Achieve Writing Proficiency™
Developed to help educators teach writing, use graphic organizers, and use appropriate language for each genre. In this program, teachers will gain knowledge about their state writing standards and assessments as well as have the opportunity to examine strategies for managing and teaching writing.
Delivery Models:
The Achieving Writing Proficiency™ course is designed as a turnkey program that can be facilitated by your own district or school staff developers and can be done at times that are convenient for your personnel.
The program can also be delivered by our trained professional development consultant at your site. The workshop is conducted over a 2-day period.
| As a result of this course, the participant will be able to: |
- Compare traditional teaching-writing methods to current teaching-writing research
- Demonstrate an understanding of editing/revision mini-lessons
- Recognize the elements of six writing genres: personal narrative, imaginative narrative, persuasive, how-to, research, and compare and contrast
- Model the writing process: prewriting, drafting, editing and revision, mini-lessons
- Analyze student writing using rubrics for assessment and long-range planning
- Increase their awareness of state writing standards
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