PUBLIC WORKSHOPS
Each year we conduct scores of
writing workshops for teachers, supervisors, and administrators.
Workshops are held throughout the United States in convenient
locations, such as hotels, and are open to educators from the
surrounding school districts.
We take great pride in ensuring that
all of our workshops are both informative and
entertaining. Our associates (presenters) are chosen because of their
extensive knowledge of K-12 education, their outstanding teaching
ability, and their expertise in the field of writing. They also have
superb presentation and communication skills and believe
wholeheartedly in the lifelong benefits to students that result from
using the Collins Writing ProgramSM.
WORKSHOPS OFFERED
Improving Student Performance with
the
Collins Writing Program
This workshop presents a proven
model for developing writing and
thinking skills across the curriculum and demonstrates key
aspects of the Collins Writing Program.
It shows
teachers how to use the
Five Types of
WritingSM assignments to
improve student writing and thinking skills and to increase
content understanding and retention. But most important, this
workshop gives teachers the help they need to efficiently and
fairly evaluate writing so that students become more skillful
as a result of the process.
Audience: Grade 4-12 teachers in all subject areas,
including special education, supervisors, department heads, and
administrators.
View
a Fall 2009 Brochure
Four
Essential Writing Assignments to
Improve
Student Achievement
An innovative, new writing
workshop for educators that's sure to impact student achievement in
grades 5 to 12. In this fun, activity filled workshop you'll
learn how to plan, teach and assess four key assignments in
Dr. John
Collins' new flagship book,
Improving Student Performance Through
Writing & Thinking Across the Curriculum.
Four
Essential Writing Assignments is an all new, full-day writing workshop for
educators in any subject area. This workshop is
valuable to all teachers whether they use the
Collins Writing
Program or not.
In this fun, activity filled session, you’ll learn how to plan, teach and
assess four key assignments that significantly impact student achievement.
This practical, hands-on workshop builds upon the extensive research from Marzano, Graham and Perin, and others.
Thinking and Writing Across the
Curriculum for the Elementary Grades
This workshop provides
elementary teachers in grades 1 to 5 with practical
strategies and techniques to help their students gain
writing fluency, become comfortable thinking on paper, and
to develop the essential writing skills they need for future
academic success in any subject area. The strategies
introduced also help prepare students for standardized
assessment tests.
Seven Sentence Building Activities
to Develop Advanced Writers
When correcting
students’ writing, do you find yourself seeing fragments,
run-ons, sentences that are awkward, make no sense, or have
no life, as well as sentences that violate the most basic
grammatical rules? If so, you should attend this Sentence
Building workshop. It will allow you to address these
problems in a way kids love, and it will allow you to move
on to more sophisticated writing issues.
For Teachers in grades 2 through 9 in all
subject areas, Curriculum Coordinators, Principals,
Supervisors, Curriculum Committee Members, School-Based
Management Team Members and Special Educators.
SATISFACTION RATINGS
Between
1986 and 2010, we conducted
almost 900 open-to-the-public workshops that were attended by 27,659 participants
from 29 states. In these workshops, we ask the question,
“Compared to other workshops you have attended, how would you rate
this workshop?” We use a 1 to 10 evaluation scale, with 1
designated “not effective at all”; 5, “an average experience”; and 10,
“one of the best I’ve attended". Our evaluations have averaged
higher than a 9.2 over the past 23 years.
FAQ
- Time: Full-day workshops are conducted from
9:00 AM to 3:00 PM with registration, coffee, and pastry from 8:30 AM
to 9:00 AM. Our schedule is posted well in advance of the workshop
dates. Fall
workshops begin in October and spring sessions are generally in
early April.
- Registration Fee: A full day workshop
typically costs $175 per person and includes all workshop
materials and refreshment breaks.
- Confirmation: Registrations received one week before the
workshop date will be confirmed by mail. Confirmation includes the
workshop date and location.
- Cancellation Policy: The entire tuition fee is fully
refundable up to three business days prior to the workshop.
- No-risk Guarantee: If for any reason you are not
happy with a workshop, we will gladly refund your participant fee.
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