Archived 2006
SJAWP
Programs
at
San José State University
Teachers Helping Teachers
Courses are Standards-aligned, approved for HOUSSE points for Highly Qualified Teachers under NCLB, and for AB466 PASSPORT hours.
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March 11, 2006
San José State University
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Luncheon:
Parking at the 7th Street Garage: $8.00.
Free parking at San Fernando and 4th Streets. |
Super Saturday Spring ProgramTheme: Writing to the Test
Choose One of Three Available Sessions
All sessions are conducted by San José Area Writing Project Teacher Consultants Registration: 8:30 AM Programs: 9:00 AM to 12:30 PM Registration Fee:
Preregistration is appreciated but not required. One (1) upper division/graduate–level semester unit available for $100.00, and…
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Welcome and Setting the Focus
Sweeney Hall
San José Area Writing Project
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K–4 Genre WritingK–4 Maria Smith will guide K–4 teachers through narrative, expository, and response to literature genres, building on the Step Up to Writing Model.
9:30 AM
Maria Smith
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Making Sense of the 7th Grade Writing Proficiency Test5–8 Kathleen Cohen will assist teachers from grades 5–8 in preparing for and "recovering" from the 7th Grade Writing Proficiency Test.
9:30 AM
Kathleen Cohen
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Indeed: How to Write "Nerd"9–12 Learn an abundance of classroom tested techniques for making the study of vocabulary the most exciting and innovative part of your English Language Arts program.
9:25 AM
Marty Brandt
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Reflection/Debriefing
Focus Question
Sweeney Hall
11:45 AM
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Buffet LunchFree and Open to All
Sweeney Hall
Informal ongoing discussion with Workshop presenters and Teacher Consultant facilitators
12:30 PM
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April 8, 2006
San José State University
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Welcome Session:
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Debriefing:
Luncheon:
Parking at the 7th Street Garage: $8.00.
Free parking at San Fernando and 4th Streets. |
Super Saturday Spring ProgramTheme: Writing in Response to Literature
Choose One of Three Available Sessions
All sessions are conducted by San José Area Writing Project Teacher Consultants Registration: 8:30 AM Programs: 9:00 AM to 12:30 PM Registration Fees:
Preregistration is appreciated but not required. One (1) upper division/graduate level semester unit available for $100.00, and…
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Welcome and Setting the Focus
San José Area Writing Project
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Bringing K–4 Writers into the World of LiteratureK–4 Introduction to a variety of strategies for responding to literature to use with kinder to 4th grade students. Focus will be on guiding students to greater levels of proficiency in this challenging genre of writing.
Jennifer Kim
9:30 AM
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Responding to Literature5–8 This session will provide a demonstration lesson for preparing students for the response to literature prompts at the 4th and 7th grade levels. Participants will learn five easy ways to incorporate oral and written responses to literature into daily practice. A toolkit of writing scaffolds and practice prompts will be provided, with a special focus on English learners and struggling writers.
Margaret Tomita
9:30 AM
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Responding to Literature (9–12)9–12 Learn a multitude of strategies to use to engage high school students with their whole class and independent reading. The focus will be on strategies that provide a clear and compelling purpose and a significant real world audience for high school writers.
Nancy Kennett
9:30 AM
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Reflection/Debriefing
Focus Question
11:45 AM
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Buffet LunchFree and Open to All Informal ongoing discussion with Workshop presenters and Teacher Consultant facilitators
12:30 PM
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April 28, 2006
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Napa ConferenceFor PreK–12th Grade Teachers The purpose of this workshop is to discuss methods of teaching writing. Activities
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San Jose Area Writing Project
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May 6, 2006
Martin Luther King, Jr. Library
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Parking at the 7th Street Garage: $8.00.
Free parking at San Fernando and 4th Streets |
Special Super Saturday Guest SpeakerWorkshop for Young Writers with Chris Crutcher, Young Adult AuthorK–12 Chris Crutcher, the nationally recognized author of Whale Talk, The Sledding Hill, Athletic Shorts, King of the Mild Frontier, Stotan, and many other books, will discuss topics for creative writers, future novelists, and budding authors. This is an opportunity for people to meet and talk with a renown and accomplished writer. |
May 6, 2006
San José State University Schedule for May 6 Program
*Please RSVP for the Luncheon by Monday, May 1, 2006. E-mail or call Mary Warner at (408) 924-4417.
Parking at the 7th Street Garage: $8.00.
