The Hoosier Writing Project Summer Institute

At I.U.P.U.I. in Indianapolis, June 2-25, 2010 

At the University of Notre Dame, will return June 2011

The National Writing Project is a university-based teacher-centered program. Each year, at all NWP sites, successful teachers of writing from all levels of instruction, elementary school through university, are identified and invited to participate in intensive five-week Summer Institutes. These Institutes have four important purposes:

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• to provide teachers with a setting in which they can explore their own teaching practices;

• to help teachers broaden and make more conscious the grounds of their teaching through an examination of writing theory and research;

• to give teachers of writing an opportunity to commit themselves intensely and reflectively to the process of writing as members of a community of writers and as reviewers of each others' written pieces in small response groups;

• and, finally, to identify and prepare a corps of writing teachers (NWP Teacher Consultants) who can effectively teach successful approaches and processes of teaching writing to other teachers.

After the Institute, these teachers join with other NWP Teacher Consultants who have participated in previous institutes to plan and conduct year-long staff development workshops on the teaching of writing in project-sponsored programs in the schools.

Nominations for Attending the Summer Institute

Nominating a peer or yourself is easy. If you know of someone who

• is an active classroom teacher, kindergarten through university

• has potential for impact on other teachers

• has writing ability or potential, and

• would enjoy participating in the ITWWP Summer Institute

...or you fit that bill yourself, please download and complete the nomination form. Review of nominations will begin in mid-February 2010 and continue until the Institute is full. Eligible nominees will be asked to submit an application portfolio and participate in a personal interview for the four-week summer institute. Thanks to funding from the NWP, there is no charge to participants, and some portion of the graduate tuition will be paid. Summer fellows can receive up to six hours of graduate credit.

 

Over one million teachers and administrators have been trained in NWP programs since 1974. At present, the NWP has over 200 sites in all 50 states. Indiana is home to six sites: the Indiana Writing Project at Ball State University; the Hoosier Writing Project at IUPUI and at Notre Dame; the Northwest Indiana Writing Project at Purdue University Calumet; the IUS Writing Project at Indiana University Southeast; the Appleseed Writing Project at Indiana University Purdue University Fort Wayne; and our newest site at the University of Southern Indiana in Evansville.