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Summer Institute
An overview of the KMWP Summer Institute
Project Menu
Project Files
Jan 08 KSU Newsletter: SEE ARTICLE ON THE KMWP 2007 SUMMER INSTITUTE, Page 5
2010 Summer Institute Packet: Information about the Summer Institute for candidates 2010
2010 S.I. Application: Application form for Summer Institute candidates 2010
Project Links
KSU English Newsletter: See 2007 Summer Institute article
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Summer Institute Fellows working
A core program of every local writing project site is the summer institute, a four- to five-week long institute where exemplary teachers from all disciplines and grade levels come together to demonstrate and examine their classroom practice, study the latest research about about teaching writing, and develop their own writing skills. As a result of these activities, teachers are better prepared for their own classrooms and for teaching other teachers.

Come to the Summer Institute and:
 
  • Build your confidence as a writer and educator by becoming a writer and a student. For 3 ½ weeks in the summer, an institute fellow is reminded of what it was like to sit in a classroom staring at a blank piece of paper. You will grow as an educator by feeling yourself on the other side of the desk!
  • Join an active organization that provides many free opportunities for truly professional development.
  • Learn to think about literacy in productive new ways that carry across all grade levels and subject areas, kindergarten through university.
  • Share your best teaching practices with colleagues from a variety of demographic settings.
  • Become a part of a community where you feel empowered to teach students through quality writing techniques.
  • Learn to teach with enhanced understanding of local, state, and national standards for assessing writing.
  • Establish a network of professional contacts throughout the metro Atlanta area.
  • Develop ideas for using writing in multi-disciplinary ways.
  • Gain technology skills.
Come be one of our 2009 Summer Institute fellows.  Download the application located in the menu on the right.


 
Kennesaw Mountain Writing Project
Building 27, Box 2701 | Kennesaw State University | 1000 Chastain Road Kennesaw, Georgia 30144-5591
Phone: (678) 797-2170 | Fax: (770) 499-4203