Free parking at San Fernando and 4th Streets. |
Super Saturday Spring ProgramTheme: Writing with Voice
Choose One of Four Available Sessions
Registration Fees:
Preregistration is appreciated but not required. One (1) upper division/graduate level semester unit available for $100.00, and…
All sessions are conducted by San José Area Writing Project Teacher Consultants. |
Writing with Voice at the K-4 LevelsFor K–4th Grade Teachers TC Cindy Cohen will guide participants through a sequence of strategies designed to nurture primary–age students' emerging voices.
Cindy Cohen
9:30 AM
Location: Science Building |
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Voices from the MiddleFor 5th–8th Grade Teachers When students put their lives on the page, they often leave out themselves. In Voices from the Middle, TC Jay Richards will share ideas about how to get more voice into your students' writing. Read excerpts from some popular young adult literature Jay's middle schoolers read (including Chris Crutcher), and then learn how to help students write in ways that say, "This is who I am."
Jay Richards
9:30 AM
Location: Science Building |
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Teaching Voice Through Teen Zine PublicationFor 9th–12th Grade Teachers TC Harriet Gracia will introduce participants to the world of online and traditional print magazines, specifically, Youth Outlook and De-Bug, both youth magazine projects in the Bay Area, showing how to encourage at–risk students to produce real–world writing for these publications.
Harriet Garcia
9:30 AM
Location: Sweeney Hall |
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Tell Your Story Contest, Grades K–12For K–12th Grade Teachers SJAWP and Krauss Center for Innovation (KCI) invite you to participate in our 2006-07 "Tell Your Story" challenge. This multimedia story–telling project is both a journalism and technology experience for students of all ages. Using digital tools, your students will integrate photos, videos, text, music and narration to tell your school or classroom story. Don't miss this opportunity for a hands–on learning project integrating technology standards with real life experience. $1000 prizes will be awarded to winning schools and/or teachers, so get a jump start this Super Saturday with free software, instruction, and ideas to create your project.
Laura Mabbott
9:30 AM
Location: Science Building |
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Keynote SpeakerCensorship and YA LiteratureCosponsored by California Center for the Book
11:30 AM
Location: MLK 225 |
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Barbeque Luncheon*Free and Open to All *Please RSVP for the Luncheon by Monday, May 1, 2006. E-mail or call Mary Warner at 408-924-4417.
12:30 PM
Location: Campus side of MLK Library |
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June 20, 2006
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Invitational Summer InstituteK–14 Who is selected for the Institute? 20 teachers from kindergarten to college level who have demonstrated competence and commitment as teachers of English Language Arts in their classrooms. When and where will the Institute take place? The Institute, for those who have been accepted, will begin with a required orientation meeting on Saturday June 3rd from 9:00 AM to 2:00 PM on the San José State University campus. The Institute will then run for 19 sessions from June 20th to July 19th.
Morning sessions will run from 8:15 AM to 12:30 PM. Afternoon sessions will be held from 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM. There will be no afternoon session on the final day of each week. Two follow up sessions will be held during the 2006–2007 school year. What will selected participants receive? All participants selected for the Institute will receive a $750 stipend, plus the option of gaining 6 units of full–semester credit for $50/unit. How do participants apply to the Institute?
Questions?
Contact Jonathan Lovell, Director
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June 26, 2006
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Summer ClassesAll sections are conducted by San Jose Area Writing Project Teacher Consultants Cost
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June 26, 2006
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AP Strategies for the Non-AP Teacher5–Post-Secondary Non-AP teachers looking to teach AP strategies to their students will benefit from this week-long immersion in writing strategies, analytic modes, mythological study, alternative approaches to style and grammar, and expanding your writing curriculum. Going beyond the five–paragraph essay, we will cover multiple approaches to research, varied analytic techniques, and a wide range of structures to prepare students to compose poetry, the personal essay, feature writing, persuasive pieces, and critical analyses. Our study in mythology will explain how to unlock key themes in all literature and use those themes to compose reflective and analytic writing. Finally, we will explore alternative approaches to style to illustrate how studying diction, syntax, and tone is key to developing voice.
Jeff House
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July 10, 2006
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Teaching Vocabulary as a Critical Thinking SkillK–Post-Secondary Participants will start the school year with a wealth of classroom tested techniques making the study of vocabulary an exciting and innovative part of their English Language Arts program. Participants will learn to think of vocabulary—understanding the academic word, choosing the right word and using the best word—as a critical thinking tool. Vocabulary will be connected to writing precise, creative and thoughtful standards-related themes.
Kathleen Cohen
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July 24, 2006
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Teachers as Writers, K–6K–6 Do you know the difference between a retell and a summary? Do you know the difference between a personal narrative and a narrative experience? Do you believe you are a writer? Come learn the different kinds of expository writing, as well as, dive into creative writing! Step Up to Writing strategies will be shared to model organization, and 6 traits +1 strategies will be shared to model editing and revision. Bring TEs in any subject and any writing you have kept (student or teacher samples). Expect to take risks, laugh and reflect because everyone will start the new school year with the confidence that "teachers are writers."
