UC Merced Writing Project 2005

1. UC Merced Writing Project 2005 DAY ONE of a 4- week Invitational Summer Institute The Directors welcome the new Fellows

2. Each Morning begins withJournaling • Good writing teachers write themselves. • The Daily Journal is a good place to start.

3. Daily Journaling • Journaling provides a non-threatening place in which writers experiment with ideas and with language. • We wrote for 20 minutes every morning.

4. Daily Journaling • Journaling allows for a variety of ways to think AND process information. Journaling makes thinking visible.

5. Writing the Daily Log • The Daily Log is a record of each day’s events. • Writing a Daily Log gives opportunities to be creative with report writing.

6. Reading the Daily Log • The Logs take on the genres of letters, stories, poems, songs, tests, news articles, myths, plays, and so on • Each day was captured artistically by the Daily Log

7. Daily Logs Also Entertain

8. Best Practice Demonstrations • Teaching demonstrations are the core of our Leadership Training Institute for Fellows. • Each demonstration begins with a formal introduction of the presenters by their interview partners (Yet another way of writing).

9. Teaching Demonstrations • Showing and discussing student work is an integral component of the demonstrations “This is what my students did.”

10. Fellows Actively Participate In All The Presentations Which punctuation mark am I supposed to be? Don’t look at me like that! I’m a quotation mark!

11. Group Writing • Teaching demonstrations encourage Fellows to actively participate & share knowledge.

12. Fellows Address The Spectrum of K-14 Teaching Teaching writing from kindergarten through college…it’s the same process!

13. Collaboration During Presentations • The composing process often involves the collaboration of ideas and discussion of how to best express those ideas.

14. Writing Groups:Compose, Respond, Revise, Edit • We wrote a new essay for our writing groups every Monday, got substantial feedback during the week, and revised it by Thursday. • The type of writing varied from narrative to exposition to persuasive.

15. Successful Writing Groups Involve: • Building Trust • Being Honest • Close Reading • Identifying Development Opportunities • Taking the Challenge

16. Reading Research on the Teaching of Writing We read & discussed books and articles written about the teaching of writing.

17. Graduation Day! From Fellow to UCMWP Teacher Consultant

18. Leadership Opportunities Abound • Professional Development is the key to continual growth for all educators • UC Merced Writing Project Offers many opportunities for teachers to grow Summer Presenter or Returning Fellow, Coach…

19. Life After the Summer Institute • Workshop Presenter • Inservice Coordinator • Teacher Researcher • Writing Group • Reading Group • School Partnership Coordinator or Coach • Special Interest Study >ELL Network >State Standards • Advanced Institute Participant

20. Thank you for your support! Please call the UC Merced Writing Project for your Staff Development needs in improving the teaching of writing. We are a NCLB authorized agency.