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Examples of CWP Workshop Topics

CWP staff and Teacher-Consultants have expertise in a variety of areas. Below are examples of the types of workshops that CWP Teacher-Consultants can provide to school districts. Do you have a topic that you don't see in this list? Ask and we'll customize to meet your needs.

Writing as Process

  • "Rehearsing Techniques"
  • "Prewriting Theory and Practice"
  • "The Content Conference and the Teacher's Role"
  • "The Writing Conference: Coaching for Better Writing"
  • "Responding to Student Writing"
  • "Write to Publish"
  • "Publish Your Own Magazine"

Evaluation and Assessment

  • "Evaluation to Promote Learning"
  • "Performance-Based Assessment: Helping Our Students Become Independent Learners"
  • "Class-Generated Writing Criteria: Stepping Stones to Self-Evaluation"
  • "Portfolio Assessment: Empowering Students Through Evaluation"

Revision and Editing

  • "What We Say and What We Do: Enabling Content Revision"
  • "Peer Response Groups: A Bridge to Peer Revision"
  • "To Revise or to Edit That is Not the Question"
  • "Focus on Writing: Putting Grammar Instruction into Perspective"
  • Writing to Learn "Teaching Writing as a Way of Learning"
  • "Write to Learn: Using Writing Across the Curriculum"
  • "Writing as a Way of Knowing"
  • "Using Writing to Learn Content...Together"
  • "Provoking Your Students: Using Writing to Promote Personal Interaction History"
  • "Writing as Inquiry in Science"

The Reading/Writing Connection

  • "The Reading/Writing Connection: Using Literature as a Model for Writing"
  • "Reading Workshop"
  • "Integrating Language Arts Through Literature"
  • "Read to Write: The Poetry Connection"
  • "Reading/Writing: Making an Active Connection"

Reader Response

  • "Close Misreading: Student Response to Poetry as a Springboard to Dialogue"
  • "Encouraging Meaningful Responses to Literature"
  • "Literature in the Classroom: Reading, Writing, and Literary Response"
  • "Narrative Thinking"
  • "Editorials and the Development of Critical Thinking"

Writing and Technology

  • "Computers and Revision in the Writing Process"
  • "Working Networks"
  • "Reader Response Using Blogs"
  • "Packing a Punch with PowerPoint"
  • "Internet Tools to Extend Audiences"
  • "Computers and Writing: A Look Beyond Basic Word Processing"

Writing and the Arts

  • "Poetry Techniques for Writing Teachers"
  • "A Lesson in Poetry"
  • "Making Meaning: Connecting Art and Writing"
  • "Discovering Meaning Through the Music/Language Arts Connection"
  • "Readers' Theater: A Dynamic Way to Integrate the Curriculum"
  • "Playwriting-To-Learn"
  • "Taking the Mystery Out of Free Verse Poetry"
  • "Hitchcock in the Classroom Using Film to Generate Writing"

Exposition

  • "The Essay Connection"
  • "Dealing With the Abstract and Concrete in Composition"
  • "Structuring the Essay"
  • "Moving from Personal Response to Analysis"

Other Workshop Topics

  • "Emergent Literacy"
  • "Gender Issues"
  • "Interdisciplinary Learning"
  • "Special Education/Learning Disabled/ESL"
  • "Scaffolding"
  • "Speaking/Writing Connection"
  • "Writers' Workshop"
  • "Critical Thinking"
  • "Literacy Issues"
  • "Workshops for Administrators on Assessment and Evaluation"

For more information contact: Lynn Hoffman, In-Service Program Leader at (860) 757-6323 or via e-mail at: lhoffman@crec.org.