Indiana Writing Project

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

• Summer Institute
• Saturday Seminars
• Open Institute
• Inservice Workshops
• Administrative Workshops
• Conferences

Summer Invitational Institute

June 16 - July 11, 2008

The cornerstone of the Indiana Writing Project is the Summer Invitational Institute held for four weeks during Ball State University's second summer session. The institute brings together nearly twenty educators who teach at the elementary, intermediate, and secondary level. Participants learn from each other ways to improve how writing is taught.

Philosophy

The Summer Institute operates under the belief that the best model for a workshop is teachers teaching teachers. Throughout the institute, participants write, research, and reflect on their teaching, sharing the outcome of these experiences with other participants along the way.

The IWP advances the principles of the National Writing Project through its programs. These overarching principles concisely summarize the perspective we try to promote in teachers of writing, the underlying reasoning for this perspective, and the value we see in it.

• Writing is pivotal to learning, academic achievement and job success.
• Writing instruction begins in kindergarten and continues through university.
• Universities and schools work best when they collaborate in the service of students.
• Effective teachers of writing are writers.
• Exemplary teachers make the best teachers of other teachers.
• Teachers are the key to reform in education.
• Professional development begins when teachers enter teaching and continues throughout their careers.

Apply

Application form for 2008 Summer Institute (pdf)