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Conference Schedule
8:30-9:20 Professional Learning Communities I: Twenty Years: Twenty Moments in the National Writing Project Network
9:30-10:40 Round One Workshops
10:50-12:00 Round Two Workshops
12:10-12:50 Lunch
1:00-2:00 Professional Learning Communities II: The NWP’s 2007 Invitational Institute at Prairie Lands Writing Project
Workshops
A. The MAP, GLEs, and DOKs: An Interactive Workshop. Sally Minnick(minnick@nwmissouri.edu), Communication Arts Facilitator for the Northwest Regional Professional Development Center at Northwest Missouri State University.
Why do these acronyms matter? In this workshop, you will learn how Depth of Knowledge (DOK) applications and the revisions of the Missouri Assessment Program (MAP) and content-area Grade Level Expectations (GLEs) impact language arts teaching, grades K – 12. You will also acquire strategies for their effective use in improving students’ learning in your classroom.
B. Creating a Brain-Compatible Classroom. Diane Scollay (dsgateway@umsl.edu), Gateway Writing Project Director at the University of Missouri – St Louis.
Rumor has it that the brain has something to do with learning. Join Diane and experience a lesson that you can share with students. We'll build a model of the brain with playdough and learn ways to help students grow dendrites. Of course, writing is a key to building the complex neural networks essential to becoming "smart."
C. Teachers, Teaching and Academic Writing: Where Recipes Fail. Tom Pankiewicz (pankiew@missouriwestern.edu) and Dawn Terrick (terrick@missouriwestern.edu), Missouri Western State University English instructors.
Compare. . . Persuade. . . Explain. . . Define. . . Such verbs in classroom assignments and on high-stakes tests call students to compose pieces of academic writing. This workshop will examine our understanding of academic writing and share approaches to building academic writers among our students.
D. Exploring the Nation's Attics to Make Learning Real: Using American Memory and Other Free Public Resources in Your Classroom. Barbara Price (bprice@truman.edu), Truman State University English professor.
Using the Library of Congress American Memory collection of over seven million historical documents, photographs, maps, films, and audio recordings can transform teaching and learning in your classroom. In this workshop you will discover multiple ways to engage students in reading/writing/critical thinking based on primary documents available free online. We will also take a quick look at some other great public resources available free through National Public Radio, Public Television, NASA, and Project Gutenberg.
E. Found Poetry: Read! Search! Find! Write and Remember! Ann Dotson (ann.dotson@sjsd.k12.mo.us), St Joseph Skaith Elementary grade four teacher, and Joe Marmaud (jmarmaud1@missouriwestern.edu), Missouri Western State University adjunct English instructor.
In this workshop, you will create found poems, discovering ways to play with and reconfigure prose texts. Learn how easy it is for you and your students to steal other writers’ words to make your own poems. And, in the process of creating the poems, you and your students will increase your vocabularies and improve your reading comprehension of the texts from which you stole your words.
Registration Fees
$25 before Wednesday, October 3, or $40 on site.
Participants will receive five-hour professional development completion certificates.
