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A.1 | Talk: The Neglected Writing Tool (PK-5)
Sarah Valter, EdD
Room 202
Are your students stuck when they go to put pencil to paper? One of the most critical--and often neglected--elements of effective writing is the opportunity for oral rehearsal throughout the writing process. This session will focus on ways to integrate talk into a writing workshop to grow stronger writers. Participants will learn and practice talk strategies that can be implemented in the classroom tomorrow.
Dr. Sarah Valter serves as Literacy Coordinator for Lindbergh Schools in St. Louis, Missouri. She completed her doctorate in Teacher Leadership at Maryville University in 2018 and has earned National Board Certification in Early/Middle Literacy. Sarah has taught first, second and fourth, and fifth graders, as well as spending several years as a Mentor through the MU Teaching Fellowship Program. She has also served as an officer on her local and state ILA boards and was the co-recipient of the 2017 ILA Teacher as Researcher Award with work focused around the use of Novel Engineering to advance literacy instruction. Sarah is passionate about providing high quality literacy instruction that prepares students to become lifelong readers and writers.
Sarah Valter, EdD
Room 202
Are your students stuck when they go to put pencil to paper? One of the most critical--and often neglected--elements of effective writing is the opportunity for oral rehearsal throughout the writing process. This session will focus on ways to integrate talk into a writing workshop to grow stronger writers. Participants will learn and practice talk strategies that can be implemented in the classroom tomorrow.
Dr. Sarah Valter serves as Literacy Coordinator for Lindbergh Schools in St. Louis, Missouri. She completed her doctorate in Teacher Leadership at Maryville University in 2018 and has earned National Board Certification in Early/Middle Literacy. Sarah has taught first, second and fourth, and fifth graders, as well as spending several years as a Mentor through the MU Teaching Fellowship Program. She has also served as an officer on her local and state ILA boards and was the co-recipient of the 2017 ILA Teacher as Researcher Award with work focused around the use of Novel Engineering to advance literacy instruction. Sarah is passionate about providing high quality literacy instruction that prepares students to become lifelong readers and writers.
A.2 | Decoding Mentor Texts with Social Annotation (6 - 12+)
Fatemeh Mardi
Room 204
Looking for a way to get students to engage with mentor texts?
Fatemeh will give you a collection of teenage-created pandemic life reflections that can be used as mentor texts for personal pieces. In this session, participants will become familiar with Hypothesis and annotate the collection of multi-genre pieces using this guiding question: what makes them meaningful and engaging?.
Next, the participants will be exposed to three tips for making meaningful and engaging personal pieces. As the participants choose three personal reflections to focus on, they will match their chosen pieces with the tips and annotate how each piece served as a mentor text.
The workshop will end with participants reflecting on how this demo can be applied to their own teaching and learning contexts.
*To fully participate in this session, please bring a laptop or smartphone.
Fatemeh is an instructional designer at Missouri Online, University of Missouri System. She also teaches teacher preparation courses at UMSL. Fatemeh has been a Gateway Writing Project TC since 2014, and is a former sixth and fourth grade teacher.
Fatemeh Mardi
Room 204
Looking for a way to get students to engage with mentor texts?
Fatemeh will give you a collection of teenage-created pandemic life reflections that can be used as mentor texts for personal pieces. In this session, participants will become familiar with Hypothesis and annotate the collection of multi-genre pieces using this guiding question: what makes them meaningful and engaging?.
Next, the participants will be exposed to three tips for making meaningful and engaging personal pieces. As the participants choose three personal reflections to focus on, they will match their chosen pieces with the tips and annotate how each piece served as a mentor text.
The workshop will end with participants reflecting on how this demo can be applied to their own teaching and learning contexts.
*To fully participate in this session, please bring a laptop or smartphone.
Fatemeh is an instructional designer at Missouri Online, University of Missouri System. She also teaches teacher preparation courses at UMSL. Fatemeh has been a Gateway Writing Project TC since 2014, and is a former sixth and fourth grade teacher.
