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Personalized School Professional Development Planning
Give me a call and we'll discuss your school's individual needs. Together, we can go through an informal needs assessment and develop a School Professional Development Proposal (SPDP) customized for your teachers and students.
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Discuss and and assess many samples of student writing, along with samples of workplace and professional writing, using traits -- key characteristics of good writing:
- Idea development
- Organization
- Voice
- Word choice
- Sentence fluency
- Conventions
Learn how to teach the traits using children's literature.
Workshops offered as part of a professional development plan Building the Foundation the WRITE WAY K-5. At this two-day hands-on workshop you'll learn . . .
- Specific writing tools for all stages of the writing process: pre-writing, writing, and revision.
- How to teach narrative writing:
Short story
Personal narrative
Memoir- How to teach expository/transactive writing:
Feature articles
Process articles ("How to")
Persuasive letters- Other genres upon request
- What genre and composing strategies need to be taught K-5.
- Teaching grammar and spelling can be taught through students' writing rather than in isolated drill.
- How to make the reading-writing connection come alive.
- How to improve writing test scores.
- How to make your writing program more fun for you and for your students. The contents of this program is a writing curriculum for a K-5 school or district, as well as a treasury of mini-lesson possibilities.
The next step after Building the Foundation the WRITE WAY. At this two-day interactive workshop you'll learn. . .
- How to teach revision using actual children's writing samples.
- Strategies to use right away--idea development, hooks and endings, expanding plot, characterization, snapshots, thoughtshots, show-not-tell, and many more--for K-5.
- Books you can use to teach individual strategies.
- How to model and write with your children.
- How to further teach conferencing, revising, and editing.
- How to connect reading and writing, enabling students to read with the eye of an author.
At this workshop you will learn. . .
- How to move your beginning writers from scribbles to sentences.
- What your students need to doing as they move along the writing developmental continuum.
- How to encourage even your most reluctant writer.
- How to make the reader-writer connection come alive.
At this workshop you will learn. . .
- How to teach the 6-Trait Writing Assessment and Instruction using Write Traits materials.
- How to connect reading and writing, enabling students to read with the eye of an author.
At this workshop you will learn. . .
- How to teach the craft of writing through the context of Newbridge's science books.
- Improve students' writing while teaching and learning
science.
Teachers observe while I teach their children.
- This offers the much-needed on-going support and follow-up that is lacking from "traditional stand and deliver professional development."
- Lessons taught in blocks enabling teachers to not only view several lessons, but also to meet with me and discuss what they saw and what needs to be taught next.
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