Professional Learning Catalog 2024

Literacy Development

Building Expertise with Writing Workshop: Assessing and Conferring In this session participants will develop rubrics to assess student writing and inform instruction, engage in deliberate practice for conferring, and learn methods to deepen student writing through self-evaluation, peer feedback, and targeted revision. Participants will experience their own writing workshop with a focus on narrative writing. Learning outcomes: • Design, select, and use rubrics to assess student writing • Use writing assessment results to plan instruction

Recommended for: Grades 3–8 teachers Time: Three hours Item #s: In Person: 732827 Virtual: 743505 Participants: Up to 30

• Develop student writers through effective writing conferences • Teach students how to self- and peer-evaluate writing drafts • Incorporate student revision into writing workshops • Support student writing with multiple types of modeling

Recommended Reading

Radical Listening: Reading and Writing Conferences to Reach All Students by Dan Feigelson

Micro Mentor Texts: Using Short Passages from Great Books to Teach Writer’s Craft by Penny Kittle

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