The Social Studies Open Institute is meeting at the University of Notre Dame in order to study Content-Area Writing. Twelve teachers have gathered to improve their practice as teachers of writing and thinking. The format looks like this:
Day 1
Social Studies Open Institute, June 14-18, 2010
Sponsored by the Hoosier Writing Project
I. Introduction-Mary Nicolini
A. Welcome
B. Housekeeping
C. History of the National Writing Project
D. Core Beliefs
1. Teachers should write.
2. Teachers are the best teachers of other teachers
E. The Hoosier Writing Project
II. Focus Questions-Katie Solic
A. How do social scientists (us) use reading and writing?
B. How do we get students to read and write like social scientists?
C. Goals:
1. Inventory Current Practices
2. Find interdisciplinary connections
3. Understand concepts of content literacy
4. Build a library of strategies to use and share
III. Read Aloud-Katie Solic
A. “Martin’s Big Words” by Doreen Rappaport, E185.97.K5 R36 2001
B. Why use read-alouds? (brief unpacking)
1. Introduce topics
2. Model what reading sounds like
3. Introduce vocabulary
IV. 5x8 Interview-Mary Nicolini
A. Lesson Plan is in Handout document
V. Lunch-50 minutes
VI. Writing to Learn vs. Writing to Show Learning-Kevin McNulty
A. Content-Area Writing-Daniels, Zemelman, Steineke
VII. Google Apps-Kevin McNulty
A. Google Group-HWP-WAC
B. Write Around-Google Documents
C. Unpacking the Google
VIII. Literacy Autobiography-Mary Nicolini
IX. Sharing
