English Language Arts

The North Carolina Department of Public Instruction (NCDPI), in collaboration with the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE), will offer writing professional development sessions this summer, with on-line follow-up throughout the year through NCTE Pathways to Adolescent Literacy initiative. During the workshop, teachers will learn strategies for following what they know to be best practices in teaching writing while still helping students prepare for writing tests. These strategies, designed to address specific features of writing on demand, can be incorporated into an existing curriculum. They adhere to the principle that test preparation and good writing instruction are not incompatible. After the workshop, teachers will further their learning with colleagues and workshop presenters through on-line professional development in Pathways.

Workshop Topics
• Read backward from a piece of finished writing to the prompt that produced it
• Learn how processes of writing are adaptable to the testing environment
• Use rhetorical analysis to understand prompts and assignments
• Make assessment-including rubrics from writing tests-visible in the composition classroom
• Deal effectively with time constraints when writing
• Foster sentence-level attention to writing

Registration: $350.00 per person, non-refundable
(includes breakfasts, lunches, breaks, book, materials, and one-year subscription to NCTE Pathways)

Registration Deadline: July 6, 2007
Confirmation will be sent by email and should be kept for admission to the session.

Send registration and make checks payable to: NCDPI
Cash Management Section
6336 Mail Service Center
Raleigh, NC 27601

No purchase orders will be accepted and we are unable to “hold” seats for participants without completed registration form and payment.

Questions about this session? Contact: Teresa Parker, NCDPI, (919) 807-3837
tparker@dpi.state.nc.us

Hotel Reservations: Contact the Crowne Plaza Charlotte by 704-372-7550 by June 29, 2007
Contact the Holiday Inn Crabtree Valley 919-782-8600 by July 6, 2007
Be sure to ask for the Middle and High School Writing Institute: Writing on Demand room block (state rate of $59.75 +tax)

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