Fwd: BAWP Summer 2008 Workshops for teachers

[Peter Farruggio <pfarr@cal.berkeley.edu>]

> BAY AREA WRITING PROJECT'S SUMMER 2008 WORKSHOPS FOR TEACHERS
>
> The following nine workshops are open to all teachers and educators and
> take place on the UC Berkeley campus except as noted. A downloadable
> registration form is available on our web site:
> www.bayareawritingproject.org.
>
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> TEACHING WRITING IN THE SECONDARY CLASSROOM
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> Grades 6-12
> Instructors: M. Clare LePell & Leslie Moitoza
> July 28-August 8, 2008, Monday-Friday
> 9:00 A.M. to 3:00 P.M.
> Cost: $350
> (optional 3 units of UC Extension credit available for $275)
>
> This workshop provides a broad perspective on the teaching of writing.
> Through interactive, hands-on teaching demonstrations, you will experience
> classroom-tested and research-based approaches to the teaching of writing.
> You will write frequently and share your writing in small groups, and
> through discussions of class readings, explore issues and questions about
> writing. The workshop provides time and support to generate lessons based
> on your curriculum and classroom texts. You will have an opportunity to
> learn more about:
>
> -- teaching writing in diverse multilingual, multicultural classrooms
> -- creating writing assignments that build students' skills and help meet
> the state standards in writing
> -- establishing a framework through which students can explore different
> writing genres
> -- cultivating academic language in the classroom
> -- assisting students in accessing text in order to generate strong
> content for their writing
> -- helping students revise their writing
>
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> GRAMMAR FOR TEACHERS
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> Grades 6-college
> Instructor: Nelson Graff
> July 14-25, Monday-Friday
> 9:00 a.m.-noon
> Cost: $325
> (optional 2 units of UC Extension credit available for $220)
>
> This workshop is recommended for teachers of grades six through college
> who are interested in learning more about the relationship between the
> knowledge of grammar and the teaching of writing. Practical workshop
> exercises will cover the basics: parts of speech, the English verb system,
> 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.
>
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> DIGITAL STORYTELLING IN THE CLASSROOM
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> All Grades
> Instructors: Clifford Lee and Yumi Matsui
> August 4-8, Monday-Friday
> 9:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
> Location: Life Academy, 2111 International Blvd., Oakland
> Space is limited to 15 participants
> Cost: $250
> (optional 1 unit of UC Extension credit available for $175)
>
> Have you ever thought about producing a film? Do you have trouble getting
> ALL students engaged in a writing activity? Do you want to learn more
> about integrating technology into your classroom? If you answered yes to
> any of these questions, then this is the BAWP summer workshop you're
> looking for! In one week, you will learn to use iMovie to produce your own
> digital story (written, narrated, edited, and possibly shot by you). You
> will learn the scaffolding and skills to create digital stories with your
> students in your own classroom. You will leave the workshop with a copy of
> your digital story to share with friends, family and students. This
> workshop is supported by the Pearson Foundation.
>
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> SUMMER WRITING WORKSHOP FOR TEACHERS
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> All Grades
> Instructor: Meredith Pike-Baky
> Choose from two locations:
> June 16-20, Education Task Force, Larkspur
> June 23-27, UC Berkeley Campus
> Monday-Friday, 9:00 a.m.-noon
> Cost: $225
> (optional 1 unit of Sonoma State University credit for $45)
>
> Reserve some time for yourself to write this summer! Join the growing
> group of teacher-writers who have spent time increasing their confidence,
> developing their skills, and participating in interactive writing
> activities that work with students at all grades and levels. You'll read
> inspiring models and collaborate with colleagues to produce an anthology.
> Join us for the sixth year of this summer workshop by living BAWP's belief
> that teachers become better teachers of writing by writing themselves.
>
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> MAKING A SCENE: PLAYWRITING WORKSHOP
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> All Grades
> Instructor: John Levine
> June 30-July 3, Monday-Thursday
> 9:00 A.M. to Noon
> Cost: $180
> (Due to its short duration, this workshop does not qualify for UC
> Extension credit)
>
> Whether you teach reading or composition, language arts or social studies,
> history or even math or science, you are sure to benefit from this
> week-long workshop on how to make a play. So much of what goes on in our
> classrooms is dramatic--why not learn the basics of how drama works?
> Discover new ways of inspiring your students through "play" as we make the
> link between playwriting and the teaching of various disciplines. And if
> you simply want to come to write your own play--and not think about
> teaching applications--that's fine too. The focus of the workshop will be
> on the short-form play. The week will culminate with an informal reading
> of our work. Everyone is welcome; no prior playwriting experience
> necessary.
>
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> FINDING THE POETIC HIGH: BUILDING A SPOKEN WORD CULTURE WITH YOUTH
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> Grades 4-12
> Instructor: Gerald Reyes
> July 7-11, 2008
> Monday-Friday, 9:00 am-noon
> Location: Oakland Leaf, 1419 34th Avenue, Oakland
> Cost: $225
> (optional 1 unit of UC Extension credit available for $175)
>
> Emcee Black Thought from the Roots professed wisdoms from his soul when he
> spit, "be a true friend to him... before the [streets] put an end to
> him..give a pen to him... or lock him in a studio with a mic...'cause on
> the reals it might save his life."
>
> Inviting one's own voice as a credible and authentic medium of
> communication has liberating effects particularly in our inner cities
> where voices are often discredited. Participants will use basic
> pedagogical foundations to interweave Hip Hop Theatre, Writing Workshop,
> Performance Poetry, and their own experiences to explore pedagogical
> theories, methods, and practices of building a community & culture of
> critical, creative, and socially just spoken word youth poets.
