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:  

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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.  

 

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Message  from  Program  Director,  Helen  Buhler,  Ph.D.  

 

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