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School of Health and Natural Sciences is proud to announce a workshop entitled:
WRITING:
THE PERFECT ACADEMIC STORM
Speaker:
Wendy Salisbury, B.A., M.A.
Course Description: This presentation is designed to provide participants with an understanding of the multiple challenges students face during the writing process as well as remedial strategies and scaffolds that help students to compose and revise more easily and effectively. Elements to support composition progressing from the sentence through the multi-‐paragraph level will be explored. Strategies to help students generate and organize ideas prior to writing will be instructed.
In addition to a focus on composition, this presentation will focus on instruction in the editing and revision process. Rubrics, checklists and use of structured planning for larger writing projects will be demonstrated. Finally, samples of student writing will be examined to help participants learn how to identify appropriate remedial levels.
This course is offered for 0.6 ASHA CEUS (Intermediate level, Professional area)
Friday, March 10, 2017 Mercy College 9:00 am-‐ 4:15 pm 555 Broadway (continental breakfast 8:30 am) Main Hall – Lecture Hall
Dobbs Ferry, NY 10522 Wendy Salisbury, B.A., M.A..
Wendy Salisbury is currently the Director of Education at Eagle Hill School in Greenwich, CT. She has worked at the school for 40 years, having been a teacher and Educational Advisor prior to assuming the role of Director of Education. Wendy received a Bachelor’s Degree in Early Childhood and Elementary education from Wheelock College in Boston, Massachusetts and a Master’s Degree in Special Education from the College of New Rochelle. While at Eagle Hill, Wendy has had an opportunity to study and observe how students gain language skills, and she has spoken at many national conferences about the development of reading comprehension and writing skills, including several Learning Disabilities Association International Conferences (LDA), the National Council of Teachers’ of English, the Educational Records Bureau, the Illinois Learning Disabilities Conference, and at graduate seminars at Teacher’s College. She is a member of the program committee for the LDA Conference, heading the instruction strand of the committee.
Financial disclosure: Wendy Salisbury is the Director of Education at Eagle Hill School, in Greenwich, CT. She will receive and honorarium for this presentation. Non-‐ Financial disclosure: None Learner Outcomes
Participants will:
• be provided with an overview of the writing process and where the process can ‘fall apart’ given different learning profiles • become familiar with elements of syntax, and which syntactic forms are more difficult to create and comprehend • become familiar with scripts and frames that will help students write more effective and varied sentences • be provided with information about the importance of categorization in helping students organize and develop ideas for composition • be provided with strategies to help students increase their written vocabulary • become familiar with scripts that will help students organize information for single and/or multi-‐paragraph compositions • become familiar with the use of rubrics to help students improve their ability to edit compositions more independently. • become familiar with techniques that help analyze student writing to ‘pinpoint’ where remedial instruction must begin • be provided with selected programs and websites that help support the writing process. Audience: Speech/Language Pathologists, Special Ed and General Ed teachers, Psychologists, and parents.
Agenda:
9:00-10:30 • Introduction: An overview of the writing process with a particular focus on the inter-relationship of skills required to write successfully and difficulties that students encounter if they have needs in even one of these areas (motor control, attention, memory, language function, self-regulation/executive function)
• Look at syntax: This portion of the presentation will include lecture, discussion, and hands-on activities designed to help participants develop an understanding of syntactic structures, how to help students create sentences of increasing complexity, and how to ‘match’ student language competency to the level of syntactic complexity that should be instructed
• Questions on this section
10:30-10:45 Break
10:45-12:15• Focus on beginning composition: Strategies to help children generate ideas for composition. These will include: ‘free’ brainstorming/organizing, guided questions, scripts, categorization instruction and activities.
• Focus on composition at the paragraph level: In this section, instruction and practice will be provided in creating topic sentences Use of graphic organizers to help organize information at this basic level will also be demonstrated and practiced.
• Questions on this section
12:15-1:00 Lunch (on your own, cafeteria available)
1:00-2:30• Continued focus on composition at a multi-paragraph level: Participants will continue to look at composition, beginning with basic expository composition structures. Scripts and strategies to support idea “generation” at a more complex level will be shared. Instruction and practice will also be provided in creation of composition introductions (including thesis statement) and conclusions will be provided. Introduction to various text structures, their unique organization,
• Focus on advanced categorizing to create more ‘focused’ compositions and thesis statements organizers that can help support each type, and specific vocabulary used in each will also be instructed and practiced.
• Questions on this section
2:30-2:45 Break
2:45-4:00• Focus on more complex compositions: The use of Sara Ward’s Get Ready-Do-Done process will be demonstrated so that participants can utilize this to help students plan for larger projects such as research papers
• Focus on editing and revision: Participants will learn how to support students through the editing and revision process. Strategies instructed will include: use of checklists, rubrics, and guided peer editing.
• Focus on analyzing student work: Participants will receive instruction and practice in analyzing student work to determine appropriate instructional and remedial plans
• Questions on this section
Registration Information
Includes: Registration, Handouts and Breakfast Please check one:
o $175 Workshop Fee o $ 80 Student Fee o $150 Mercy Alumni o I cannot attend but would like to a
make donation to the Mercy College Scholarship Fund: $___________
Cancellation Policy:
There will be no workshop fee reimbursement: however, if written notification is received up to two weeks prior to the conference date, Mercy College will offer admission to another workshop of your choice.
A cancellation may be due to inclement weather and every effort will be made to reschedule this workshop.
We reserve the right to substitute speakers due to circumstances beyond our control. We will make every effort to secure a speaker in the specified area, however, this may not always be possible because of the expertise required and the short notice available.
The goal of the Mercy College Scholarship Fund is to provide financial support to strong graduate students who are need-‐based. This fund makes their tuition to be more affordable. Please support our commitment to the Communication Disorders Graduate Program and the speech-‐language pathologists of the future.
Message from Program Director, Helen Buhler, Ph.D.
2016-‐2017 Scholarship Recipients
Registration Deadline: March 3, 2017
Please complete the following registration form and include your check or credit card payment.
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