Professional Development
The Eastern Illinois
Writing Project
http://www.eiu.edu/~easternwp
announces its Spring 2013 Workshop Series
Creative Teaching That
Meets the Standards:
Integrating Reading and Writing
Throughout the Curriculum
Registration: http://castle.eiu.edu/easternnwp/registration.php
Download the Pamphlet Here
The EIWP workshop series will provide teachers the opportunity to read professionally, participate in small and whole group discussions, learn and practice new teaching strategies that will ultimately improve student writing and learning.
“We write to discover what we think.”
Joan Didion
The Eastern Illinois Writing Project
Monday, February 25, 2013
Monday, March 25, 2013
Monday, April 22, 2013
Monday, May 13, 2013
Sullivan High School Media Center
725 N. Main Street
Sullivan, IL 61951
Registration: Sullivan Teachers please
e-mail Becky Lawson at
lawsonr@sullivan.k12.il.us
and Robin Murray at rlmurray@eiu.edu
All others complete the attached form or register on the EIWP website.
Participants will receive CPDUs
(two per session, six per semester).
For more information, contact
Denise Reid dereid@eiu.edu
Audrey Edwards atedwards@eiu.edu
Robin Murray rlmurray@eiu.edu
Spring 2013 Workshop Series
Creative Teaching That
Meets the Standards:
Integrating Reading and Writing
Throughout the Curriculum
When exploring any topic, writing helps students to see what they are thinking.
This series will show creative ways to integrate reading and writing throughout the curriculum—and still meet the new Illinois Common Core Standards. Come try out a variety of assignments you can use with your students!
Workshop Format
3:30-3:50 Snacks, announcements, and sharing of classroom practices
3:50-5:30 Presentation and practice
Each session will include demonstrations of strategies, participant writing, and time to brainstorm applications to various content areas/topics.
Most sessions will be conducted by practicing teachers who have taken part in previous EIWP Summer Institutes.
Monday, February 25, 2013
Reading Between the Lines: Helping Students
Move Beyond Literal Comprehension
Linda Reven & Denise Reid
Linda and Denise will explore ways to capitalize on the receptive language arts (listening, viewing, reading) to foster deeper comprehension. Participants will try out strategies that use the expressive language arts (speaking, writing, visually representing) to help students demonstrate comprehension of complex texts.
Monday, March 25, 2013
Assessment of Student Writing Samples
Using CCSS
Tammy Bridges
According to Illinois’ new Common Core State Standards (CCSS), educators in every discipline at every grade level must assess the reading and writing that arises from students’ projects. Tammy will demonstrate ways to assess student writing samples using a CCSS rubric.
Monday, April 22, 2013
Prompting Students to Consider
Alternative Viewpoints
Kristin Runyon
Seeing alternative points of view is an important life skill. To create assignments that develop this skill in relation to content knowledge, teachers may connect topics to other content areas or news events. Kristin will develop sample writing prompts from fiction and nonfiction.
Monday, May 13, 2013--Working Session:
Developing Cross-Curricular Projects
Facilitator: Josh Robson
The October 5, 2012 Eastern Illinois Writing Project Institute Day at EIU was a great success thanks to wonderful teachers like you!
Creative Teaching That Meets the Standards: Integrating Reading and Writing Throughout the Curriculum
You’re invited to join us at the Eastern Illinois Writing Project Institute Day at Coleman Hall on the Campus of Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, IL. This year’s conference will focus on best practices to help teachers meet the language arts Common Core Standards
This free Institute Day will run from 8:30 – 1:30 and will include teacher-driven presentations and workshops that allow both attendees and presenters to share effective ideas and confer with one another, emphasizing our belief that the best teachers of teachers are other teachers.
Topics will include the writing workshop approach, writing to learn, implementing language arts Common Core Standards, Implementing Writing Centers in Middle and High Schools, Reading and Writing in Science and Math, Reading and Writing in Social Studies, Assessing Writing Across the Curriculum, and Digital Learning Communities.
Continuing Professional Development: Participants may earn up to 5 Continuing Professional Development Units (CPDUs) toward teacher certification renewal.
Students are welcome to attend, as well!
For more information, please email Robin Murray (rlmurray@eiu.edu) or check our website (www.eiu.edu/~easternnwp). You can also register on our website at http://castle.eiu.edu/~easternnwp/registration.php
The Eastern Illinois Writing Project and
Teaching with Primary Sources Program Present:
The 4th Annual Institute Day!
Featuring Dr. Timothy Shanahan, UIC Center for Literacy
October 5, 2012 in Coleman Hall:
Auditorium and Third Floor Classrooms
The Eastern Illinois Writing Project
And the Teaching with Primary Sources Program
Welcome You!
ABOUT THE PRESENTERS
Our Breakout sessions are all presented by EIWP teaching consultants who have completed our EIWP Summer Institute. Special thanks to these great teacher leaders!
GENERAL SESSION PRESENTER
Timothy Shanahan is Professor of Urban Education at the University of Illinois at Chicago where he is Director of the UIC Center for Literacy.
Tim Shanahan's research emphasizes reading-writing relationships, reading assessment, and improving reading achievement, and he is frequently quoted in media outlets such as the New York Times, Washington Post, and Newsweek, and has appeared on Bloomberg News and the O'Reilly Factor.
