Description
How can you leverage your students' interests to develop inspiring and meaningful projects? Incorporating passion projects in the classroom allows students to delve deeply into their interests, fostering a love for learning and personal growth. Join Natalie Mitchell for this hands-on, interactive workshop as we explore strategies to ignite student creativity through passion projects, including how to merge the writing and reading processes to enhance comprehension and communication skills. Get ready to elevate your students' learning experience with passion projects! Natalie's expertise as a literacy consultant will provide you with the tools and resources necessary to empower students, enabling them to create projects that are relevant and personal to their individual experiences.
Objectives
Recall the key concepts and strategies for bolstering transfer, agency, and the reading and writing process. Explain how integrating writing and reading processes can enhance student research and project development. Implement strategies to guide students in researching their passions and creating projects. Examine the writing process through the lens of an inquiry project with considerations for scaffolds for student learning. Assess student projects for engagement, creativity, and depth of research. Design lesson plans that incorporate the integration of writing and reading processes to support student passion projects.
