Apply
to the Invitational Summer Institute
of the National Writing Project in Vermont
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Course Description
The Invitational Summer Institute of the National Writing Project in
Vermont brings together a group of experienced teachers of all
subjects, from kindergarten through college. During two pre-institute
orientation days, four 4-day weeks, and two follow-up sessions, fellows
look at themselves as writers, teachers and researchers.
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Fellows write, respond to each
other’s writing, revise and publish throughout the summer
institute, learning writing from the inside out and profoundly
informing their instruction.
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National Writing Project fellows
draw on the research and experience of others across the profession and
across the years, reading and applying the works of other
teacher-writers such as Donald Murray, James Britton, Nancy Martin, Ken
Macrorie, James Moffett, and Nancie Atwell. |
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Fellows prepare, refine,
present and
respond to research-based teaching demonstrations, transferable across
grades and subject areas. Upon successful completion of the
Invitational Summer Institute, teachers may become part of
NWP-VT’s established corps of writing consultants for Vermont
schools and school districts.
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Details
The Summer
Institute begins with a two-day orientation retreat. Summer sessions run Mondays through Thursdays
in
July. All fellows attend a follow-up session in
September. Fellows receive a stipend of $600 and are
eligible for six graduate credits in Education or English.
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To Apply:
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this space for the application
form.
NWP-VT will accept
applications until the Institute is fully enrolled.
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Erin McGuire,
Social Studies teacher
Colchester High School |
"The NWP Summer Institute was far more valuable
than any other professional development I have experienced:
personally and professionally challenging, collaborative, engaging, and
best of all, fun. . .I am already seeing the impact in my classroom."
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 Julie Pidgeon, Grades 7 & 8 Teacher
Folsom School |
"It was transforming! I am thinking
about my teaching in new ways and now have a strong network to draw
from. What I loved about the summer institute was its focus
on teachers as the source of their own learning. NWP-VT does not
preach about six steps to success and paper us with programs and
handouts; instead, it teaches by having its teachers do what we are
asking our students to do."
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"I was exposed to a diverse yet focused
collection of practices... in a longer, more intense immersion than any I have
had. There was a balance of seriousness with humor, creativity
with precision, knowledge with questioning, reading with writing, and
being a learner with being a teacher. I had a total workout."
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 Ed Lewis, 5th and 6th Grade Teacher
Cabot School |
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"Like Reading Recovery® work, this
is an ongoing community of learners based on a social constructivist
theory of learning with intense rigor, academic excellence and room for
being human. Hurrah!" |
Lisa H. Italiano, Reading Recovery® Teacher Leader
Orchard Elementary School, South Burlington |
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