A Collins Writing Program Workshop  

Improving Student Performance Through Writing and Thinking Across the Curriculum ~ Princeton, NJ 

 Grades 4 to 12

WORKSHOP OVERVIEW  

For teachers in all subject areas at grades 4 and above, department heads, principals, supervisors, curriculum committee members, and special educators.

This is our foundation workshop. It shows teachers in any content area how to use the Five Types of Writing to increase students' understanding and retention of course content while simultaneously increasing student involvement and motivation to learn. Most importantly, this workshop gives teachers the help they need to efficiently and fairly evaluate writing so that students become more skillful as a result of the process.

All participants will receive a complimentary copy of The Collins Writing Program: Improving Student Performance Through Writing and Thinking Across the Curriculum by John Collins.

 PARTICIPANTS WILL LEARN HOW TO . . . 

• Integrate writing into every class without sacrificing the teaching of content 
• Use writing to save time during classroom instruction without piles of additional papers to correct
• Use writing as a catalyst to enhance the quality of classroom discussions
• Employ the power of "effortful retrieval"
• Empower students to use self-monitoring and peer feedback during the writing process--accomplish more in less time
• Quickly create great writing assignments that promote learning of content and motivate students
• Improve writing skills and content knowledge using the four essential writing assignments
• Implement a portfolio and authentic assessment model that's manageable
• Use the Five Types of Writing to improve test scores and help achieve "Adequate Yearly Progress"
• Tie it all together--integrating workshop content with portfolio and authentic assessment techniques, mastery learning, differentiated instruction, and outcomes-based education in today's classroom  . 

Registration Fee: The fee is $150 per workshop if you register fourteen days or more before the date of the workshop, $175 thereafter.

Cancellation Policy: The entire tuition fee is fully refundable up to three business days prior to the workshop. Thereafter, a $25 cancellation fee will be charged.

No-risk Guarantee: If for any reason you are not happy with a workshop, we will gladly refund your participant fee.

Still have questions? Please contact us.

Collins Education Associates