The Summer Writing Institute is offered each summer at the University of New Orleans. Teachers must apply and interview for the Institute. Twenty teachers are selected on the basis of their success as teachers who use writing, regardless of discipline, in the classroom, and for their promise as equally successful teachers of other teachers. Institute participants come from all grade levels, across the curriculum, and from public, private, and parochial schools.
The Summer Institute runs for five weeks, all day, four days a week. It requires extensive reading, writing, and preparation. Participants receive six hours of graduate credit. A stipend is offered and teacher tuition exemption is available.
The Institute is both academic and experimental. It creates a rare opportunity: teachers come together as a community of writers, freed from the demands of teaching, to write and share. Teachers work in "reading and response" groups where they write, respond to others' writings, revise, and publish their own work. This experience is central to the development of a teacher. Extensive readings pertaining to writing and learning are assigned and discussed. Guest speakers and teacher consultants often lead sessions.
Each teacher develops a teaching in-service demonstration regarding the successful teaching of writing and presents it to his/her peers in the Summer Institute. Teachers from the Institute become Teacher Consultants in the Writing Project.
Click Here connect to a downloadable early application or Click Here to register online for our 2008 Invitational Summer Institute to be held from June 3 – July 3 2008.
Summer Institute Transforms Teaching!
Feedback from Fellows
GNOWP inspired me to long to go home and write every day. It unleashed an overwhelming current of ideas I yearned to capture on paper. That had never happened to me before. But most importantly, I was invigorated with hope after meeting so many dynamic teachers.
This summer I was reminded of how much writing means to me, and for that I'll be forever grateful.
The greatest honor that I can bestow upon a course is that it changed me. This course did exactly that. I shall never approach writing and teaching the way that I used to.
The Greater New Orleans Writing Project was a wonderful experience. I feel enthusiastic and motivated with so many new ideas for teaching. I can't wait to start the next school year!
For further information about the Greater New Orleans Writing Project, contact
Ken Rayes, Director
Greater New Orleans Writing Project
Department of English
University of New Orleans
New Orleans, LA 70148
Phone: (504) 280-7323
E-Mail:
krayes@uno.edu