COLLINS INSTITUTE
IMPROVING STUDENT
PERFORMANCE THROUGH WRITING AND THINKING ACROSS THE
CURRICULUM
(grades,
content, & length may vary by location)
For
teachers in all subject areas, department heads,
principals, supervisors, curriculum coordinators, 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 skillful as a result of the process.
PARTICIPANTS WILL LEARN
HOW TO . . .
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Integrate writing
into every class―without sacrificing the teaching of content
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Use writing to save time during classroom
instruction without piles of additional papers to correct
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Utilize writing as a catalyst to
enhance the quality of classroom discussions
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Employ the power of “effortful retrieval”
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Empower students to use self-monitoring
and peer feedback during the writing process—accomplish more in
less time
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Quickly create great writing assignments
that promote learning of content and motivate students
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Improve writing skills and content
knowledge using the four essential assignments
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Implement a portfolio and authentic
assessment model that is manageable
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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
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Use the Collins Writing Program as a
school-wide effort for improving students’ cross-curricular
literacy development
NOTE: A one
graduate credit option is available for our
two
day institutes through Endicott College in Beverly, MA.
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