CSMP

Program: Institute at Humboldt: Invitational Summer Institute 2009

The collaborative design of the Summer Institute allows teachers to develop strategies that will fit their teaching styles and meet the needs of their students.  During the Summer Institute, participants will read and discuss research on the teaching of writing and how it may be applied to subjects across the curriculum; explore the ways in which state- and district-mandated curricula can be successfully integrated into a dynamic learning environment; work in response groups and share writing; explore relationships among writing, thinking, and learning; investigate a teaching practice and develop a demonstration workshop; and develop professional leadership roles as practitioners, researchers, writers, and inservice providers.  Therefore, teachers accepted to the Invitational Summer Institute commit to ongoing professional development opportunities, and RWP TCs act as peer coaches, study group leaders, classroom mentors, and inservice coordinators.