The webpage of the CTLT was deleated but
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April 29, 2012
Seminar Session_3
Once again,
thank you to those of you who took the time to come out to the seminar on
Sunday! It was really great to be able to work with all of you as teachers and
colleagues. Some really great stuff has already come out of this
project--interesting lesson plans, ideas and writing--and I can't wait to see
what more is in store!
Still, even though it's been a joy working on this project, we'd like to be able to make it even better if we ever decide to do it again in the future. The only way for us to do that is by hearing your feedback--hopefully, you've had a sufficient chance to unwind and reflect after the session on Sunday.
So, whether you came to only one seminar or all three, we want to hear from you, our experienced teachers. Please answer honestly and completely to help us become better teachers and project designers!
Still, even though it's been a joy working on this project, we'd like to be able to make it even better if we ever decide to do it again in the future. The only way for us to do that is by hearing your feedback--hopefully, you've had a sufficient chance to unwind and reflect after the session on Sunday.
So, whether you came to only one seminar or all three, we want to hear from you, our experienced teachers. Please answer honestly and completely to help us become better teachers and project designers!
Writing Beyond Reality--Rivne
Feedback Questionnaire
Please answer the following questions and send back to Andrew at this email address.
Throughout the seminars:
- What did you find most useful either as a teacher or as a writer?
- What, if anything, might change in the way you think about writing? About teaching writing?
- How likely are you to use creative writing materials in your classes?
- Suggestions: What could we have done differently to make it better for you? What would you have liked to know more about? What did we spend too much time on?
Andrew Cartwright
Project trainer
Feedback from the participants
Yulia Safonova, RELLiseum
I used some activities, which you've suggested, in my classes. Most
of all children were interested in the activity with the task to create their
own stories, using only the information, they got on three shits of paper from
their classmates about the name of the hero, the time and place of the story
and the conflict. They all were excited. Their stories were very
different. I will send you some: So thank you for positive emotions and
inspiration!!!
Yulia Safonova, RELLiseum
The most useful
thing was the awareness of "self ability" to create. Now I understand
that every person is talented, everyone can be a writer. And the main
thing of teaching writing is to help every child to believe in his
talent. A pupil is not a vessel, you are to fill. It is a torch you are to set
fire to. And the only way to do it is to inspire.
Nina Karpliuk, school # 15
I used some activities, which you've suggested, in my classes. Most
of all children were interested in the activity with the task to create their
own stories, using only the information, they got on three shits of paper from
their classmates about the name of the hero, the time and place of the story
and the conflict. They all were excited. Their stories were very
different. I will send you some: So thank you for positive emotions and
inspiration!!!
Halyna Abramchuk, SML "ELITAR".
Suggestions: don't do it on Sundays, please! Sunday doesn't inspire
for writing, only for rest.
and one more - would you be so kind as to make sessions shorter - it is really hard to keep attention for 6 hours. As for me, I would really like to know more activities I can use for teaching creative writing.
and one more - would you be so kind as to make sessions shorter - it is really hard to keep attention for 6 hours. As for me, I would really like to know more activities I can use for teaching creative writing.
Inna Matlakh, School
# 22
1/ as a teacher
I found it the most useful
2/Everything was
clear and nice
3/I shall try to do my best
4/Thank you for the opportunity!!!
3/I shall try to do my best
4/Thank you for the opportunity!!!
March 5 - May 14
Three-part
"Writing Beyond..." Webinar series
Rivne Center for Teaching, Learning and Technology (CTLT) is pleased to announce the three-part "Writing Beyond..." webinar series dedicated to
helping teachers to develop innovative ways of incorporating creative writing,
critical thinking and e-Teaching practices into their classroom. The first session on March 5, 2012
will begin with a general overview and explanation of creative writing in both
an academic and a personal context. Then, the focus will move toward more
practical matters which will include sharing creative writing best practices
and successful (and reproducible) projects. Further sessions in April and May
2012 will delve more deeply into genre-specific assignments and assessment as
well as possible publication outlets for student and teacher writing. Each
90-minute webinar will take place on a Monday at 3 p.m.
To take part in the Webinar the participants must fill out the
Application Form and send it to the given address. Once you have sent the
Application Form you will receive an e-mail with a link to the webinar Meeting
Room. The webinars will be recorded; you are expected to register in the
Meeting Room only your first/city name.
