Program: Office of School Improvement - CTLE Approved Sponsor
Audience: all K-12 teachers concerned with increasing students’ writing practice and may be particularly helpful to secondary teachers, including teachers of science, social studies, math, and other subjects.
Dates: 4/11/2019
Writing is hard to learn and hard to teach. Kids need more practice. Teachers need more time. Since time is a fixed resource, and there’s never enough, what do we do? We publish more short pieces! Instead of giving kids minimum word or page count requirements, do the opposite: give low maximum word and page counts. Creating 100- to 400-word pieces takes less time, incentivizes revision and editing, and reduces teacher workload for assessment, correction, and response. Most importantly, it increases the number of exposures kids get to the types and techniques of writing they need to master. In this workshop, we introduce the idea of writing more shorter pieces, review one in each of the four most common modes, and share the most important pre-writing, drafting, revision, and editing strategies. Participants use the methods during the workshop to produce their own texts they can use as models in their own classrooms. This workshop is for all K-12 teachers concerned with increasing students’ writing practice and may be particularly helpful to secondary teachers, including teachers of science, social studies, math, and other subjects.