For 30 years, we have been a site of The National Writing Project, an organization for teachers federally funded from the US Department of Education. Our mission is to improve the teaching of writing through “teachers teaching teachers,” thus improving learning in our schools.

On this site you will find information about us and our successful programs, links to information, online application forms for our 2008 Invitational Summer Institute, and testimonials from our teacher consultants.

 

The Benefits of the GNOWP Summer Institute

By Cathy Tanguis

GNOWP Teacher - Consultant

 

Serving as a facilitator for the Greater New Orleans Writing Project during the summer of 2007, I had the opportunity to continue my support of the site and extend my experience with the Greater New Orleans Writing Project. This has proven to be equally rewarding and enlightening. It has been gratifying to support the dedicated teachers who participated in the Summer Institute, many of whom were still displaced as a result of the hurricane. In spite of the challenges they faced on a daily basis, their dreams for their schools and students remained resolute. GNOWP's Summer Institute encouraged them to continue to improve their practices and supported their efforts to do so in myriad ways.  Most rewarding was the sense of community that evolved over the course of the institute. Many of the teachers had lost their support systems as they transferred from school to school in the wake of the hurricane.  The institute offered a solution to this isolation as the fellows interacted and worked with one another over the course of the summer. Bonds were formed and relationships flourished as a result of discovering shared values and experiences.

- Cathy Tanguis

 

Please click here for the brochure and to register online click here

“I Just Don’t Know What to Do!”:Writing for the
Classroom beyond Katrina.

A Writing Workshop for Teachers to Develop Effective Writing Pedagogy, Assignments and Assessments Using Best Practices and Relevant Writing Information.

Friday, August 8, 2008, 9am – 3:30pm, and
Saturday, August 9, 2008, 9am -12:30pm
Lindy Boggs Conference Center – Lakefront Campus, UNO

This workshop / seminar will offer teachers information and approaches to designing effective writing tasks that can also address state assessments, and will assist teachers who are searching for more effective tasks to address changes in adolescents’ behavior and learning after Katrina. We will develop writing assignments creatively designed to meet present conditions of teaching adolescents post-Katrina, and tasks which address teachers’ needs, including addressing State of Louisiana assessments. We will also develop assessments and pedagogy which complement our newly created writing tasks with relevant information about best practices in the teaching of writing.

“This is a writing workshop for teachers who want new approaches for teaching writing and helping students gain new skills in writing. Our workshop will use the problems teachers are presently having in teaching writing and assigning writing tasks post-Katrina. We will seek to address these problems with new ‘teachniques’ for approaching the classroom.”

Our workshop will also address the issues of our 3rd year after Katrina, and analyze concerns about writing that may be related to adolescent writing literacy. We will give teachers contemporary information about the best practices of writing for your classroom. Each teacher will also leave with new lesson plans, teaching techniques and assessments for meeting the 2008-2009 school year.

For more info, e-mail  krayes@uno.edu , or call: 504-280-7323.  Register online Click Here