Write in the Middle: A Workshop for Middle School Teachers
Teaching Multigenre Writing (#105)
Multigenre writing offers students a wide range of options for expressing ideas and communicating knowledge. In this program, participants examine two different, but equally successful, examples of this eclectic and engaging writing approach. [58 minutes]
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- Professional Development
- Curricular Areas
- Literacy & Languages
- Professional Development
- Series Length
- 8 episodes
- Average Episode Length
- 58 minutes
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Series Description: This professional development series is designed to help teachers learn effective practices and strategies to use with middle school students in writing instruction. Through classroom footage of excellent teachers modeling successful strategies and interviews with teachers, students, and nationally recognized experts about the writing process, teachers will learn ways to create a positive and productive environment for young writers.
All Episodes
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Creating A Community of Writers (#101)
In this session, participants explore practical strategies that allow adolescents to share their writing in an atmosphere of trust and safety and to recognize their identities as lifelong writers and readers. [58 minutes]
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Making Writing Meaningful (#102)
When teachers introduce subjects that matter to middle school students or allow them more freedom to choose and develop topics, the task of writing gains new meaning and purpose. In this session, viewers examine how five teachers help their students connect to writing and understand its capacity to transform their lives. [58 minutes]
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Teaching Poetry (#103)
Poetry offers adolescents an unparalleled opportunity to explore feelings and learn about the power of written expression. This program showcases two master teachers as they help their students develop as writers and readers of poetry. [58 minutes]
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Teaching Persuasive Writing (#104)
In this program, viewers visit two middle-level classrooms to see how teachers can help young writers develop effective and authentic persuasive pieces based on their own experiences and interests--for example, using cell phones in schools or altering their homework schedule. [58 minutes]
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Teaching Multigenre Writing (#105)
Multigenre writing offers students a wide range of options for expressing ideas and communicating knowledge. In this program, participants examine two different, but equally successful, examples of this eclectic and engaging writing approach. [58 minutes]
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Responding to Writing: Teacher to Student (#106)
In this program, participants see how five middle-level teachers use both formal and informal student/teacher conferences to monitor their students' progress and help them improve as writers. [58 minutes]
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Responding to Writing: Peer to Peer (#107)
Throughout the writing process, peer response can help adolescents develop as thinkers and writers. In this program, viewers explore strategies for structuring peer interactions and for teaching students to respond positively and productively to each other's work. [58 minutes]
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Teaching The Power of Revision (#108)
In this program, viewers visit the classrooms of three teachers to examine strategies that help even reluctant writers see the power and purpose of revision. [58 minutes]