Early Registration deadline coming up! Meeting the Literacy Challenges of the Common Core (Grades 5-12) a Collins Writing Program Institute at SERESC
Meeting the Literacy Challenges of the Common Core
(Grades 5-12)
A Collins Writing Program Institute
With
Cheryl York McDonough
Wednesday, August 22, 2012
9:00 am – 3:00 pm
8:30 AM check in and continental breakfast
at
SERESC Conference Center
29 Commerce Drive
Bedford, NH 03110
(603) 206-6800
Overview:
This workshop gives teachers practical, sustainable strategies to help bring their students to the level of literacy demanded by the Common Core State Standards using the Collins Writing Program’s Five Types of Writing to increase students’ understanding and retention of course content and increase student involvement and motivation to learn.
Outcomes:
PARTICIPANTS WILL LEARN HOW TO…
· Improve student comprehension of informational text
· Use meaningful, substantive writing to enhance the teaching and assessment of content in all subjects
· Establish clear, focused criteria for assessing all types of writing, including those we expect to find on the Common Core test
· Employ the power of frequent formative assessment and “effortful retrieval”
· Balance essential genres of writing–opinion, informative, and narrative
· Help students develop general academic vocabulary stressed by the Common Core-the words needed for success in all disciplines
· Employ self-editing and peer-editing strategies to make students less dependent on teachers
· Utilize easy-to-use resources for helping students communicate in the formal style of language required in the Language Strand of the Common Core
· Design authentic writing assignments that promote learning and motivate students
· Adapt writing demands to challenge all students, including special needs
· Implement a portfolio that helps manage the paper load and encourages student reflection
· Use the Collins Writing Program as a school-wide initiative for improving students’ cross-curricular literacy
PARTICIPANTS WILL LEAVE WITH …
· Four assignments you can immediately use in your class tomorrow that will help prepare your students for the new Core test
· A list of key general academic vocabulary words the students will be expected to know
· A strategy to develop reasons to support arguments on any topic
· Efficient research-based ways to evaluate student papers
· A guide to essential conventions, rules and reminders for the most frequently used writing conventions
· And much, much more
Who should attend?
For teachers in grades 5 and above, department heads, principals, supervisors, curriculum committee members, school-based management teams, school improvement teams and special educators.
About the Presenter:
Cheryl York McDonough is a writing consultant for Collins Education Associates and also serves as the Executive Director of School/Student Affairs of the Great Bay eLearning Charter School in Exeter, New Hampshire. She has been an English teacher, a humanities chair and a curriculum director. She is also an attorney, licensed to practice law in New Hampshire and Massachusetts. A New Hampshire native, she graduated from Keene State College with a degree in English and completed work on both a principal’s and a superintendent’s certificate through Rivier College in Nashua, New Hampshire. She completed her Juris Doctorate Degree at Massachusetts School of Law in Andover, Massachusetts where she was one of three editors of the law review. Ms. McDonough served as the Chair of the Kensington New Hampshire School Board and the SAU 16 (Exeter Area) Joint Board. Ms. McDonough has been included several times in Who’s Who Among America’s Educators and has recently been notified of inclusion in the Who’s Who of American Women. She has lived in Kensington, New Hampshire since 1988.
Schedule
8:30 am Check in/Continental breakfast
9:00 am Morning session begins
11:30 pm Lunch
12:30 pm Afternoon session begins
3:00 pm Evaluations, Certificates, Adjourn
Cost: $165.00
Early Registration Cost: $135.00
if registration and payment are received by 8/6/2012
Cost includes: continental breakfast, lunch, certificate of attendance with
5 professional development contact hours
Cancellation/Refund Policy
· Cancellation should be made in writing. A full refund will be made for cancellations postmarked, or sent via email, 7 days before the event.
· No refunds will be given for requests received after 7 days before the event, or for “no shows”.
· Yes! We do accept substitution of another person at our conferences. 24 hour advanced notification is appreciated.
· All received registrations, whether by Purchase Order, Online Registration, Fax or Mail, are subject to Cancellation/Refund Policy. Cost of registration fee is still liable whether payment is paid or unpaid, if no notice of cancellation is received at least 7 days prior to the event.
If minimum enrollment is not met before early registration deadline, seminar may be cancelled or postponed
NHCSS 
Posted on August 9, 2012
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