Maria Smith
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August 14, 2006
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Rules to Live By, 7–127–12 This workshop will offer practical strategies to help ease the difficulties and challenges of those daunting first few years in the classroom. We will address the importance of instructional "front-loading" for reading and writing; the effective use of graphic organizers for pre-writing and discussion; the importance of in-depth vocabulary work; the need to lay careful foundations for formal writing assignments; the many perils of Language Arts evaluation. All topics will be spiced heavily with practical classroom strategies that you can begin to modify for incorporation into your curriculum. Perhaps most importantly, we will offer the opportunity for reading, writing, and reflection on our craft, complete with coffee, tea, and lots of empathy!
Martin Brandt
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October 7, 2006
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Keynote SpeakerWhen English Language Learners WriteDr. Katharine Davies Samway, author of When English Language Learners Write, published by Heinemann, 2006. Dr. Samway is a professor of Education at SJSU, where she teaches courses in reading, language arts, assessment, writing and multicultural literature for children and young adults.
9:00 AM
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Down With Drab VocabFor 3rd–8th Grade Teachers Do your students sometimes get that glazed over look in their eyes at the mention of vocabulary? Have you ever thought that there must be a better way? Come and explore different ways to engage students in the study of vocabulary while incorporating various learning styles. This workshop will include games, kinesthetic activities, art and higher level thinking. The activities may be modified to various grade levels and will accommodate ELD students as well as native speakers.
Kathleen Cohen & Nicola Kennedy
9:30 AM
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November 4, 2006
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Resuscitate Your GrammarFor K–Third Grade Teachers Few of us embrace fond memories of grammar practice in school. Yet we observe that strong foundations in syntax and mechanics are the heart of clear, powerful writing. In this workshop, you will be a learner who uses a variety of communication: mime, visual arts, & speech, combined with touchstone texts to understand basic grammar. A multimodal, creative approach to grammar allows learners to process sentences fluently. These memorable activities are adaptable to various elementary reading and writing programs.
Laura Brown
Pamela Cheng
9:30 AM
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Mining Mentor Texts for Grammar GemsFor 4th–8th Grade Teachers While we teachers may feel comfortable with grammar, usage and mechanics and correcting errors in student writing, we may not necessarily feel comfortable teaching these things. Suzanne Murphy, a middle school language arts teacher, will deal with the rules of grammar and how to explain these rules simply and in depth to student writers in 4th through 8th grades. Using direct applications of class mini-lessons, Suzanne will help teachers engage students in the use of age-appropriate literature as mentor texts in writing development. Texts of favorite authors, including Richard Peck, Patricia Reilly Giff and Roald Dahl, serve as models and springboards for grammar-embedded writing instruction.
Suzanne Murphy
9:30 AM
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Crunchy Grammar Goodness!For 9th–12th Grade Teachers Need some substance in that creamy student work? Just add Grammar! Give every lesson a dose of mechanics to keep the classroom regular, but with a kinesthetic taste everyone loves. Warm-ups, make-and-take kits, hands–on activities and games you can use right now make this workshop a must. All structures can be adapted across grade levels, and work well for both native speakers and your English learning population. Teach Grammar—with an exclamation point!
Mara Bennett
9:30 AM
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December 9, 2006
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Using Six Traits Rubrics to Inform Instruction and Show Student GrowthFor K–Third Grade Teachers This workshop will provide you with assessment tools for analyzing student strengths and areas for growth in writing craft. The workshop will include a brief introduction to the Six Traits and instruction in using Six Traits rubrics designed for primary writers. Participants will also receive lesson ideas for teaching the traits to primary students. Please bring five student writing samples for discussion and analysis.
Heather Hebard
9:30 AM
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The Testing Game: Coaching for SuccessFor 4th–8th Grade Teachers Teachers are overwhelmed with the pressures of improving CST, API, and AYP scores. How can teachers best link classroom instruction to meet these expectations? Participants will learn practical and effective ways to align grading, standards, and CST test prep into daily classroom instruction. The use of templates, protocols, and strategies will be shared and demonstrated.
Margaret Tomita
9:30 AM
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Timebusters!For 9th–12th Grade Teachers Overwhelmed by grading? Learn tips for saving time when grading essays, quizzes, projects, and more. Also included in this workshop are rubrics galore and real life portfolio usage.
Kathy Gonzalez
9:30 AM
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