December Weekend Workshops

The December weekend consists of two-day writing and thinking workshops for teachers of all subjects. Writing and Thinking and Writing to Learn are the core Institute workshops and the best introduction to IWT writing practices.

December Weekend Workshops

quotation markFantastic exercises, a great flow to the weekend. I truly feel enlightened and refreshed and eager to use what I’ve learned. Revolutionary Grammar 12/08quotation mark

—High school English teacher

The December weekend consists of two-day writing and thinking workshops for teachers of all subjects. Writing and Thinking and Writing to Learn are the core Institute workshops and the best introduction to IWT writing practices.

December 2-4, 2011

The December weekend presents two days of concurrent workshops that provide a place for intellectual engagement where teachers of all subjects can write, read, and learn through collaboration and where teachers learn how to sequence writing practices that help students develop as readers and writers. Schools are encouraged to send interdisciplinary teams of teachers who can begin discussion of how best to transfer these writing skills from one subject to another.

The 2012 December workshops will be posted during the summer. For your reference, the December 2011 workshops included:

  • Writing and Thinking
  • Writing to Learn
  • Teaching the Academic Paper
  • Fictions: Memory and Imagination
  • Poetry: Reading, Writing, Teaching
  • Thinking Historically through Writing: Case Studies in American History  

December Workshop Schedule

 
Friday
5:30 p.m.  -  Registration
6:30 p.m.  -  Dinner
7:30–9:00 p.m.  -  Session 1

Saturday
8:00–9:00 a.m.  -  Breakfast
9:00–10:30 a.m.  -  Session 2
10:30–11:00 a.m.  -  Break
11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.  -  Session 3
12:30–2:00 p.m.  -  Lunch
2:00–3:30 p.m.  -  Session 4
3:30–4:00 p.m.  -  Break
4:00–5:30 p.m.  -  Session 5
6:00 p.m.  -  Reception
7:00 p.m.  -  Dinner on your own

Sunday
8:00–9:00 a.m.  -  Breakfast
9:00–10:30 a.m.  -  Session 6
10:30–11:00 a.m.  -  Break
11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.  -  Session 7
12:30 p.m.  -  Lunch & departure