Our School Goal this year is on improving writing.
Earlier in the year, my wife was contacted about a educational conference that was being offered for home-schoolers and teachers by Andrew Pudewa, the author of Writing With Excallence. The conference was entitled Spicing Up Your Kids' Learning.
I applied for leave to attend the conference and my request was granted and my course and travel costs were also covered by the school.
The Conference was held at the Bishopdale Reformed Church in Christchurch, August 10-11 2018
The following topics were covered:
- Nurturing Competent Communicators - The Power of Linguistic Patterns
- The Four Deadly Errors of Teaching Writing
- Fairy Tales and the Moral Imagination
- Paper and Pen: What the Research Says
- Mastery Learning
- The Four Language Arts
- Seven Keys Of Great Teaching
- Teaching Boys & Other Children Who Would Rather Make Forts All Day
- Lessons Learned From Three Decades Of Teaching
- + Question times
The conference helped very much and enthused me lots and gave me a lot of things to think about in regards to the way I teach and the way I could be teaching Writing.
In blogs to follow, I will share What I learned...
My wife and I also bought a couple of resources that I hope to use.
Bible Heroes Writing Lessons With Structure and Style
Teaching Writing, Structure, and Style - Seminar with practical workbook and 12 DVD's
Looking forward to more details of what you covered Craig.
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