TEACHER TRAINING

Write On! Workshops inservice provides practical,
easy to implement strategies for creating quality classroom writing programs.


Write On! Training

  • Increases teacher confidence and know-how.
  • Provides an authentic platform for effectively teaching the "Six Traits."
  • Supports teachers in implementing the writer’s workshop.
  • Creates a classroom community of student and teacher writers.
  • Generates immediate improvements in writing fluency and scores.

    • What’s more, Write On! training is fun. Each seminar leaves teachers eager to write in the classroom and design ways to make writing a part of their everyday curriculum.

    Seminar Descriptions

    Write On! inservice training begins with this initial seminar:

    The Big Three:  Three Best Practices to Writing Instruction that Work at Any Grade Level
    In this initial training seminar, teachers explore roadblocks that get in the way of writing instruction and become empowered with three research-based strategies to overcome them.  A practical nuts and bolts side of teaching writing that will leave every teacher saying, "I can do this!" (3 hour training)

    After this training, Write On! recommends faculty and administrators choose from the following menu of seminar topics.

    These seminars can fit into a half or full day of professional development training or be scheduled as a short faculty meeting mini-seminar.

    Seminars provide lessons plans, visual aides and all supplies teachers need to implement modeled lessons into their classrooms immediately.

  • Kick it Up a Notch:  Teaching Writer’s Workshop in the Content Areas.
  • “Oh yeah? Prove it!”: Fun ways to get students to support what they say in their writing.
  • “Essays Made Easy”: Ideas and strategies for teaching essay writing to all ages.
  • “Fast Forward and Slow Motion Writing”: Helping students to slow down the important parts and cut clutter in their writing.
  • “The Art of Conferencing”: How to respond to and talk to your students about their writing so that they want to write more.
  • “The Writer’s Notebook”: How the notebook can be a tool for learning inside and outside of the classroom.
  • “Mini- Lesson Resource Review”: Where to find the best mini-lessons for writing and how to create a mini-lesson network in your own school.
  • “He Loves Me . . . ”: Sure fire ways to make every student fall in love with writing poetry.
  • “POWER OF PUBLISHING”: Practical strategies for making the publishing process a powerful and painless part of your classroom.

    • Teacher Coaching

    As a companion to the seminars, Write On! will work both inside and outside the classroom with individual teachers to:

  • Model writing lessons.
  • Teach writing alongside the teacher.
  • Assist in conferencing with students.
  • Provide positive, helpful feedback.
  • Assist in setting up the writer’s workshop.
  • Write mini-lessons for specific needs

    • Write On! also uses coaching time to work with teachers in team level and interest groups—for example meeting with all the second grade teachers in a grade level meeting to problem solve or create mini lessons for a specific writing unit. It’s an innovative method of training that is advocated across the nation as one of the most powerful, effective, and permanent means of real change and improvement in the classroom.