Chapters International

Overview:

Student engagement is critical to learning. We know that when students are engaged, it has a huge impact on whether students retain and reapply what they learn in the future.

However, all too often, students aren’t that engaged in writing, and write mostly out of compliance, or don’t write that much at all.

The focus of this webinar series is on how to increase your students’ engagement in writing. Carl and Matt will discuss practical, high-impact actions you can take to help students become more engaged, day in and day in your writing workshop:

Including craft and process units of study in your writing curriculum that give student choice of genre, a key to student engagement.
Making room in your writing curriculum for high-engagement genre studies that are guaranteed to raise the level of student excitement for writing.
Discussing engagement explicitly with your students, and the conditions for engagement, so they’re able to monitor their engagement, and take steps to increase it.
Identifying mentor texts for units of study that inspire and excite students about what they’re going to write in the units.
Devoting time at the beginning of units of study to immersing students in mentor texts, which helps energize them about the writing they’re going to be doing.
Teaching lessons to students on finding engaging topics.
Connecting with students in writing conferences in ways that increase engagement.
Helping students find audiences that will help them feel that writing is more authentic, and therefore more engaging.

During the webinar series, you’ll not only hear Carl and Matt discuss these topics, but you’ll also see video of them demonstrating these engagement strategies.

By the end of this series, participants will leave ready to take the actions discussed right away, and dramatically lift the level of their students’ engagement.

CARL ANDERSON

Carl Anderson is an internationally recognized expert in writing instruction for grades K-8. He works as a consultant in schools and districts around the world. Carl is the author of numerous books on teaching writing, including the new How to Become a Better Writing Teacher (with Matt Glover, Fall, 2023), A Teacher's Guide to Mentor Texts K-5, A Teacher’s Guide to Writing Conferences, How's It Going? A Practical Guide to Conferring with Student Writers, as well as Assessing Writers and the Strategic Writing Conferences series.

MATT GLOVER

Matt Glover has been a teacher, principal, and consultant for over 30 years. Matt’s most recent books are How to Become a Better Writing Teacher (with Carl Anderson, Fall, 2023), and Craft and Process Studies, which focuses on increasing student engagement through choice of genre. He is also the author and co-author of many titles including I Am Reading, Engaging Young Writers, Projecting Possibilities for Writers, Already Ready, and Watch Katie and Matt … Sit Down and Teach Up, a video-enhanced ebook. Matt was also co-editor with Ellin Oliver Keene of a best-selling collection of essays, The Teacher You Want to Be.

INVESTMENT

USD 500 Per Participant

INCLUDES: Certificate of Participation for 10 Professional Development hours.

Upcoming Workshops

Online Workshop: Nurturing and Cultivating Cultures of Curiosity: Leading with a Lens of Inquiry

- By Jessica Vance

13th & 20th April 2024

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