33days until # CAWP 2010 Spring Conference - April 17, 2010 Featured Speaker Carol Jago, NCTE President
About
About Us
The
Chicago Area Writing Project (CAWP) is an organization of, by, and for
teachers of all grade levels dedicated to improving the instruction of
writing and the use of reading and writing in the content areas. One
of over 200 sites of the National Writing Project, CAWP sponsors a
variety of programs on the University of Illinois at Chicago campus as well as in Chicago area schools.
School-site and District-wide Programs
School-Site Programs
After School and Weekend Programs for Teachers
School-site professional development programs available on the following topics:
Writing (K-12)
Reading Strategies (gr. 3-8)
Reading and Writing in the Content Areas (gr. 4-12)
Emergent Literacy (K-2)
and others
For Schools and Districts
CAWP offers a number of 15- and 30-hour inservice programs that can be held afterschool onsite for individual and clusters of schools, and district-wide designed to meet the needs and concerns of the teacher participants.
Classes generally meet weekly over a period of time (usually 5- or 10-week periods) and are led by CAWP Teacher Consultants who are themselves outstanding K-12 classroom teachers who have been trained in intensive CAWP Summer Institutes.
We have received an increasing number of requests by schools for CAWP Teacher Consultants to provide onsite support for classroom teachers in which they model s0me of the teaching strategies introduced in our professional development workshops. If your school is interested in designing a special onsite PD component, please contact CAWP Director Barbara Kato at 312-355-4495 or bkato@uic.edu.