Your computer must have Java 6, which comes pre-installed. Blackboard
Collaborate11 is the platform we are using for the webinar and it gives you all
the instructions to follow while entering the webinar Meeting Room.
Find more impressions and feedback on the students' blogs
Find more impressions and feedback on the students' blogs
February 19, 2012
Training
session for teachers and pre-teachers in creative writing technologies.
Four Peace Corps volunteer instructors conducted the first of the three
monthly seminars for a 2 groups of 28
teachers and pre-teachers and 22 students of the Rivne State University of Humanities, focusing on creative writing
skills, best practices and critical thinking skills. Among the objectives of the training session the trainers focused
on the following:
- Teachers will be able to discover themselves as writers.
- Teachers will be able to identify the importance of viewing and teaching writing as a process, and will be able to utilize methods of incorporating each stage in their own classrooms.
- Teachers will be able to identify and utilize multiple best practices to improve the quality of writing instruction in their classrooms, including fun and creative activities.
- Teachers will be able to support better student writers.
The knowledge gained from the seminar the
participants will apply into their own classrooms using innovative assignments,
while also educating their educational peers about the new techniques and
information that they have learned.
Information is also posted on www.rivne-metodist.at.ua
February 2, 2012
Round table discussion:
Creative writing at the English lessons in schools.
There was
successfully held the Round table “Creative Writing and the Curriculum Development: Joint session
of the University Faculty researchers and the group of English teachers from
Rivne city methodological unit, officers of the Rivne Dept. of Education. The
meeting was opened by Galyna Nikolaichuk, Dean of the faculty. She invited the
educational community to collaboration with the university researchers, to active
participation in all the events in the CTLT. Andrew Cartwright and Melissa Krut
shared some success stories from other projects like Writing Beyond (
Mykolaiv), A Day in Ukraine.
The potential of the students is great which showed the results of 2011 International
Creative Writing Olympics . The trainers
gave details on the project suggested. There
were 32 participants who were exposed to some outlines of the modern researches
on critical thinking and creative writing presented by Olena Kasatkina, PhD.
The results of the work of the English teachers who had worked as a group on
developing technologies on creative writing were presented by Iryna Putylina,
English teacher from school # 15, Olena Kinas from the School of Hope
shared practical hints and hooks for a successful use of the Business English
writing technologies in the classroom. Yulia Kinzhalova, the city Dept. of
Education officer, summed up the discussion
and expressed her strong belief in the project outcomes.
Dear colleagues,
a new project is
announced!
Writing Beyond... _(
Creative Writing and School Curriculum Development.)
PROJECT
DATES January, 2012 – June 2012
This project will use a series of creative
writing seminars, spread out across a three-month span, to educate teachers and
students alike about how to incorporate creative writing and critical thinking
into their lives inside and outside of the classroom. Together with the CTLT, NGO
counterparts and several Peace Corps volunteers, three one-day seminars will be
conducted, one each in February, March and April, that will focus on teaching
basic creative writing techniques and outlets, with a special emphasis on e-
teaching, production and publication. The seminars will be divided into three
main subject areas: basic writing/genre information and best practices in
February; editing and workshopping in March; and project development and
publication in April. The gap between each seminar will be necessary for
participants to plan and work on writing projects. All of the lessons will
include practical information and ideas that can be applied in the classroom
and in the participants' personal and academic lives. Fifteen teachers from the city of Rivne and within the vicinity of the city in Rivnenska
oblast, as well as 10 motivated university pre-teachers, twenty students ages 16-22, will attend each
seminar held at Rivne
State Humanities
University in the
regional Center for Teaching, Learning and Technology (CTLT). Participants will
be invited through Peace Corps volunteer contacts, the TESOL-Ukraine group, and
in conjunction with the Rivne Department of Education. The seminars will be
open on a first-come, first serve basis to any teacher or student willing to
commit to all three sessions (we will have participants apply to the program
and then sign a commitment statement at the first session). Throughout the
seminars we will discuss and decide upon a group project (a blog, anthology, or
zine) composed of participant writing to be completed by June, 2012. To train teachers and pre-teachers new
technologies will be one of the tasks of the project.
Webinars prepared and conducted by the trainers together with the participants will show the teachers one
more way for in-service training.
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