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The National Writing Project in Vermont and Marlboro College
Announce a Week-long Writing/Teaching Institute
for Teachers, K-12
“Writing and Really Writing: An Exploration of Ways to Inspire Student Writers”
9 AM–3 PM, Mon.–Fri., June 27-July 1, 2005
at the Marlboro College Graduate Center, Brattleboro
Registration fee: $375
This can be taken as a 2-credit Graduate or Undergraduate level course.
(The ‘for credit’ fee to take this course is $700 (inclusive of the regular registration fee)).
• Explore assignments that engage students, improve writing, meet state standards and grade expectations
• Learn techniques of writing from the inside out, experimenting with many forms
across the curriculum
and across the demands of your life
• Read and discuss with colleagues the best of current professional literature
• Build and enjoy a writing community with multiple opportunities to write,
respond to others’ writing, and receive comments on your own writing
Sessions will be led by
Dr. Laura Stevenson, Novelist for Young Adults, Professor of Literature and Humanities, Marlboro College
Natalie Brennan, NWPVT Teacher Consultant, Writer, VSAC Outreach Counselor
Topics we’ll address:
–– Encouraging the reluctant student writer
–– Responding to student writing
–– Reading like a writer
–– Writing on demand: expository writing, the SATs, the college essay, standards, and the grade expectations
–– Writing for fun and profit
–– Publishing student work
–– Blogging
Apply now!
Questions? Contact ghewitt@doe.state.vt.us or call (802) 828-3158
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