Helping Your Unmotivated and Underperforming WRITERS Succeed (Grades 6-12)
In this NEW idea-packed seminar, you will discover a multitude of practical ways to help your unmotivated and underachieving writing students experience greater success and catch up in their learning. You will gain specific methods for increasing your students' initiative to revise their work, explore helpful guidelines that offer more structure for reluctant writers, and realistic ways to make the connection between your students' social, emotional well-being and the vulnerability required…
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In this NEW idea-packed seminar, you will discover a multitude of practical ways to help your unmotivated and underachieving writing students experience greater success and catch up in their learning. You will gain specific methods for increasing your students' initiative to revise their work, explore helpful guidelines that offer more structure for reluctant writers, and realistic ways to make the connection between your students' social, emotional well-being and the vulnerability required to risk putting their ideas into writing.
Rebecca Gault, outstanding ELA teacher and writing expert, will demonstrate what she has found to be most successful with unmotivated and underachieving students in grades 6-12. She will share student routines and lessons designed to increase student interest, relevance, and contagious positive energy. Leave this seminar with the keys to unlock student motivation and performance and watch your underperforming students finally take off with their writing!
Join Rebecca for a day filled with dozens of practical and doable strategies you can use immediately in your classroom!
ELA practitioners love the writing process and have a clear understanding that most of their students want to experience success. In my career as a secondary teacher, I have learned which aspects of the writing process cause students to feel anxiety, and I have also learned what makes them feel more successful; moreover, I have experimented with an abundance of strategies that help students boost their confidence, ignite their creativity, and celebrate their voice when writing. Whether unmotivated or underperforming students struggle as a result of their past experiences or are frustrated because of recent gaps resulting from our nation's challenges, they cope with these feelings in various ways—and it shows in their final products. For some, the cursor on the computer screen simply taunts them.
In this seminar, my key objective is to provide you with an immense amount of practical and engaging resources that can help your unmotivated and underperforming students experience more success in their writing and finally get caught up. They will learn from these techniques that writing is not just pragmatic – it's personal. We understand the mindset of knowing their imagination leads to exploration, and exploration allows for innovation. All students can find success in writing if we can get them to think of it as more than just a task. Joseph Heller once said, "Every writer I know has trouble writing." If we can accept that idea, we can push our students to understand what Victor Hugo meant when he said, "A writer is a world trapped in a person."
Please join me for a day of strategies that will not only help boost your underachieving students' attitudes and outlook on writing but will also set them up for more successful outcomes. I can't wait to share all my classroom-tested ideas with you at this strategy-packed seminar!
P.S. If you are looking for practical ideas to help your unmotivated and underperforming writers reach their greatest potential, this seminar is for you!
Educators Serving Grades 6-12: English/Language Arts Teachers, Classroom Teachers, Title I Staff, Special Education Staff, and Administrators
Extensive Digital Resource Handbook You will receive an extensive digital resource handbook giving you access to countless strategies. The handbook includes:
For in-person seminars, registrants will also receive a printed copy of the resource handbook as long as their registration is received in the BER office at least 15 calendar days before the event.
Share Ideas This seminar provides a wonderful opportunity for participants to share ideas with other educators interested in helping their grades 6-12 underperforming writers succeed.
Consultation Available Rebecca Gault will be available for consultation regarding your questions and the unique needs of your own program.
Semester Credit Option Up to four graduate level professional development credits are available with an additional fee and completion of follow-up practicum activities. Details for direct enrollment with University of Massachusetts Global, a nonprofit affiliate, will be available at this program.
Meet Inservice Requirements Participants of both the Live Online Seminar and those completing the Recorded Version online can receive a certificate of participation that may be used to verify five continuing education hours. State CEUs are available for both versions of the course. For specific details, visit www.ber.org/ceus.
What you'll learn
- Practical strategies to decrease disengaged behavior and help your underperforming writers become more productive and successful
- Dozens of ideas designed to help your underachieving writers develop a growth mindset and a more positive attitude about writing
- Increase your students' internal motivation and personal accountability, generating greater student interest in the writing process
- Help your underperforming students achieve higher productivity and catch up on their writing skills
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