teach Writing
(for all grade levels)

Writing IS revision and can be the most rewarding part of writing. Honestly! This session focuses on simple strategies to share with your students, including “reading like a writer.” When students learn how to notice what published writers do to make text sing, they will use it as well.

Presenters: Bea Sousa, TC and former IWP Inservice Coordinator, and Megan Jackson, Teacher Consultant and 2009 Summer Institute Fellow

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Winter 2010 Seminar

JANUARY 9

Writing to a Prompt: Getting Your Students Ready for ISTEP
(Grades 3 and up)

Several years ago IWP began to approach ISTEP writing as a genre. Susan Darling helped develop a writing cycle to prepare students for the special requirements of writing on the demand. She uses it every year in her classroom with impressive results. In this cycle, students learn how to take apart a prompt and how to apply what they know in their response. If your students are writing in an authentic writing workshop classroom, this cycle teaches them how to make that critical adaptation in audience and purpose that is key to successful ISTEP writing.

Presenters: Teacher Consultants Susan Darling and Heather Poston (2009 Summer Institute Fellow)

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