June 15-19 2009
Schedule overview
OhioWINS Registration now at waitlisted status
Registration for OhioWINS@OSU is now at a waitlist status. All seats have been filled; however, we will still accept applications. Waitlisted participants will be notified one week before the program start date if seats open up.
Intended for teachers in grades 6-12, the Institute runs from June 15-19, 2009. The first twenty-five teachers registering will be named OhioWINS Institute Fellows and receive full tuition and fees waiver and have all materials and parking costs covered. Participants receive 5 hours of graduate credit in English (English 692W). Registration is limited to forty participants.
Registration forms will be available beginning March 2, 2009, and may be accessed here.
Guest Lecturer Announced: Brian Huot
Brian Huot will be leading two days of workshops for this year’s OhioWINS Summer Institute. Huot’s workshops will address issues of classroom assessment and reading and responding to student writing.
Brian Huot has been a full time college writing teacher and writing program administrator for almost thirty years. He has taught and developed teaching writing courses for college, high school and middle school teachers since the early 1990s. He has served as a consultant for the NCTE consulting network, the National Faculty and the National Assessment of Educational Progress as well as for many college-level institutions and organizations. His scholarship focuses on the teaching and assessing of student writing. Currently Huot is professor of English and coordinator of the writing program at Kent State University.
Summer Institute Description
OhioWINS@OSU will give fellows the opportunity to participate in four mini-workshops, scaffolded to assist them in developing or refining writing intensive units that integrate informal and formal writing and formative and summative assessment. (The final day of the week will showcase teachers’ working curricular projects.) This year's workshops include
- Catching Up: Current Research on Reading and Writing, K-12
- Informal and Formal Writing: From Jot Notes to Essays
- Classroom Assessment: Reflective Practice and Theory in Practice
- Reading and Responding to Student Writing
Texts under consideration
Alsup, Janet and Jonathan Bush. 'But Will It Work with Real Students?' Scenarios for Teaching Secondary English Language Arts. NCTE, 2003.
Christenbury, Leila, Anne Ruggles Gere, and Kelly Sassi. Writing on Demand: Best Practices and Strategies for Success. Heinemann, 2005.
Elliot, Janet L. Using the Writer's Notebook in Grades 3-8: A Teacher's Guide. NCTE, 2008.
Gardner, Traci. Designing Writing Assignments. NCTE, 2008.
IRA/NCTE Joint Task Force on Assessment. Standards for the Assessment of Reading and Writing. NCTE, 1999.
Schedule
The OhioWINS Institute schedule will be available soon. Daily sessions will run from 8 am to 12 pm and 1 to 5 pm (M-F) with a short morning break and lunch break. Daily activities include short writing and reading assignments, internet research, online discussions, collaborative inquiries, group discussions, focus groups, and innovative lesson planning.
Photo Permission Form
Please download the photo permission form and fill it out and send it back to us so we can use all the wonderful pictures we took from the institute!
Statewide OhioWINS website now online
The OhioWINS Institutes website is now online! To learn more about OhioWINS and the nine other sites statewide, visit http://www.ohiorc.org/ohiowins/
Images courtesy of:
Tostie14, Lost in Scotland, Hummanna, Jennie Woo, Trazomfreak