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  • About Us/Home
    • Become a Member
    • Contact
    • Sign up for our Newsletter
    • Calendar of Events
    • About WMPLC
    • Our Team
  • Professional Development
    • Workshops / Conferences >
      • Holding Space (January 2020)
      • MANDT Training (Jan. 2020)
    • Online Courses >
      • Contemporary Issues: Dyslexia (Spring 2020)
      • Current Events in Indian Country (Spring 2020)
      • Exploring SENG (Spring 2020)
      • IEFA: Literature K-8 (Spring 2020)
      • IEFA Special Topics Course 1: (2019-2020)
      • IEFA Sovereignty (Spring 2020)
      • Language Study for Teachers (Spring 2020)
      • Learning from Finland (Spring 2020)
      • Maximizing Mentor Texts (Spring 2020)
      • Nurturing Individual Potential (Spring 2020)
      • Rural School Leadership (2019-2020)
      • The First Days (Spring 2020)
      • Writing Improvement (Spring 2020)
      • VESi Online Courses
    • Past Courses/Workshops >
      • 2019-2020 Closed Courses >
        • Short is good: Using Short Text; Dec. 2, 2019
        • Nonfiction in today's Common Core Era: Nov. 25, 2019
        • MANDT Training Nov. 2019
        • Current Events in Indian Country: Fall 2019
        • Language Study for Teachers; Fall 2019
        • Learning from Finland; Fall 2019
        • Contemporary Issues: Helping Students Dyslexia, Dysgraphia, and other Disorders; Fall 2019
        • Maximizing Mentor Texts; Fall 2019
        • Writing Improvement (Fall 2019)
        • Exploring SENG (Fall 2019)
        • The First Days (Fall 2019)
        • Love and Logic; October 2019
        • Trauma Experience and Support Workshop October 5, 2019
        • Mindfulness Connection, October 2019
        • IEFA Sovereignty; Spring/Summer 2019
        • Contemporary Issues: Helping Students Dyslexia, Dysgraphia, and other Disorders: Spring/Summer 2019
        • August Institute 2019 >
          • August Institute Hotel Blocks 2019
          • August Institute Missoula College Floor Plan maps
        • Working With Diverse Learners Who Find Reading and Writing Challenging: Spring/Summer 2019
        • IEFA: American Indian Literature 5.13.19
      • 2018-2019 Closed Courses >
        • August Institute 2018 >
          • August Institute Hotel Blocks 2018
          • August Institute Gifted and Talented workshops
          • August Institute Education workshops
          • August Institute IEFA workshops
          • August Institute Missoula College Floor Plan maps
        • IEFA Essential Understandings: 4.1.19
        • Make the Most of the Final Weeks of School: Active Learning With a Twist for All Subjects/Grades: April 30, 2019
        • Mindful by Nature, April 2019
        • Maximizing Mentor Texts; Jan. 2019
        • Ramping-up K-6 Reading and Writing for End-of-year Results: April 29, 2019
        • EPAS Teacher Evaluation: April 2019
        • MANDT Training: March 2019
        • Tricks to Turn Even Struggling Spellers-Writers: March 22, 2019
        • Anticipating the ACT: March 1, 2019
        • Writing Like a Reader: March 8, 2019
        • MT AGATE Conference, 2019
        • IEFA: History of the Flathead Reservation 1.14.19
        • IEFA: The Boarding School Era, January 2019
        • Webinars: Danielson Framework for Effective Teaching in Practice
        • The Danielson Framework in Action; Jan. 2019
        • Make Your Classroom an Active Literacy Laboratory/Classroom: March 29, 2019
        • Writing Workshops, Nov. 2018
        • MANDT Training November 2018
        • IEFA: The Dance House Online Book Club, October 2018
        • IEFA: American Indian Literature K-8 Online Book Club, October 2018
        • TEAMS work sessions with OPI 2018
        • Reading and Writing Workshops, Nov. 2018
        • Up a Notch 4 Gifted Kids, October 2018
        • Love and Logic; October 2018
        • Introduction to Restorative Practices and Using Circles Effectively, October 2018
      • 2017-2018 Closed Courses >
        • 2018 Montana AP® Summer Institute
        • IEFA: American Indian Literature 4.2.18
        • IEFA: History of the Flathead Reservation 4.9.18
        • Learn to Identify Young G&T Students Workshop 3.17.18
        • Google Tools for Teachers 3.21.18
        • The Danielson Framework in Action
        • Re-Invigorating the Second-R Writing Workshop 2.23.18
        • Giftedness in Younger Grades Workshop 2.6.18
        • IEFA: Montana Tribal Histories 1.8.18
        • IEFA: American Indian Literature 1.22.18
        • Stacy York Training for Early Childhood 1.17.18
        • Native American Literature
        • Integrating IEFA into Content Area Curriculum
        • Re-Invigorating the Second-R Writing Workshop 12.15.17
        • Mindful Educator's Workshop November 2017
        • MANDT Training October 2017
        • TEAMS work sessions with OPI 2017
        • Conscious Classroom Management
        • August Institute 2017
      • 2016-2017 Closed Courses >
        • Advanced Placement Courses
        • IEFA: History of the Flathead Reservation
        • EPAS June workshop
        • G&T STEAMmaker Camp
        • Mindful by Nature Workshop; April 2017
        • Love and Logic; April 2017
        • Hacking Leadership (May)
        • IEFA: Montana Tribal Histories
        • McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act Under ESSA presentations
        • Mindfulness/Holding Space Workshop
        • IEFA: The Boarding School Era
        • MANDT Training March 2017
        • MANDT Training January 2017
        • Teaching Gifted Kids in Today’s Classroom
        • Improving Classroom Instruction with MT EPAS
    • Request Workshops/Consulting >
      • Reading and Writing Workshops
      • EPAS
      • Crisis Prevention Institute (CPI)
      • MANDT
      • Standards Based Grading
      • Gifted and Talented
      • Prevention of Bullying/Suicide
  • Discounts for MT Schools
    • Book Creator
    • Medicaid Billing Services >
      • Montana Medical Billing
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Maximizing Mentor Texts: Teaching Writing in a Connected Way
​(Spring 2020)
This 8 week, self-paced, online Moodle course is intended for classroom teachers and/or graduate students who are interested in studying writing in school contexts. In particular, the focus is on analytic writing, which has traditionally been overlooked in favor of narrative writing forms. Major course objectives are to help class participants become more confident with teaching analytical writing and writing analytically themselves in the content disciplines they teach.

