Professional Development and Teaching Institutes
The Calderwood experience had an impact on my teaching, making me more aware of techniques to teach my students how to write like scientists. I wanted to retire in September; however, this trial year using these techniques inspired me to see its effect next year.
During 2006-2007, the Initiative funded institutes that served more than one hundred college and high school teachers, including:
- The Teachers as Writers Summer Institute at the Athenæum, a two-week workshop led by University of Massachusetts-Boston Professor Judith Goleman for teachers from kindergarten to college
- Franklin Pierce College Summer Institute, a series of workshops helping teachers from all disciplines address the writing challenges of college students of traditional age and those attending college after experience in the workforce
- Keene State College Institute on the Teaching of Writing, an expansion of a summer institute into a yearlong format at this institution of higher learning with a long history of teacher education