Part 4/4: Hungry to Write/Hungry to Think: Teaching Expository Writing (Bos)

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Overview

You must be available for all four parts of this writing mini-course: June 6, June 13, June 14-19 (working independently), and June 20. You must register for the three face-to-face parts of this writing mini-course: June 6, June 13 and June 20. This 12-hour mini course will be framed around the questions that we have as writing teachers who are preparing our students for college-level writing regardless of the level we are teaching: What is a college-level essay? What are college-like writing assignments and expectations? How and why do writers write essays, generally? What do writers do in the act(s) of producing essay writing? Do we as writing teachers identify as essay writers, as writers at all? Does this matter? And what do we do in our class rooms with students to help create an environment that invites writing production?

Details

This 12-hour mini course will be framed around the questions that we have as writing teachers who are preparing our students for college-level writing regardless of the level we are teaching: What is a college-level essay? What are college-like writing assignments and expectations? How and why do writers write essays, generally? What do writers do in the act(s) of producing essay writing? Do we as writing teachers identify as essay writers, as writers at all? Does this matter? And what do we do in our class rooms with students to help create an environment that invites writing production? In addition to posing questions, the mini-course will provide a myriad of approaches, and activities that are designed to help us feel at home with the difficult and rewarding tasks of producing expository writing, and teaching it. Expect to write--alone, together and with students. Expect to support students to think about writing in multiple ways and for multiple purposes. Expect to talk and think and read about both writing and the teaching of it. Come hungry to think and write. Part 1: Essay Writing: Practice, Process and Product (a three hour face-to-face session: June 6) Part 2: Planning a new essay writing activity and/or approach (a three hour face-to face session: June 13) Part 3: Delivering and writing about a new essay writing activity/and or approach (a three hour commitment to teach and document the results of a writing activity/and or approach: June 14-19) Part 4: Teaching Essay Writing: Sharing activities/and or approaches and results, and implementing a self-assessment tool (a three hour face-to-face session: June 20) NOTE: Although we will be focusing on the writing process, practice and production of essay writing, this workshop is open to all writing teachers regradless of teaching and/or writing experience.

When

Jun 20, 2012 from 02:00 pm to 05:00 pm

Where

• On campus (see below)
• UMass Boston
• Wheatley Hall, Room 04-167
• 100 Morrissey Blvd.
• Boston, MA 02125-3393

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Registration Deadline

Jun 01, 2012 at 6:00 PM

Topics

Curriculum Development

Maximum attendance

20

Multi-session attendance required

yes

Contact info

Deborah Schwartz
deborah.schwartz@umb.edu
(617) 287-4072

Learning objectives

By completing the mini-course, participants will be able to: Explain the benefits of "writing to learn," and "process writing" approaches. Facilitate conversatons with their students about the purposes for writing in general, and the purposes for writing essays, specifically, Provide written and oral feedback to students' writing drafts using at least one feedback approach or tools such as a holistic assessment, rubric, or response log. Adopt, adapt and/or create at least one effective expository writing activity or assignment; Produce one reflective short essay about a writing lesson that was developed during the mini-course based on one or more of the other learning objectives.

Presenters

Deborah Schwartz
Guest Teacher

Presenters Bio

The workshop will be facilitated by Deborah Schwartz, Assistant Director of the Adult Literacy Resource Institute and writing teacher. As coordinator of a state-wide writing initiative, Deborah is excited to share some of what the initiative is exploring. One or two guest teachers from the initiative will be co-facilitating!

Host RSC

Boston Region

PDPs

yes