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Inservice Programs: These programs—offered both in the summer and during the school year—provide professional development to teachers, teacher candidates, administrators, schools (kindergarten through university), and districts in our site’s service area. CWVWP Teacher Consultants deliver series programs that contribute to creating a culture of writing within a school, increasing the amount and quality of writing that children are guided to do, and encouraging local leadership through teacher participation in the Invitational Summer Institute. Each program is tailored to meet the needs of participating counties, schools and teachers.

Please contact Barbara Holmes @ holmes26@marshall.edu to discuss bringing this training to your school.

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Series 1: Pack ‘N Go Writing Across the Curriculum

Pack 'N Go Writing Across the Curriculum is a fifteen-hour professional development series based primarily on Teaching Adolescent Writers by Kelly Gallagher. Kelly shares a number of classroom-tested strategies that enable teachers to understand the importance of teaching writing, how to motivate young writers, and assess essays.  It includes additional projects such as RAFT writing and Problem-based learning. Teachers will be able to pack up each session and take exciting ideas directly into their classrooms for all subject areas. Pack 'N Go Writing across the Curriculum is an activity-filled series with a "learn by doing" atmosphere. Additionally, series coordinators will invite talented teacher consultants from the Central West Virginia Writing Project to share successful writing experiences from their own secondary classrooms.

Target Audience: Grade Levels 6-12

Teachers meet for five three-hour meetings, scheduled every other week

Series 2: Blowing Away the State Writing Assessment Test

Blowing Away the State Writing Assessment Test is a fifteen-hour professional development series based on the book by Jane Kiester. Presenters offer classroom-tested ideas to improve essay writing in narrative, expository and informative, descriptive, and persuasive writing. Activities include burying dead verbs, identifying and incorporating strong verbs, using the state writing rubric, and specific suggestions to ease the writing process for students and teachers. Teachers will have time to implement ideas in their classrooms in all subject areas and share results with their peers in a supportive atmosphere. The series coordinator will invite talented teacher consultants from the Central West Virginia Writing Project to share successful writing experiences from their own classrooms, as well. View names of past participants.

Target Audience: Grade Levels K-12

Teachers meet for five three-hour meetings, scheduled every other week

Series 3: Writing … It’s Elementary!

Author Lois Bridges writes, “We write to find meaning, to make sense, to record events that matter.” Writing …It’s Elementary! is a fifteen-hour professional development series based on Ms. Bridges’ book, Writing as a Way of Knowing, and taught by practicing educators. The series offers a wide range of successful, practical classroom writing strategies and techniques. Participants will expand their writing repertoires as they learn to make writing possibilities visible and accessible for their students.

Target Audience: Grade Levels K-5 (also appropriate for Language Arts teachers 6-12)

Teachers meet for five three-hour meetings, scheduled every other week

Series 4:  Teaching Students to Write with Clarity, Style, and Flashes of Brilliance

Teaching Students to Write with Clarity, Style, and Flashes of Brilliance is a fifteen-hour professional development series based on Lori Rog and Paul Kropp’s book, The Write Genre: Classroom Activities and Mini-lessons . It includes the 6+1 Traits rubric and RAFT writing, and it provides hands-on activities that focus on all stages of the writing process. Teachers will collect ideas for six writing genres plus more than fifty mini-lessons dealing with specific skills that help students write effective fiction and nonfiction. The series coordinator has invited talented teacher consultants from the Central West Virginia Writing Project to share successful writing experiences from their own classrooms, as well.

Target Audience: Grade Levels 3-9, all content areas

Teachers meet for five three-hour meetings, scheduled every other week

Last updated January 19, 2009