Congratulations to the Class of 2019 Fellows
Summer 2020
Tuition and Fees
3 Graduate Credits from West Chester University
For current tuition rate & information about Employer Reimbursement, please visit
the Bursar website.
Please register at least two weeks before the class begins.
If you are not enrolled in a Master's Degree program at West Chester University, learn how to enroll as a nondegree student.
Dates: June 29 - August 1, 2020
Times: Mondays and Wednesdays from 1pm - 5pm
Location: Taught virtually; flexible engagement
Instructor: Dr. Jason Vanfosson
Description:
This course provides hands-on technology instruction, including digital video production, web-based technology, and podcasting. These technologies will focus on current and future teachers of English or anyone interested in using technology in an educational setting.
Dates: June 29 - August 1, 2020
Times: Tuesdays and Thursdays from 8am - 12noon
Location: Taught virtually; flexible engagement
Instructors: Dr. Pauline Schmidt
Description:
Using The Six Traits of Writing Framework, participants will learn fresh, practical strategies for teaching writing. They will explore their own writing style, and share strategies for writing instruction with peers. In this course participants will experience community building, pre-writing techniques, drafting, revising, editing, and publishing activities, and will also work with a response group to polish writing and to take on the role of teacher as writer.
Dates: June 29 - August 1, 2020
Times: Tuesdays and Thursdays from 1pm - 5pm
Location: Taught virtually; flexible engagement
Instructors: Dr. Emily Aguilo-Perez
Description:
The course facilitators share their love of middle grade and young adult literature and passion for writing in a relaxed, highly motivating setting. Learn how to connect story elements and literary devices to specific activities, use scaffolds to develop students' writing, and create strategic mini-lessons that link rich literature to the teaching of writing. Expand your knowledge of mentor texts for models of exemplary writing and reader-response activities designed for various purposes, audiences, and genres.
Invitational Writing Institute
The Pennsylvania Writing and Literature Project offers an Invitational Institute in the Teaching of Writing. Participants earn six graduate credits from West Chester University.
Experienced teachers come together to demonstrate and examine their classroom practices, study the latest research about teaching, and develop their own teaching skills. As a result of these activities, teachers are better prepared for their own classrooms and for teaching other teachers.
This teachers-teaching-teachers model is the heart of the Project philosophy.
Teachers who successfully complete an Institute are eligible to teach in PAWLP's summer Youth Programs, present in courses, and provide professional development for local school districts.
An application form, endorsement from a PAWLP Fellow or school district administrator, and interview are required. Applications are considered on a rolling admission basis. For more information or an application please call the PAWLP office at 610-436-2598 or
Pauline Schmidtor
Cyndy Pilla2020 Institute Dates. Total of 14 dates. 6 graduate credits
Spring: Saturdays, May 16 and 30, June 6 from 8 a.m.-1 p.m.
Summer: Monday - Friday, July 6 to 10, 13 to 17 from 8 a.m.-4 p.m.
Fall: September 19, from 10 a.m.-2 p.m.
Location
West Chester University
Main Hall, Room 200
West Chester, PA
Final application deadline is April 15, 2020.
Master's Degree
Did you know that the Institutes and many of PAWLP's courses apply to the innovative Master of Arts degree in Writing, Teaching, and Criticism?
Developed with Language Arts and Secondary English teachers in mind, this flexible, year-round, professionally oriented program allows students to explore three areas of study in English - rhetoric and composition, pedagogy, and literary studies. The 36 hour program brings together theory and classroom practices in writing and rhetoric, secondary English teaching, and the interpretation of literature and other cultural discourses. The program welcomes students with an interest in exploring the way language, teaching and literature intersect.
The program:
- Strengthens critical reading, writing, and research skills
- Places special emphasis on the implications and applications for teaching
- Offers specialized study in issues of cultural and classroom diversity
- Enhances knowledge of literature and culture
- Focuses on how writing, literary studies, and teaching intersect
In addition to the required Teacher as Writer course taught by PAWLP Director Pauline Schmidt, up to four other PWP courses may apply to the twelve-course requirement of the degree.
To enroll, contact the Graduate School at 610-436-2943.
