Examples of CWP Workshop Topics

CWP staff and Teacher-Consultants have expertise in a variety of areas. Below are examples of the types of workshops that CWP Teacher-Consultants can provide to school districts. Do you have a topic that you don't see in this list? Ask and we'll customize to meet your needs.

Writing as Process

"Rehearsing Techniques"

"Prewriting Theory and Practice"

"The Content Conference and the Teacher's Role"

"The Writing Conference: Coaching for Better Writing"

"Responding to Student Writing"

"Write to Publish"

"Publish Your Own Magazine"

Evaluation and Assessment

"Evaluation to Promote Learning"

"Performance-Based Assessment: Helping Our Students Become Independent Learners"

"Class-Generated Writing Criteria: Stepping Stones to Self-Evaluation"

"Portfolio Assessment: Empowering Students Through Evaluation"

Revision and Editing

"What We Say and What We Do: Enabling Content Revision"

"Peer Response Groups: A Bridge to Peer Revision"

"To Revise or to Edit That is Not the Question"

"Focus on Writing: Putting Grammar Instruction into Perspective"

Writing to Learn "Teaching Writing as a Way of Learning"

"Write to Learn: Using Writing Across the Curriculum"

"Writing as a Way of Knowing"

"Using Writing to Learn Content...Together"

"Provoking Your Students: Using Writing to Promote Personal Interaction History"

"Writing as Inquiry in Science"

The Reading/Writing Connection

"The Reading/Writing Connection: Using Literature as a Model for Writing"

"Reading Workshop"

"Integrating Language Arts Through Literature"

"Read to Write: The Poetry Connection"

"Reading/Writing: Making an Active Connection"

Reader Response

"Close Misreading: Student Response to Poetry as a Springboard to Dialogue"

"Encouraging Meaningful Responses to Literature"

"Literature in the Classroom: Reading, Writing, and Literary Response"

"Narrative Thinking"

"Editorials and the Development of Critical Thinking"

Writing and Technology

"Computers and Revision in the Writing Process"; "Working Networks"; "Reader Response Using Blogs"; "Packing a Punch with PowerPoint"; "Internet Tools to Extend Audiences"; "Computers and Writing: A Look Beyond Basic Word Processing"

Writing and the Arts

"Poetry Techniques for Writing Teachers"

"A Lesson in Poetry"

"Making Meaning: Connecting Art and Writing"

"Discovering Meaning Through the Music/Language Arts Connection"

"Readers' Theater: A Dynamic Way to Integrate the Curriculum"

"Playwriting-To-Learn"

"Taking the Mystery Out of Free Verse Poetry"

"Hitchcock in the Classroom Using Film to Generate Writing"

Exposition

"The Essay Connection"

"Dealing With the Abstract and Concrete in Composition"

"Structuring the Essay"

"Moving from Personal Response to Analysis"