The Innovative Northwest Teacher

DISTANCE CLASSES

Launching the Writing Workshop

        Anne Spady

Develop a deeper understanding of managing a classroom writing workshop as you immerse yourself in the works of Lucy Calkins and the Writing Project from Columbia University. Read, reflect and grow as a teacher of writers through study of this comprehensive overview of the processes and the structures of a writing workshop.

Included will be developing techniques on conferencing with young writers, art of observing, interviewing and probing techniques, and ways to redirect young writers.

Launching the K-2 Writing Workshop is for K-2nd   

Launching the Writing Workshop in the Middle Grades is for 3rd-6th

Fall:

   Register anytime until 11/5/10.

    Course work due 12/5/10.        

    Grades posted online (www.pdx.edu) 12/15/10.

Fees:   3 Graduate Quarter Credits: $165 PSU + $480 TINT

     (Noncredit: $480 TINT) 

Fees**

Portland State University is changing the way fees are collected.

Although total tuition amounts are unchanged PSU credit students will now make two payments:

1. 1.a course fee payable to TINT (paid by all students)
   

2. 2. a credit fee payable to PSU (paid by credit students only)
   
   

All materials and assignments will be found online and can be completed through email or sent to your instructor in the mail. Grades available online (www.pdx.edu).

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