> Participants will also explore their own identities as spoken word poets,
> as they engage in learning activities that scaffold the precise writing
> and sharing of spoken word poetry. The week of celebrating voice and
> learning culminates into an authentic Spoken Word Poetry event at a local
> cafe where each Poetic High participant acts as the featured poet. The
> hands-on experiences in Poetic High allows participants to act as culture
> producers rather than being mere culture consumers, exemplifying the
> notion that we can be our own authorities in ideas & inspiration.
> Throughout this process of exploring themselves as spoken word poets,
> participants will be accumulating a bank of activities, model poems, and
> lessons that can be directly applied towards integrating the Spoken Word
> into their own curriculum and class culture.
>
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> THE POWER OF GENRE STUDY: THE READING-WRITING CONNECTION
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> Grades: K-6
> July 7 - 11
> Monday-Friday, 9:00 a.m.-noon
> Instructor: Jennifer Nguyen
> Cost: $225
> (optional 1 unit of UC Extension credit available for $175)
> Location: Sankofa Academy School, 581 61st Street, Oakland
>
> This workshop is for teachers who want to engage their students in writing
> in a variety of genres, using a writing workshop approach. During the
> workshop, we will begin with a framework for guiding students through
> genre studies using an inquiry-driven model as outlined in Heather
> Lattimer's book, Thinking Through Genre. Then we'll move to our own study
> of two genres, a memoir text and an expository text, to experience the
> power of being immersed in a genre as a reader and then transferring that
> knowledge to writing in that genre. Included in this week will be
> mini-lessons focused on the writing process and discussions about how to
> use backwards-planning templates to aid in the development of a genre
> study. The workshop provides models, support, and time to begin planning
> your own 4-8 week genre study, based on state standards for your grade
> level. The in-depth, inquiry-driven nature of this framework is powerfully
> engaging for students of all ages!
>
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> THROUGH THE EYES OF SCIENTISTS: AN EXPLORATION OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM
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> Grades 1-6
> Instructors: Linda Block, Sally Feldman and Alexa Stuart
> Guest Instructors: Ruth Paglierani, Project FIRST, UC Berkeley and Laurie
> Thompson, Cal Tech's Pre-College Science Initiative
> July 23-25
> Wednesday-Friday, 9:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.
> Free (optional 1 unit of UC Extension credit available for $175)
> Location: To be announced.
>
> This workshop is supported by NASA and the NASA Jet Propulsion Lab and is
> free to teachers. Space is limited to 30 participants.
>
> What are the practices of real scientists as they conduct research, carry
> out experiments, and pursue new ideas and concepts? How do we capture the
> excitement of real inquiry, the heart of scientific work, for our
> students? What roles does writing play in the work of scientists? This
> workshop will introduce you to new lessons and materials with the theme,
> "Through the Eyes of Scientists," developed for NASA by the workshop's
> instructors. Join us in exploring our Solar System through hands-on
> astronomy activities and interdisciplinary lessons that use guided,
> scaffolded inquiry to blend science and language arts in a design that
> maximizes the opportunity for all students to learn and make meaning.
> Learn how the use of student notebooks is key to the learning process.
> Gain deeper understanding of the Solar System and discover new teaching
> strategies as we explore topics such as how the Solar System works; the
> great variety of moons in the Solar System; volcanoes, canyons and valleys
> on other planets; ice in its many forms, and much, much more. Get young
> students excited about space science. BAWP and Project FIRST will offer a
> follow up session for participants to support them during the school year
> in trying out lessons from the workshop.
> Workshop activities and materials, which are classroom tested and
> research-based, were developed by the Bay Area Writing Project and Project
> FIRST at UC Berkeley, Cal Tech's Pre-College Science Initiative and NASA
> scientists and engineers.
>
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> GET SMART WITH ART: THE BAWP/deYOUNG SUMMER MINI-INSTITUTE
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> Grades: K-8
> Instructors: BAWP and Museum Staff
> July 29-August 8
> Tuesday-Friday
> 9:00 A.M. to 3:00 p.m.
> Cost: $250
> Location: de Young Museum, Golden Gate Park
>
> This mini institute brings together the resources of the de Young Museum
> in San Francisco and UC Berkeley's Bay Area Writing Project to provide
> teachers with an opportunity to develop confidence in working with the
> museum's art collections as a teaching and learning resource and expand
> teachers' understanding of the multiple roles writing can play in
> students' learning. In collaborative sessions, designed to encourage the
> free exchange of ideas and questions, teachers will work with museum staff
> and BAWP teacher consultants in activities that include:
>
> -- engaging in Visual Teaching Strategies as a foundational experience to
> demonstrate the multiplicity of meanings generated by the museum
> experience
> -- interacting with museum curators to gain deeper understanding of the
> collections
> -- shadowing conservators for a behind-the-scenes look at how collections
> are cared for, restored, documented and displayed
> -- furthering observation skills through guidance by a master artist
> -- reading and discussing articles concerning museum practice and the
> teaching writing
> -- using writing as a tool for analysis, reflection and learning
>
> The mini institute will focus on developing a thematic set of lessons
> directly related to teachers' grade levels and the museum's collections.
> Using the museum's curriculum Get Smart with Art and BAWP-developed
> writing ideas as departure points and the museum as their lab, teachers
> will explore possibilities for cross-curricular work, find new ways to
> engage students in art and writing, and share and develop strategies and
> skills to enrich their teaching. Throughout, BAWP teacher consultants and
> the museum's education staff will serve as coaches to support teachers'
> work. In addition, BAWP and the museum will offer a follow up Saturday
> during the school year, and the museum will arrange school visits and
> other additional support for teachers.
>
> To participate in the Get Smart with Art mini institute, please complete
> the supplemental application which we will posted on the BAWP web site in
> late March/early April. Application due May 2, notification by May 16. A
> completed registration form is also required.