Awaken the Learner (Essentials for Principals)

Benefits

- Find out how digital technology can facilitate grammar instruction, prewriting and brainstorming exercises, editing, revising, peer review, assessment, and collaborative writing.

- Equip yourself with and learn how to model strategies that help students brainstorm, plan, and organize their writing.

- Discover how the natural interplay between reading and writing can be used to strengthen both of these processes.

- Capitalize on the capability students have to move their writing through multiple storage locations and technologies from school computers and smartphones to laptops and tablets.

- Explore the need for students to know why they are writing and for whom.

- Develop your students understanding of voice, and teach them how to manage deadlines and other responsibilities of authorship.

- Examine the process of not just fixing mistakes, but also understanding the root issues that drive writing errors.

- Address the issue of assessing writing in ways that lead to positive growth in writing skill.