NWP@Rutgers Open Institute

July 12-16, 2010
New Brunswick, NJ
9:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. (Monday- Thursday), 9:00-12:00p.m. (Friday)
Cost: $350

The National Writing Project at Rutgers Open Institute is a five-day professional development experience designed to move teachers through a process of self-awareness as a writer into self-awareness as a teacher of writing. Critical to this process is reflection on one’s own experience as a writer. Participants will write, frequently! Teachers from all disciplines and grade levels are welcome to participate. The experience is enriched when teachers across grades and subject areas write together and share their writing. 

The Open Institute will assist you to:

• Write in a variety of genres
• Share your writing in small and large groups
• Provide and receive constructive feedback
• Make decisions about revision
• Reflect on your own writing
• Apply your self-reflection to your teaching
• Develop effective strategies for sharing your writing process with your students
• Develop effective strategies for teaching writing

Participants must attend all five days. 
Attendees will receive 25 professional development hours.
Attendance is limited to 20 participants.  
Special Offer for our Inservice Partner Districts: One teacher attends free with first paid registration. 
Partner Districts: Chatham, Hillsborough, Long Hill Township, Newark  Public Schools, North Brunswick,
Pascack Valley Regional High School District, Passaic City, and West Milford

Questions? Contact Maggie Devine, Co-Director of External Relations, at outreach@nwprutgers.org.

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