Inside Writing Workshop - Every Child a Reader and Writer

The Noyce Foundation is proud to announce the launch of an exciting new website featuring key strategies and teaching practices in writing workshop classrooms. The site highlights the work of elementary teachers and students as they participate in a narrative writing study. The study places particular emphasis on teaching students to identify the significance of their narratives, and to intentionally craft their narratives to emphasize that significance. This material is a must for all elementary teachers who wish to help their students to write narratives that are truly engaging to the reader!

Based on work in the Noyce Foundation's Every Child a Reader and Writer initiative, videos of four teachers and professional development sessions for these teachers are featured on the site. The videos are accompanied by teacher reflections on their teaching moves and the students' responses, as well as examples of student work, and various curriculum resources used in the teaching. Key strategies can be viewed as first presented by the professional developer leading the seminars, and then as presented by the four teachers working with their students in elementary classrooms. Multiple views of a given strategy make it easier for the viewing teacher to 'unpack' or deconstruct the strategy and adapt it for use in the context of their own classroom.

The website was created through a collaborative effort of The Noyce Foundation and the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. The Noyce Foundation has sponsored the ECRW initiative since 2000, and participating districts are currently preparing to take on full responsibility for the program within their own districts. The website is one of a number of tools that have been developed to assist districts in carrying the work forward. The Carnegie Foundation has led an effort to capture the dynamics of teachers' practice through the use of new technologies since 1998. Using Carnegie's expertise in technology and the work of the ECRW teachers, the two organizations have collaborated to create this website which makes professional development more accessible.

"Teachers are hungry for different educators' approaches to the teaching of writing," says Noyce Foundation Executive Director Ron Ottinger. "This website allows teachers, literacy coaches, principals and curriculum directors far beyond the ECRW implementation sites access to online multimedia professional learning opportunities. Educators at all levels who want to teach writing effectively can see the practices of the writing workshop."

"This online teaching tool is extremely significant in that it expands from watching a particular teacher to examining effective practices across grade levels and in multiple settings," says Ann Lieberman, Carnegie senior scholar and co-director of the Goldman-Carnegie Quest Program that advances similar work. "Contrary to professional development models predicated on 'best practices', this project rests on the assertion that there can be multiple ways to translate strong ideas about literacy teaching."

The foundations' joint efforts are part of the burgeoning move to reframe professional development, moving teacher learning and teacher knowledge from margin to center in the advancement of the profession.

http://www.insidewritingworkshop.org


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