A Full Day of Professional Development
(Free!) (5 CPDUs!)
Creative Teaching That Meets the Standards: Integrating Reading and Writing Throughout the Curriculum
- Writing Workshop Approaches
- Cross-Curricular Writing Support Discussion Forums
- Creating a Literary Resume
- Writing to Learn Quick Writes
- Common Core Language Arts Standards
Institute Day Program
8:00: Registration: Coleman Auditorium Foyer (CH 1255)
8:30: General Session:
Dr. Tim Shanahan and the Language Arts Common Core
(CH 1255, Coleman Auditorium)
10:00: Breakout Session I
Sue Fuller, “Writing to Learn” (CH 3210): This session will demonstrate ways to help students write routinely over extended time frames (time for reflection and revision) and shorter time frames (a single sitting or a day or two) for a range of discipline-specific tasks, purposes, and audiences.
Misty Mapes and Al Church, “Moodle Introduction” (CH 3120): Moodle is a fun, free, secure web-application program that allows all students to effectively and routinely “use technology, including the Internet, to produce, publish, and update individual or shared writing products in response to ongoing feedback, including new arguments or information” (CCSS W.11-12.6). Used as a primary classroom environment or as a supplemental resource, Moodle can change the way you teach.
Amber Laquet, “Creative Writing Club” (CH 3130): This session will demonstrate how to successfully implement a creative writing club in an elementary, middle, or high school setting. A creative writing club promotes further opportunities for students to develop their writing craft, as well as share ideas with other writers. It also creates an environment in which students feel comfortable to create works, as well as share, revise, and receive positive feedback from teachers as well as fellow club members.
Kristin Runyon, “Common Core ELA Unit of Study with Primary Sources” (CH 3140): This session will review the PARCC Content Frameworks and, using Jim Burke's What's the Big Idea?, demonstrate a unit of study that incorporates literature and primary sources as a means to develop analysis skills. The unit demonstrated will be for the high school level, but the PARCC content frameworks are available for all grade levels.
Mary St. Clair, “Art, History, Literacy” (CH 3150): Cross-curricular units can deepen understanding of history, literature, writing, and art, as befits the new Core Standards. In this session, we will look at one such unit. We will view the book Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes, make origami cranes like those in the book, and write haiku. We will also see examples of related student art and writing.
Tim McGinness, “Creating Word Banks for Writing” (CH 3160): This session will provide ways for students to create a word bank of nouns, adjectives, verbs, and adverbs. Students can use the word bank to create pieces of writing, including narrative paragraphs.
Sally Renaud and Carol Smith, “Teaching journalism writing skills in the classroom” (CH 3170): Get students excited about writing while they learn valuable skills for other classes. This session covers basic journalism skills such as researching, effective note-taking, interviewing and story writing. Students might even choose to produce a class newspaper or mini-yearbook at the end of the unit.
11:00: Breakout Session II
Sue Fuller, “Writing to Learn” (CH 3210): This session will demonstrate ways to help students write routinely over extended time frames (time for reflection and revision) and shorter time frames (a single sitting or a day or two) for a range of discipline-specific tasks, purposes, and audiences.
Misty Mapes, Experiencing Moodle from a Student's Perspective (CH 3120): This hands-on session will allow you to participate in a low-pressure (no-pressure) "course," where you can take a practice quiz, engage in a threaded discussion, fill out a survey, and submit an "assignment" online, thus experiencing Moodle as a student.
Becky Lawson, “Literary Resume” (CH 3130): As teachers, we teach students many types of writing. We teach kids how to write poems, book reports, essays, short stories, etc. However, we rarely teach them how to write for the work world. Writing a resume is an important skill for students to learn. This session will demonstrate how to create a resume for a literary character (preferably one from a piece of literature studied during the current school year).
Linda Richards, “Music, Rhythm, and Writing the Kindergarten Way!” (CH 3140): This session will illustrate how to introduce pre-reading and pre-writing skills in relation to the sounds and to expose children to listening, evaluating, and using critical thinking skills to experience, discover, and master the musical concepts.
Mary St. Clair, “Art, History, Literacy” (CH 3160): Cross-curricular units can deepen understanding of history, literature, writing, and art, as befits the new Core Standards. In this session, we will look at one such unit. We will view the book Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes, make origami cranes like those in the book, and write haiku. We will also see examples of related student art and writing.
Tim McGinness, “Creating Word Banks for Writing” (CH 3160): This session will provide ways for students to create a word bank of nouns, adjectives, verbs, and adverbs. Students can use the word bank to create pieces of writing, including narrative paragraphs.
Al Church, “Games and Literacy Across the Curriculum” (CH 3170): "In this session, we will encounter some examples of student designed games, and explore reasons for gaming across the curriculum. Be prepared to answer this question: What is your favorite game, and why is it your favorite?
12:00 Catered Lunch (Rathskeller/7th Street Underground)
General Session:
Tim Shanahan: Applying Language Arts Common Core Standards Across the Curriculum
Continuing Professional Development:
Participants may earn up to 5 Continuing
Professional Development Units (CPDUs) toward teacher certification renewal.
All students will receive a certificate of completion.
