LIWP Saturday Series
October 21st Workshop
Persuasion or Provocation? Helping Our Students to Read, Write, Speak & Listen Thoughtfully in Difficult Times
Our goal as teachers must be to help our students learn to communicate with clarity and reason; however, too often this is not what is being modeled outside of our classrooms. Instead, opinion is presented as facts; facts are labeled as "fake." We talk about the people with whom we disagree far more than we talk to them or with them. More and more often, if communication does occur, screaming at each other is the prevalent form among people who disagree, often with a police barrier separating us.
Using a current issue, this workshop will help us to identify material, methods, and strategies that can help our students form and share opinions, and value the opinions of others, through research, discussion, writing, speaking, and perhaps most important of all, listening. We hope you will join us for this important conversation.
LIWP Saturday Series: Persuasion or Provocation?
Saturday, Oct 21, 2017, 09:30 AM
Nassau Community College, Education Drive, Garden City, NY, United States
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The Long Island Writing Project
The LIWP comprises teachers from kindergarten through university. Our seminar leaders are outstanding educators from different grade levels and disciplines in local schools, and we have a strong, ongoing partnership with Hofstra University's Department of Literacy Studies. LIWP teacher-consultants keep up with research and changes in education and their work is grounded in practical classroom approaches. Through our model of teachers teaching teachers, participants in the LIWP strengthen the classroom strategies they already find effective in teaching writing and develop new ones.
One of the most important foundational beliefs of our Project is that teachers improve their knowledge of teaching writing by writing themselves. Another is that the best way to improve our own teaching is through sharing what works with other effective teachers. We welcome your inquiries, and look forward to writing, learning and teaching with you.
The Long Island Writing Project at SUNY Nassau Community College is an approved Sponsor of Continuing Teacher and Leader Education (CTLE) pursuant to Section 80-6 of the Regulations of the Commissioner of Education, New York State Education Department (NYSED).
Email: Darshna.Katwala@ncc.edu
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Location: Nassau Community College, Education Drive, Garden City, NY, United States
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