Below is a list of the current professional development offerings of the Department of English Language Arts. As new courses are developed and scheduled they will be added to this list, so please check back often. For details on the current registration and payment procedures for professional development offered by the Division of Teaching and Learning, see the Teaching and Learning Professional Development page.
Write All about It: Writing in the Social Studies Classroom with Smokey Daniels
Date: Wednesday, 12/02/09
Time: 8:30 am – 3:00 pm
Location: The New-York Historical Society
170 Central Park West between 76th & 77th Street
Manhattan
Target Audience: 5th grade classroom teachers and 6th– 8th Grade
Social Studies or Humanities Teachers
Maximum: 125
Facilitators: Harvey “Smokey” Daniels
Price: $100
FAMIS item number: TLEA00208
Protraxx Activity Code: 051-10-013-025
Course Description: This is a one-day content area writing workshop for grade 5-8 social studies teachers. Author Harvey “Smokey” Daniels will work with teachers as they discover how writing can be a powerful and efficient tool for helping students connect with social studies content and deepen their understanding of it. This workshop shows that incorporating carefully structured writing activities into your lessons actually increases understanding and achievement, and saves valuable instructional time. All participants will receive Harvey Daniels’s book, Content Area Writing.
Harvey "Smokey" Daniels received his Ph.D. from Northwestern University. He is the author or coauthor of thirteen books on language, literacy and education, including Literature Circles, Subjects Matter, and Content Area Writing.