Inservice Demonstrations

The following 75 minute demo-lessons from our 2005 and 2006 Summer Institutes, which work well across curriculum as well as grade level, may be available to your school district for in-service programs. Please contact our Inservice Coordinators for more information:

Nanci Werner-Burke or Dick Heyler

“Every teacher who interacts with children has a responsibility for the student’s development in writing as it applies to their subject area.” (NWP, 2003)

“2 of 5” of John Collins’ 5 Types of Writing: Investigate using Type 1 or Type 2 quick writes as a time efficient tool to enable daily writing across the curriculum.

A Picture is Worth a Thousand . . . Ideas! Gain activities to inspire critical thinking and higher levels of response from reluctant students.

A Writer’s World Notebook: Turn writing into an author’s world filled with tidbits, creativity, and most importantly, ownership through Writer’s World Notebooks.

Agent to the Superstars: Techniques to Improve Style in Your Students’ Writing: Examine simple, but effective, techniques to improve style, bump up descriptions, and develop voice in their writing.

Authentic Writing in High School Science: Identify the importance and types of authentic writing across the curriculum. Share strategies on authentic writing in the science classroom.

But I don’t have time for this: Making time for Teacher-Student Conferencing: Join a discussion of the importance of individual conferencing and learn to implement conferencing in the classroom.

Children As Authors: Publishing in the Classroom and Beyond: Integrate easy publishing ideas in your classroom and find resources for publishing student work in magazines, newspapers, and online.

Connecting Reading & Writing in our Classrooms: Incorporating one piece of literature into several formats of letter writing.

Connecting the Dots: Develop strategies for infusing writing into the content area classroom at the middle and high school levels.

Crafting Writing Assignments in the Content Areas: Investigate effective writing assignments and why content teachers should include writing in the classroom.

Creativity in the Classroom: Demonstrate the importance of creativity in the classroom across all curriculum areas in order to increase retention and involvement.

Developing and Monitoring Writing Fluency Using Poetry in Content Area Classes: Poetry in Science Class? Reading, writing, and presenting poetry develops content area writing fluency.

Does your writing stink? Using Your Five Senses to Improve Descriptive Writing: Investigate how the five senses can be used to strengthen descriptive writing.

Encouraging Critical Thinking in the Classroom: Learn ways of using writing to increase your students' higher-order thinking and learning.

Enhancing Learning and Retention: Experiment using the modalities of sight and sound to create poems that function as pre-writes.

Focus: World Language and ESL for Elementary and HS: Use picture and children's books to teach advanced ideas and grammatical structures simultaneously; emphasizing use with the ESL learner.