NWPNET Summer Writing Institute-Teachers Teaching Teachers

Catalog description

This professional development course is founded on the fundamental beliefs of the National Writing Project: teachers teaching teachers through collective experience and knowledge building centered on five core principles: inquiry, dialogue, authenticity, revisioning, and challenge. This course is designed to develop education leaders, with a particular focus on writing instruction using a writing workshop approach. It aims to transform perspectives and instructional approaches for teaching writing relative to current trends and hot topics in literacy instruction. In this model, teaching experience is valued and the learning community supports personal and professional writing, and curriculum development through reading, writing, collaboration, and inquiry across the disciplines. In this process-oriented writing workshop, participants will be guided by as they explore expert models and mentor texts that aim to build ability, connections, and empathy for diverse learners.