A.3 | Creative Alternatives to the Formal Research Paper (9-12+)
Bradford Nadziejko & Natasha Moore
Room 402
Tired of reading the same ole rehashed, repackaged and half-plagiarized research papers? In this workshop, Brad and Natasha will share a few activities and assignments they use in their college Composition classes to get you (and students) excited about research again. The workshop will include student samples, rubrics, assignment sequences, and a rich discussion on how we can rethink how we assess student learning outcomes in ELA and college composition classrooms.
During the day Brad Nadziejko teaches all levels of rhetoric and composition at Southwestern Illinois College, and at night he takes courses in the Ph.D in education program at UMSL.
Bradford Nadziejko & Natasha Moore
Room 402
Tired of reading the same ole rehashed, repackaged and half-plagiarized research papers? In this workshop, Brad and Natasha will share a few activities and assignments they use in their college Composition classes to get you (and students) excited about research again. The workshop will include student samples, rubrics, assignment sequences, and a rich discussion on how we can rethink how we assess student learning outcomes in ELA and college composition classrooms.
During the day Brad Nadziejko teaches all levels of rhetoric and composition at Southwestern Illinois College, and at night he takes courses in the Ph.D in education program at UMSL.
Apostolic. English Professor. Professed Nerd. Mom. Doctoral Student. Politically Incorrect and always unexpected.
Natasha Moore is a Professor of English at Southwestern Illinois College. She holds a M.Ed. in Adult Education and a M.A. in English Composition from the University of Missouri St. Louis. She is currently pursuing her doctorate in Education from UMSL as well. For the last 15 years, Natasha Moore has taught at all four of Southwestern Illinois College’s culturally different campuses. In doing so, she has become adept at creating new and innovative materials to address the needs and diverse interests of all her students.
A.4 | The Power of Storytelling (6-12)
Mindy Ridings
Room 403
This presentation incorporates the NPR radio program and podcast, The Moth. The format is personal storytelling. The Moth's goal is to further the impact personal storytelling has on student engagement and school community. Student storytelling can challenge dominant narratives about young people's lives, while developing new ways for students to listen to each other in classroom spaces. Students develop important skills from social-emotional capacities to critical speaking, listening, and narrative skills. Not only is this workshop intended to boost engagement, communication, and community, but also serves as a nice bridge into narrative writing or multi-genre projects.Participants will experience a mini Moth workshop, which means we will be living the storytelling process: warm-ups, brainstorming, drafting, revising and sharing stories. Want to know something really cool about this workshop? It is all done orally--every step of the process!
Mindy is currently an Instructional Guide in the Hazelwood School District, where she also helps out with an after school creative writing club. Mindy has taught ELA for 20 years at both the middle and high school levels. She has been a Gateway Writing Project TC since 2011, and recently facilitated a GWP book study group for Story Matters by Liz Prather.
Mindy Ridings
Room 403
This presentation incorporates the NPR radio program and podcast, The Moth. The format is personal storytelling. The Moth's goal is to further the impact personal storytelling has on student engagement and school community. Student storytelling can challenge dominant narratives about young people's lives, while developing new ways for students to listen to each other in classroom spaces. Students develop important skills from social-emotional capacities to critical speaking, listening, and narrative skills. Not only is this workshop intended to boost engagement, communication, and community, but also serves as a nice bridge into narrative writing or multi-genre projects.Participants will experience a mini Moth workshop, which means we will be living the storytelling process: warm-ups, brainstorming, drafting, revising and sharing stories. Want to know something really cool about this workshop? It is all done orally--every step of the process!
Mindy is currently an Instructional Guide in the Hazelwood School District, where she also helps out with an after school creative writing club. Mindy has taught ELA for 20 years at both the middle and high school levels. She has been a Gateway Writing Project TC since 2011, and recently facilitated a GWP book study group for Story Matters by Liz Prather.
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