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Professional Development
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- Scope of Training.
The UCLA Writing Project tailors workshops to the needs of your school. A series might start with basic writing project strategies and processes. It might focus on certain genres--narrative, persuasive, expository, response to literature, letter writing, poetry--and continue from there.
- Philosophy.
We believe that teachers are the best teachers of other teachers. All workshops are hands-on and all teacher participants write. Teachers who write are the best teachers of writing.
- Sub-topics.
Included in each session might be tips and lessons on revising, conferencing, editing, publishing. We also connect to reading as we feel reading and writing go hand in hand.
- Length of Professional Development. Click here for Suggested Scenarios.)
We recommend 10 two-hour sessions. These can be after school or during banked time. Other possibilities are one-week institutes, Saturday sessions, workshops during school hours with the school paying for the substitute time, buy-back days. Workshops can be once a week or once a month. With time in between sessions, teachers have an opportunity to try out the lessons or strategies and return with student work.
- Fee Schedule.
All the California Subject Matter Projects housed in Center X charge the same amount--$300.00 an hour per session. We prefer working with manageable groups of 20 to 30.
- Follow-up.
Follow-up is essential. We prefer not to contract for one-time professional development. We think a multi-year plan is more effective than professional development for one year only. We can follow a series with more sessions, or with grade-level coaching, class-room observations, or demo lessons.
- Sites.
We can do the workshops at UCLA or at a school site.
Click here for Suggested Scenarios, Workshop
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