KUWP issues its first quarterly newsletter.
April 6, 2011
KUWP hosted its first Annual Spring Professional Development Seminar "Teachers Teaching Teachers: A Day of Conversations, Practices, Sharing, Readings, and Writing about Writing in the Classroom".
April 2, 2011
Kean University is holding an International Conference on American Drama.
October 29-30, 2010
The Kean University Writing Project (KUWP), in cooperation with the National Writing Project, and the National Council for the Teaching of English, holds its 2nd Annual National Day on Writing Celebration.
October 20, 2010
a month-long institute for teachers working on their craft of writing and of teaching writing.
July 6-29, 2010
Dr. Ruth Griffith, associate professor in the Department of English, gave a KUWP professional development workshop for Kean faculty on the topic of how specific gaps in students' language proficiency in understanding deictic referencing in everyday usage can lead to to low performance on mathematics skill assessment of English language learners.
July 15, 2010
Dr. Linda Best, professor in the Department of English, gave a KUWP professional development workshop for Kean faculty.
June 21, 2010
Directed by Dr. Sally Chandler in the Department of English, the The Writing Center in the Maxine & Jack Lane Center for Academic Success (Room 111E) has opened, providing peer writing coaches who work one-on-one support to Kean students.
January, 2010
The Kean University Writing Project (KUWP), in cooperation with the National Writing Project, and the National Council for the Teaching of English, holds its Annual Day on Writing Celebration.
October 21, 2009
a month-long institute for teachers working on their craft of writing and of teaching writing.
July 7-30, 2009
an interactive workshop for Kean University faculty and staff with Linda Best to discuss formative measures for evaluating writing skills.
Summer 2009, College hour
an interactive workshop for Kean University faculty and staff with Linda Best to discuss writing-to-learn pedagogy and activities/assignments that support/supplement teaching and learning in the classroom rather than taking away from instructional time and focus on content.
Spring 2009, College hour
a month-long institute for teachers working on their craft of writing and of teaching writing.
Summer 2008
Pictured above: Participants of the NWP Summer 2008 Writing Institute at Kean University
The Department of English proudly announces its
affiliation with the National Writing Project and
access to the organization's resources on writing,
such as this one, that covers areas ranging from
responding to student writing to strategies for
addressing punctuation and grammar.
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http://www.nwp.org/cs/public/print/resource_topic/teaching_writing
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