Shaun Hawthorne & Mike Fowler NZATE Writing Project Presentation July, 2010

1. Shaun Hawthorne & Mike Fowler NZATE Writing Project Presentation July, 2010 contact Shaun by email - shawthorne@mrgs.school.nz contact Mike by email – vislearn@xtra.co.nz

2. Presentation Outline

3. Facts about writing in NZ

8. What types of writing are students most involved with in secondary school?

9. What types of writing activities are most prevalent in secondary schooling?

10. From: “Teaching Writing to High School Students: A (US) National Survey” (Kiuhara et al, 2009)

11. From: “Teaching Writing to High School Students: A (US) National Survey” (Kiuhara et al, 2009)

12. Differences between subjects

13. Talking Points • How do these stats from the US survey compare with your own rating? • Were there any surprises for you in this data? • Do you take any messages from these statistics?

14. Key Principles in teaching writing

15. We believe that some key principles that underpin effective teaching of writing are:

16. Four types of knowledge writers need to write well

18. Talking Points • To what extent to you think your own and your department’s teaching of writing aligns with these key principles? • To what extent do you think your own and your department’s teaching of writing focuses on each area of knowledge that students’ need to be effective in their writing?

19. Seven Effective Instructional Practices

22. Talking Point • To what extent to you think your own and your department’s teaching of writing aligns with these seven effective practices? • Where would you start if you were going to make a change in your teaching of writing? • How might this resource assist you in PD around the teaching of writing?

23. Ways you could use this resource in PD around teaching writing

24. WAYS OF USING THE RESOURCE IN PD 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.

25. Supplementary slides

26. Outline of Feedback Steps – from Jennifer Glen’s process

27. How to respond to student work

28. What does the research literature say are the most effective ways of teaching writing?

29. From: “Effective Ways of Teaching Complex Expression in Writing” (Myhill et al, 2008)

30. From: “Beating the Odds: Teaching Middle and High School Students to Read and Write Well” (Langer, 2001).

31. From: “Writing Next”: Meta-analysis of effective strategies for improving writing (Graham & Perin, 2007)

32. From: “Writing: Teachers and Children at Work” 20th Anniversary Edition (Graves, 2003)

33. From: Bennet Woods Elementary School study (Pressley et al, 2007)