To date, NVWP has trained over 400 kindergarten through university Teacher Consultants to teach teachers better ways to teach and use writing in the classroom. The project provides several programs and workshops for its teachers, for its members, and for the community. This methods course includes the latest strategies for teaching writing with an opportunity for participants to develop their own writing skills. Participants in the seminar read research, conduct studies in their classrooms, and write reports of their findings. This course includes the latest theories of composition instruction and enables participants to develop their own theory of writing instruction.
Participants study and make personal connection with education theory.
Individual schools and school systems interested in a presentations related to the use of writing and writing instruction should please contact Administrative Assistant, Mark Farrington at the NVWP office. NVWP Student Summer Institute and the November and February Young Writers' conferences provide opportunities for students, grades 5 to 12, to come together as a writing community. Activities include writing, small group sharing workshops and visits from guest authors. As Institute graduates, NVWP Teacher Consultants provide in service programs, workshops, and credit courses on the teaching of writing to the professional staffs of participating school divisions. Schools, school districts, colleges, and universities seeking to improve writing instruction through in service workshops and conferences can arrange for NVWP to design and coordinate special training programs for their faculties.