You teach writing to the point of exhaustion. You grade piles of essays, adding meticulous and thoughtful feedback time and again, but nevertheless, your students continue to spin their wheels and you remain at a loss as to why they are still not progressing as writers.
And, there is a reason for that...
According to a recent article published by the JAAL, 91% of secondary ELA teachers attest to having never been taught how to teach writing in their practicums.
It comes back to the old adage – how are we to know what we don’t know?
Unfortunately, for many teachers there are not sufficient opportunities to have other professionals and writing experts review, critique and offer feedback on the strategies being used to teach writing in the classroom. Feedback that enables us as teachers to do it better and in a way that lessens the burnout for ourselves and our students. We more or less have to figure it out on our own in a blind display of shooting in the dark.
But there is a better way - there’s a way to change the entire paradigm of how you offer writing instruction that is more effective, engaging AND relieves the burnout and time suck of grading essays! Not to mention elevating your student’s writing while making the process more fun!
In this live two-hour professional development intensive, you will learn how to equip your students with three groundbreaking templates that will demystify the writing process for both you and your students.
Taking the “Bob Ross” approach to teaching composition, you will learn how to reframe your instruction so that your students have explicit and solid scaffolds to approach their writing. Further, you will learn the theory and technique inherent in cogent composition that will foster true and meaningful growth in your student writers.
One thing that truly impedes us from being our best selves every day in the classroom is the sheer volume of grading we have to do. In this workshop, I will also show you 40 groundbreaking alternative methods to traditional grading to help you reclaim more free time and relieve grading burnout.
Here's what is included in my Teach It Write program:
A live, two-hour professional development intensive hosted on Zoom that will fully orient you to my groundbreaking templates, heuristics, and alternative grading methods
The Teach It Write Classroom Learning & Support Module which includes ten instructional video lessons that will demonstrate for you how to implement the three templates of the syllogistic method as well as the declarative and inverted thesis into your classroom practices
Detailed instruction on how to build your student writers from the ground up while equipping them with the necessary tools of grammar, punctuation, and syntax in order to cultivate rhythm, flow, and voice
Detailed instruction with plenty of exemplars and models on how to apply the templates to each of the expository modes (literary analysis, rhetorical analysis, synthesis, argument, persuasion, research)
In-depth instruction teaching you my “Bob Ross” approach to implementing my unique and effective templates of the syllogistic method as well as the declarative and inverted thesis
1-Year access to a growing library of 150+ video writing workshops (similar to the Free Fundamental Writing Workshops) that will take you step-by-step through the process of implementing the three methods I am going to teach you using the relevant literature and/or expository mode you are teaching to
Access to over 150 professional PowerPoint presentations that walk you through how to use my highly effective writing methods that can be customized and used as a powerful guide and teaching tool in the classroom
Access to 40 alternative grading methods that will alleviate the burdens and demands of grading essays and enable your students to grow and mature as writers
Test prep writing workshops for both AP Literature and AP Language dating back to 2015 to the present
A complementary copy of my textbook Teaching Teachers How To Teach Writing to serve as a further point of reference
If you would like to learn more, feel free to reach out to me or visit my webpage at http://teachinghow2write.com/teach-it-write/
Happy teaching and happy writing!
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