Shared Demonstration Lessons of Best-Practice
A Collection by Top of the Mitt Writing Project
North Central Michigan College
This collection of excellent teaching demonstrations represents a main pillar of our rigorous Invitational Teacher Leadership Institutes. Whether in our classic, five-week Summer Institute Model, or in our new Year-Long Institute Model, exceptional educators come together to share and refine their practices in the teaching of writing and the results shared here are striking.
Teacher participants are always treated to multiple demonstration models of exemplary instructional practices all of which were inspired by the selection of stellar mentor texts. This collection includes invitations for engaging students in writing from early elementary through high school senior year.
In a time when the complexity of teaching is being undervalued by many voices outside education, we are inspired to share the stellar work of many of our Teacher Consultants as they completed our many National Writing Project institutes with distinction. Each lesson is shared here in detail to honor the complexity and intentionality of that work. We took time in these lessons to pay careful attention to the intricacies of thoughtful, purposeful planning and the many challenges we all face when we strive to engage each learner and inspire every young writer.
Here we offer multiple demonstrations that brought us to laughter and sometimes tears—all with brilliantly effective ways to pass along to our students a love of writing, reading, and a deep appreciation for the power of language. We offer these lessons to our teaching colleagues to revise or adapt for use in their own classroom communities. We hope our contemporaries will be encouraged to share their own joy of writing and language with their students. We have made our practice public to honor the difficulties, challenges, and remarkable rewards of a life in public school teaching.
A Collection by Top of the Mitt Writing Project
North Central Michigan College
This collection of excellent teaching demonstrations represents a main pillar of our rigorous Invitational Teacher Leadership Institutes. Whether in our classic, five-week Summer Institute Model, or in our new Year-Long Institute Model, exceptional educators come together to share and refine their practices in the teaching of writing and the results shared here are striking.
Teacher participants are always treated to multiple demonstration models of exemplary instructional practices all of which were inspired by the selection of stellar mentor texts. This collection includes invitations for engaging students in writing from early elementary through high school senior year.
In a time when the complexity of teaching is being undervalued by many voices outside education, we are inspired to share the stellar work of many of our Teacher Consultants as they completed our many National Writing Project institutes with distinction. Each lesson is shared here in detail to honor the complexity and intentionality of that work. We took time in these lessons to pay careful attention to the intricacies of thoughtful, purposeful planning and the many challenges we all face when we strive to engage each learner and inspire every young writer.
Here we offer multiple demonstrations that brought us to laughter and sometimes tears—all with brilliantly effective ways to pass along to our students a love of writing, reading, and a deep appreciation for the power of language. We offer these lessons to our teaching colleagues to revise or adapt for use in their own classroom communities. We hope our contemporaries will be encouraged to share their own joy of writing and language with their students. We have made our practice public to honor the difficulties, challenges, and remarkable rewards of a life in public school teaching.