Course description:  This two-credit graduate-level course explores how mentor texts can be used to jump-start analytical writing: writing to inform and explain, writing arguments, and writing to evaluate (Common Core Anchor Standards 1 through 3.) We will study forms of written discourse and identify genre characteristics of expository writing. Students will analyze writing assignments for developing student-writers and then adapt these to more complex, layered writing exercises. Participants will learn about analytical writing from a teacher’s perspective as well as from direct experiences with composing pieces that inform and explain, that take a position and propose a solution, and that evaluate and form judgments based on evidence. 

Event Number: 18551025
EDU 455/C&I 555 
Instructors: Daisy Carlsmith/Ann Ellsworth
Dates: This is a self-paced course. As such, course participants must be comfortable working independently and self-motivated to complete all work within the flexible time frame. Participants may register for the course now.  No new registrations will be accepted after April 15, 2020. Participants must complete the course by June 1, 2020. 

Upon receipt of course payment by WMPLC, the instructor will enter the student into the course Moodle and send an introductory email, at which time the participant may begin the class. The instructor will then collect the UM credit paperwork and payment, which will be sent to the University of Montana on June 1, 2020, along with final grades. 

Registration fee:  $250
Credit: 30 OPI Renewal Units or *2 Semester Credits pending (semester credits are offered through the University of Montana and are an additional fee of $155. The course instructor will provide a separate registration form). The total cost savings is 40% by going through WMPLC to get university continuing education credits.

This course requires the participant to access a couple of texts through their school or public library or purchase said materials from booksellers such as Amazon.  The instructor may be available to assist with locating copies, if
needed.
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​Learning outcomes:
Participants will be able to
1. Describe the elements of effective written communication.
2. Contrast analytic writing forms from narrative structures.
3. Analyze written pieces (students’ own compositions and those from mentor texts) for words/phrases that reflect genre requirements.
4. Identify mentor texts that match to aspects of effective writing (namely: word choice, organization, and sentence structure)
5. Define RAFT and within that writing framework, identify various formats, purposes, and intended audiences
6. Examine grade-level writing standards and design appropriate age-level analytical writing assignments.
7. Compare journal articles that discuss best instructional practices for advancing student writers.

Required texts:
Write Like This
Author: Kelly Gallagher
Stenhouse Publishers, 2013

Beyond the 5-Paragraph Essay: How to Write Analytical Essays
Authors: Kimberly Campbell and Kristi Latimer
Stenhouse Publishers, 2012

Other online sources, including journal articles from writing scholars

Recommended text:
The Classroom Teacher’s Guide to Struggling Writers
Authors: Curt Dudley-Marling and Patricia Paugh
Heinemann, 2009

​About the course facilitator:  
Ann Ellsworth has taught in elementary and secondary schools in Wisconsin and Montana, and has led reading and writing professional development workshops across  Montana and the Midwest. She is the 2019 National Council of Teachers of English's (NCTE) "Grammar Teacher of the Year."   The  Association of Teachers of English Grammar (ATEG)  is an arm of NCTE. She was awarded the 2016 Montana Reading Teacher of the Year, and was a finalist for two national teaching awards. Presently she works with teacher candidates at Montana State University-Bozeman She has served as editor of the MONTANA STATE READING JOURNAL and is working with a publisher  on a book on how to improve student writing.
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Register at:  https://forms.gle/PGyyin3meTGQVXoc6

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