CCSS Seminar Flyer UOS Orlando 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 Friday, February 27, 2015 Walt Disney World Dolphin 1500 Epcot Resorts Blvd Lake Buena Vista, FL 32830 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 Shanna Schwartz In this day-long seminar, Shanna Schwartz, co-author of Writing About Reading in 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. She’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, 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.
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. 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, Shanna will remind you of the old fashioned and irreplaceable values that are the core of powerful writing instruction. 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 Friday, February 27, 2015 Walt Disney World Dolphin 1500 Epcot Resorts Blvd Lake Buena Vista, FL 32830 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 Shanna Schwartz In this day-long seminar, Shanna Schwartz, co-author of Writing About Reading in 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. She’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, 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.
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. 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, Shanna will remind you of the old fashioned and irreplaceable values that are the core of powerful writing instruction. 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.
