Summer 2010 Workshops for Teachers

The Bay Area Writing Project is offering the following five workshops for teachers this summer. All workshops take place on the UC Berkeley campus except for The Grammar/Writing Connection for Teachers taught by Greta Vollmer, which takes place at Sonoma State University.

GRAMMAR FOR TEACHERS

Grades 6-college Instructor: Nelson Graff July 12-23, Monday-Friday, 9:00 a.m.-noon Workshop Location: UC Berkeley campus Registration fee: $350 Optional 2 units of credit from UC Berkeley Extension available for $220

This workshop is recommended for teachers of grades six through college who are interested in learning more about integrating grammar instruction into their teaching of reading and writing. Practical workshop exercises will cover the basics: grammar as rhetoric, parts of speech, the English verb, joining sentences, expanding sentences, uses and abuses of passive voice, and punctuation with a purpose. Bring your favorite grammar questions and a sample student essay full of errors! Discussion topics include: "grammar myths"; the role of rules; the connection between sentence crafting, style and voice; teaching grammar options without destroying ownership; the ups and downs of writing development, English Learners' sources of error, and the psychology of correctness.

YES THEY CAN! WRITING AND ENGLISH LEARNERS

Grades K-5

Instructors:

Betty Pazmino, Content Specialist, English Language Arts, K-5, San Francisco USD

Mary Lugton, Dover Elementary School, San Pablo

July 26–30, Monday–Friday
9:00 a.m.–3:00 p.m,
Workshop Location: UC Berkeley campus
Registration fee: $300
Optional 2 units of credit from UC Berkeley Extension available for $220

With a focus on what students CAN do, this workshop will address these questions and more as you learn how to assess student writing, craft effective mini-lessons, and select and use mentor texts. You will also explore explicit vocabulary instruction, the use of student talk as a bridge to learning, and the specifics of peer conferencing with ELLs. Throughout, we will pay attention to the standards and to the challenges of carving out a dedicated writing block in your teaching.

• How do English Language Learners come to know themselves as writers?
• How do they use their knowledge of language to make sense of writing in English?
• What skills, strategies and structures are necessary in developing an effective Writers' Workshop with ELLs?

TEACHING WRITING IN THE SECONDARY CLASSROOM

Grades 6-12
July 26–August 6. Monday–Friday, 9:00 a.m. –3:00 p.m.
Instructors:
M. Clare LePell, Castro Valley High School
Katherine Suyeyasu, ASCEND, Oakland
Workshop Location: UC Berkeley campus
Registration fee: $400
Optional 3 units of UC Berkeley Extension credit available for $275

We all want our students to write more and to greater effect, but how do we make this happen? How do we build memorable writing lessons that generate thoughtful content and address the needs of both our best students and our struggling students (without drowning in paper)? What are strategies for helping ELL students and for building students' skills that meet state standards? What about cultivating academic language in the classroom? In short, how do energize or re-energize ourselves as teachers of writing so that we can engage students in the power of the written word? Join this two-week class led by veteran educators, M. Clare LePell and Katherine Suyeyasu, where we’ll address these questions and more.

In a highly collegial setting…
• experience interactive teaching demonstrations that will give you new ideas and greater confidence in your lessons
• write frequently and share your writing in small groups
• explore questions about the teaching of writing through discussions of selected readings
• develop lessons for your own class, using your curriculum and texts, ready to use in the fall.

SUMMER WRITING WORKSHOP FOR TEACHERS

All grades
Choose from two dates:
August 2–6, Monday–Friday. 9:00 a.m. – noon
August 9-13, Monday–Friday. 9:00 a.m. – noon
Instructor: Meredith Pike-Baky Workshop Location: UC Berkeley campus
Registration Fee: $225
Optional 1 unit of UC Berkeley Extension credit available for $175

Spend a week in August sifting your summer experiences through writing and preparing for the school year ahead. Treat yourself to some time to reflect, to do the writing you’ve been hoping to do for weeks, months, years, and to plan a rich and rigorous program for your students. This intensive week of writing brings participants together to “write for themselves” by completing assignments in several genres. Each of the assignments can be taken into writing classrooms at all levels. Read inspiring models, collaborate with response partners and collect ideas and materials for teaching. This eight year of BAWP’s Summer Writing Workshop for Teachers sits solidly on the belief that teachers become better teachers of writing by writing themselves. Participants contribute to an anthology published at the end of the week.

THE GRAMMAR/WRITING CONNECTION FOR TEACHERS

Grades 6-college
Instructor: Greta Vollmer
August 9-13, Monday-Friday, 9:00 a.m.-noon
Workshop Location: Sonoma State University campus
Registration Fee: $225
Optional 1 units of credit from Sonoma State University is available (price TBA)

Through hands-on activities designed to show the possibilities - not the perils – of grammar, teachers will explore grammatical structures as rhetorical choices, developing strategies for helping students expand their repertoires and their pleasure in writing. Activities will be grounded in current research and address sentence crafting, development of style and voice, English language learners as writers and issues of error and grammatical correctness.

HOW TO REGISTER

Please click the following link to download the registration form. Complete the form and mail it to the BAWP office with your check or school purchase order. There is no option to register online this year after all, although we had hoped there would be.

http://www.bayareawritingproject.org/bawp/sites/default/files/Reg_Form.pdf