Writing is Thinking (WIT) involves explicit instruction in expository writing skills to develop students' written and oral language, content knowledge and reading comprehension simultaneously. WIT is especially powerful for English learners because it also teaches how the English language works.
This online workshop focuses on the foundational sentence-level strategies that form that heart of the WIT approach and that support students to meet the demands of the Next Generation Science standards, specifically their ability to grasp and clearly communicate complex scientific relationships and processes.
This is a hands-on experiential workshop. It is not intended to turn science teachers into writing teachers, but rather to develop science teachers' expertise using WIT to meet their content and assessment goals. This workshop is for science teachers of English learners in grades 3-12, including bi-lingual and co-teaching pairs. Participants are expected to attend all four sessions.
Participants MUST be enrolled by Tuesday, May 10, 2022.
To access this workshop, a Zoom link for each session will be shared with registered participants to their email addresses used to enroll in Frontline (MLP), in the afternoon the day before each session.
Cost: Free
For questions regarding this activity, please contact the HV RBERN.