Pennsylvania Writing and Literature Project

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.

 

PWP 508: Digital Literacies

Face-to-Face Dates:  July 6-10, 2020

Times: 8:00am-4:00pm

Location: Main Hall, WCU

Instructors: Jason Vanfosson and Daniel Provence

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.

 

PWP 503: Strategies for Teaching Writing

Face-to-Face Dates:  July 13-17, 2020

Times: 8:00am-4:00pm

Location: Main Hall, WCU

Instructors: Rita DiCarne and Greg Maigur

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.

 

PWP 521: Finding Writing Mentors: Grades 6-12

Face-to-Face Dates:  July 20-24, 2020

Times: 8:00am-4:00pm

Location: Main Hall, WCU

Instructors: Jason Vanfosson and Amy Ahart

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. 

 

 PWP 599: (Special Topics) Graphic Memoir Workshop

Face-to-Face Dates:  August 5-7 and 12-14, 2020

Times: 8:00am-4:00pm

Location: Brandywine River Museum

Instructors: Liz Mathews and Brian Kelley

Description: 

Fusing text with hand-drawn pictures can expose ideas we otherwise would not have discovered. In this graphic memoir workshop, explore how we might encourage students to go deeper as writers by drawing and writing yourself: We’ll learn how to say something original as a writer by immersing ourselves in multi-modal exercises that evoke generative processes of thinking and enliven traditional methods of prewriting and revision.

 

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 Schmidt

or

Cyndy Pilla

2020 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.

2020 Writing Institute Application  

Writing Institute Flyer

NWP Immersion article

Master's Degree Flyer

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.