JONESBORO — The Arkansas Delta Writing Project at Arkansas State University is accepting applications for its 2012 Summer Writing Institute for Teachers, which will be held in ASU’s department of teacher education June 7-29.
Inquiry, writing and teachers thinking together - that’s what occurs in National Writing Project summer institutes.
The project hopes to recruit up to 15 educators to participate in the institute.
There is an application and interview process that guides the selection of the institute’s fellows. Interviews will be held once in April.
Final selections will be made by May 1.
Selected participants will receive a fellowship that provides graduate credit toward several College of Education master’s degree programs.
They will also belong to the national network of more than 200 National Writing Project sites on college campuses in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
The National Writing Project is the most significant coordinated effort to improve writing in America.
Through its professional development model, NWP develops the leadership, programs and research needed for teachers to help students become successful writers and learners.
This year’s summer institute is being funded by aVerizon Literacy grant.
More than 35 northeast Arkansas educators from kindergarten to college, in all content areas, have participated in the ADWP Summer Institute since the site became part of the NWP network in 2009.
Central to the writing institute are teacher participants’ inquiries about writing instruction and corresponding demonstration lessons based in their expertise and classroom experiences.
Participants will also inquire into innovations with technology integration into classroom practice, facilitated by technology experts from the Arkansas Delta Writing Project and ASU.
Fellows experience writing on a personal level, following the National Writing Project model that “teachers of writing also write.”
National research studies confirm significant gains in writing performance among students whose teachers participate in NWP programs.
The director of the Arkansas Delta Writing Project at ASU is Dixie Keyes, associate professor of education.
For more information, visit the Arkansas Delta Writing Project online at www.astate.edu/cpi/adwp/, or contact Dixie Keyes at dkeyes@astate.edu.
Three Rivers, Pages 131 on 03/25/2012