Syllabus

Course developer and facilitator:

Bud Hunt

Preferred contact methods:
email: bud at budtheteacher dot com
twitter: @budtheteacher.

Skype and IM by request.

We will also be having several synchronous web sessions, schedule to be announced.

Course Resources

Common Core Writing Standards - Annotatable

NWP's Digital Is

Bud's Blog Posts About the Course

More to Come.

Live Sessions: Each week of the course, on Tuesday evenings, Mountain time, at 7:30PM, we'll gather together to talk through the week and be joined by guests and friends of our topics and tasks. Each of these sessions will be recorded for later viewing. The first live session will be Tuesday, October 11th.

Here's a link to our Webinar space.

October 11th Live Session - ARCHIVE NOTES
October 18th Live Session - ARCHIVE NOTES
October 25th Live Session - ARCHIVE NOTES
November 1st Live Session - ARCHIVE NOTES
November 8th Live Session - ARCHIVE
November 15th Live Session - ARCHIVE

For each week's goals and tasks, see individual week's content for more detail.

Week 1 (Oct. 10 - 16) - Introductions to Common Core & Each Other

Goals:

Get to know each other
Read the Common Core
Write Together

Tasks/assignments:

Introductions and expectations. - All students should be writing. Online. In spaces we can access. We'll use our course space for much of this, but I'd encourage you to have a space online that's yours where you can publish writing that you do. I use a blog. Tag anything you write about the class with #p2puedwriting
Spend some time reading, annotating, and responding to the annotations of others on the Common Core Standards related to writing. I've put together a text here for us to use as both reference and conversation space.

Week 2 & 3 (Oct. 17 - 30) - Writing to Learn

Goals:

Explore ways of writing to learn
Practice them
Develop/explore some writing habits together

Tasks/assignments:

In your writing spaces, be writing intentionally in ways you'd ask students to. Reflection. Summary. Response. We'll talk about additional modes during this week's live session.
Consider your writing habits, tools and toys.
Hear from some teachers in our live sessions who are writing with their students.

Week 4 & 5 (Oct. 31 - Nov. 13) - Writing in the Disciplines

Goals:

Dig into genres common to particular disciplines
Think about habits that are necessary for the production of those genres
Begin to develop a plan for your extended writing assignment

Tasks/assignments:

Our course project will be a simple one - using the National Writing Project's Writing Assignment Framework & Overview (description here, PDF here), create a writing assignment that you'd be willing to share and engage your students in. We will share drafts and feedback with each other during our live sessions and in the conversation areas during the 5th week of the course.

Week 6 (Nov. 14 - 18) - Wrapping Up. What's Next?

Goals: