Indiana Writing Project
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Invitational Summer Institute 2012
Each summer, beginning in 1986, IWP invites teachers representing all levels of instruction, a wide range of students, and many curricular areas to the Ball State University campus for an intensive Summer Institute in the Teaching of Writing. This summer we will meet on the following dates:
Pre-Institute Retreat: April 14 & April 28
Summer Institute: June 18 - July 12 (Monday - Thursday)
Meet the Teaching Fellows from the 2011 Summer Institute.
Why should teachers get involved with the National Writing Project?
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 for summer 2012 (pdf)
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Summer Institute Makes a Difference
"No longer will my students have meaningless writing. No longer will they be writing by themselves as I sit on the side and watch. No longer will I treat their written work as nothing more than an assignment.
"Instead, my classroom will be filled with writers. Writers discussing and sharing their writing. Writers conferencing with one another. Writers publishing work that they are proud of. Writers proud of what they have written. Writers aching with caring."
- Linda Reynolds, 2000