CCSS Seminar Flyer UOS New York K 2
Units of Study: Implementing Rigorous, Coherent Writing Curriculum (K-2) One-Day Conference
WHO SHOULD ATTEND? Teachers (K-2), coaches, administrators, curriculum coordinators, state and regional leaders. DATE & LOCATION Tuesday, September 23, 2014 Teachers College 525 W 120th Street New York, NY 10027 TIME 8:30 A.M.-3:00 P.M. TUITION The cost of this workshop is $165.00 per person. HOW TO REGISTER To register for this event or to see the full schedule of professional development offered by the Reading and Writing Project, go to www.readingandwritingproject.com
Presented by Amanda Hartman and Shanna Schwartz In this day-long seminar, Amanda Hartman and Shanna Schwartz, co-authors of titles within the Units of Study in Opinion, Information, and Narrative Writing series, will help you understand the implications of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) for primary writing. They’ll guide you as you align your writing instruction to the Standards. The Common Core State Standards refocus the nation on students’ proficiency as writers. If children are going to reach these ambitious expectations of the CCSS then it is important that they are offered the richest literacy development right from the start. Even young children profit from the opportunity to write opinion and information books and to craft the stories of their lives. In this workshop, teachers and administrators will learn overarching plans and precise details that can help students reach and exceed the high expectations of the Common Core. As part of this, Amanda and Shanna will help you grasp the Common Core’s rallying cry around writing and she will explain how the new units of study can help you meet these demands. You'll hear about the importance of teaching a spiral curriculum in opinion, information and narrative writing, one in which youngsters are taught to write reviews, essays, information books, research reports, and stories. Amanda and Shanna will show you the most influential techniques the TCRWP has developed for helping young children become powerful and resourceful writers.
You’ll also learn how assessment can accelerate students' progress. Amanda and Shanna will suggest that when you have a clear sense of the trajectory along which writers develop, that knowledge can make teaching more purposeful and powerful. An understanding of learning progressions can help you provide more powerful feedback to youngsters. All of this can be interwoven into cycles of ever more challenging work in ways that engine students’ progress. More than anything, Amanda and Shanna will remind you of the old fashioned and irreplaceable values that are the core of powerful writing instruction. AMANDA HARTMAN is Associate Director for Primary at the TCRWP. In this role, Amanda leads the Project's work in primary reading and writing. She also plays a lead role in the Project’s work with ELLs. Amanda is co-author of Launching the Writing Workshop, and Lessons from the Masters (Heinemann, 2013) and author of One to One: The Art of Conferring with Young Writers (Heinemann 2005). SHANNA SCHWARTZ, Senior Staff Developer, supports schools and works closely with literacy coaches. She is the author of Making Your Teaching Stick (2008) and is co-author of Writing About Reading (Heinemann, 2013) a unit of study for second grade.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND? Teachers (K-2), coaches, administrators, curriculum coordinators, state and regional leaders. DATE & LOCATION Tuesday, September 23, 2014 Teachers College 525 W 120th Street New York, NY 10027 TIME 8:30 A.M.-3:00 P.M. TUITION The cost of this workshop is $165.00 per person. HOW TO REGISTER To register for this event or to see the full schedule of professional development offered by the Reading and Writing Project, go to www.readingandwritingproject.com
Presented by Amanda Hartman and Shanna Schwartz In this day-long seminar, Amanda Hartman and Shanna Schwartz, co-authors of titles within the Units of Study in Opinion, Information, and Narrative Writing series, will help you understand the implications of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) for primary writing. They’ll guide you as you align your writing instruction to the Standards. The Common Core State Standards refocus the nation on students’ proficiency as writers. If children are going to reach these ambitious expectations of the CCSS then it is important that they are offered the richest literacy development right from the start. Even young children profit from the opportunity to write opinion and information books and to craft the stories of their lives. In this workshop, teachers and administrators will learn overarching plans and precise details that can help students reach and exceed the high expectations of the Common Core. As part of this, Amanda and Shanna will help you grasp the Common Core’s rallying cry around writing and she will explain how the new units of study can help you meet these demands. You'll hear about the importance of teaching a spiral curriculum in opinion, information and narrative writing, one in which youngsters are taught to write reviews, essays, information books, research reports, and stories. Amanda and Shanna will show you the most influential techniques the TCRWP has developed for helping young children become powerful and resourceful writers.
You’ll also learn how assessment can accelerate students' progress. Amanda and Shanna will suggest that when you have a clear sense of the trajectory along which writers develop, that knowledge can make teaching more purposeful and powerful. An understanding of learning progressions can help you provide more powerful feedback to youngsters. All of this can be interwoven into cycles of ever more challenging work in ways that engine students’ progress. More than anything, Amanda and Shanna will remind you of the old fashioned and irreplaceable values that are the core of powerful writing instruction. AMANDA HARTMAN is Associate Director for Primary at the TCRWP. In this role, Amanda leads the Project's work in primary reading and writing. She also plays a lead role in the Project’s work with ELLs. Amanda is co-author of Launching the Writing Workshop, and Lessons from the Masters (Heinemann, 2013) and author of One to One: The Art of Conferring with Young Writers (Heinemann 2005). SHANNA SCHWARTZ, Senior Staff Developer, supports schools and works closely with literacy coaches. She is the author of Making Your Teaching Stick (2008) and is co-author of Writing About Reading (Heinemann, 2013) a unit of study for second grade.
