Strengthening Students' Writing Skills While Decreasing Grading Time (Grades 3-6)

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Looking to transform your students' writing skills while reducing your workload? If you're spending more time grading papers than your students spent writing them, or struggling to fit all the required skills into your lesson plans, Kathryn Starke's seminar is here to help! As an acclaimed national presenter and experienced elementary teacher, Kathryn will show you how to drastically reduce your grading time and implement effective feedback strategies. Plus, discover new and innovative daily techniques to take your students' writing to the next level. Designed for Grades 3-6, this seminar covers everything from peer feedback to student conferences, ensuring that every student receives the feedback they need to succeed. Don't miss this opportunity to revolutionize your writing instruction with practical, doable strategies that work for all levels of writers!

Kathryn will share dozens of new and innovative ways to reduce your workload while increasing your students' writing skills. From your struggling students to your more advanced writers, these tools work! Join Kathryn for a day filled with dozens of practical and doable strategies to strengthen your writing instruction and see powerful results!

As a teacher, author and publisher, writing is a large part of my daily life. I have always loved teaching writing. Unfortunately, it is the first part of the language arts block to be cut from the day. In addition, teaching writing is often perceived as a daunting task. That's exactly why we created this seminar for teachers in Grades 3-6.

After almost two decades of teaching writing as a classroom teacher, reading specialist, and literacy consultant, I want every teacher to feel confident and competent in teaching writing. This not only includes simple ways to plan and implement engaging and effective daily writing lessons, but also time-saving tips on assigning and grading student writing. Research shows that students become great readers when daily writing experiences take place in the classroom.

My hope is that you will return to your classroom with a wealth of practical strategies, tips, and tools for teaching, assigning, and assessing writing that will immediately improve both your students' writing and reading success.

I look forward to meeting you at the seminar. The day will be packed with exciting new practices, strategies and perspectives that will enable you to teach and assess writing in creative new time-saving ways.

P.S. You will also receive an extensive digital resource handbook filled with practical, proven strategies, and time-saving tools you can use immediately.

Educators Serving Grades 3-6: English/Language Arts Teachers, Classroom Teachers, Literacy Coaches, Special Education Staff and Administrators

Extensive Digital Resource Handbook Each participant 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 enhancing their students' writing skills program.

Consultation Available Kathryn Starke 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, ready-to-use strategies and techniques for planning, assigning and evaluating student writing that maximize student success
• Specific, step-by-step methods to ensure a greater amount of quality writing in multiple genres while decreasing your assessment time
• Fitting it all in … How to teach your numerous ELA requirements, achieve high-quality writing results from all your students and reduce your take-home workload
• New and innovative strategies to dramatically reduce time spent grading while giving meaningful, specific feedback