I have a tradition that I started twenty years ago after my first year in the classroom.
On the last day of school, I hop in my car and roll the windows all the way down while Alice Cooper bellows – “SCHOOL’S OUT FOR SUMMER!!!!”
Year twenty was by far and away the craziest, but I made it through.
And you made it too!
I feel like I have earned the next eight weeks off, and man oh man, do I need this break.
But for some of us, there really isn’t a vacation from lesson planning and the endless chattering in our minds that only a secondary English teacher knows.
It is for the teachers I just described that I created my self-paced course. There is an easier-softer way to do things, and time-after-time I hear from those who have taken my courses … they all seem to say that life gets much more manageable once they learn a few new tricks.
And it does. There are countless ways to alternatively grade a heaping stack of papers and there are endless possibilities to yield growth and maturation in our student writers simply by equipping them with a few workable heuristics. Goodbye the headaches of bashing your head against the proverbial wall.
In a nutshell, here’s what you can expect from the self-paced course:
· 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 PowerPoint presentations that walk you through the use of the highly effective writing methods taught in the Masterclass 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
· A one-hour Q&A Zoom session should you have any inquiries
Please reach out if you’d like to schedule a discovery call or have any questions.
Here’s a link to my webpage: www.teachinghow2write.com
Happy teaching and happy writing!
Kristian
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