PISD SUMMER WRITING INSTITUTE
AUGUST 2ND, 2013
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OUTCOMES
In this 3-day session, participants will:
Understand how the Writing Workshop structure can help middle and high school students become better writers.
Plan units, mini-lessons, procedures, and strategies to be implemented in their own classrooms.
Use the Workshop structure to take a piece of their own writing through the writing process.
SCHEDULE
Day 1: July
31st
Day 2: August
1st
Day 3: August
2nd
• What is Workshop?
• Setting up
notebooks
• Model Lesson/Time
to write
• Workshop routines
and procedures
• Genre studies
• Planning time
• Mini-lessons
• Model
Lesson/Time to
write
•Conferring
• Assessment
and Evaluation
• Student panel
• Publishing our
writing
• Debrief
ANDERSON JIGSAW
As you read your section:
3 big ideas you see in your section.
2 questions you would ask the
author or that linger in your mind.
1 way you might apply the ideas in
your section to your teaching.
WRITING CONFERENCE
STRUCTURE
1. How is it going?
2. What is the student working on?
3. What is the student doing well?
4. What is one teaching point I can
share with this student?
DURING THE BREAK…
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What methods do you currently
use to evaluate student writing?
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EVALUATION
Read Chapter 9, “Assessment and Evaluation.”
What challenges do you foresee in assessing students in a Workshop environment?
What methods of assessment would be most effective for evaluating your students’ writing?
VARIETY IN ASSESSMENT
Methods of assessment that could be used in
a Writing Workshop:
• Rubrics/self-evaluations
• Self-reflections
• Writing conferences
• Notebook evaluations
• Timed writings (used sparingly)
LET’S EAT!We will start the afternoon session at 1:00
PM.
Bring your notebook with you during lunch.
When we return, we will have a chance to ask our student panel questions about their writing experiences. If you already know a question you want to ask, submit it at
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SCHEDULE
Day 1: July
31st
Day 2: August
1st
Day 3: August
2nd
• What is Workshop?
• Setting up
notebooks
• Model Lesson/Time
to write
• Workshop routines
and procedures
• Genre studies
• Planning time
• Mini-lessons
• Model
Lesson/Time to
write
• Conferring
• Assessment and
Evaluation
• Student panel
• Publishing our
writing
• Debrief