How can you leverage your students' interests to develop inspiring and meaningful projects? Incorporating passion projects in the classroom allows students to delve deeply into their interests, fostering a love for learning and personal growth. Join Natalie Mitchell for this hands-on, interactive workshop as we explore strategies to ignite student creativity through passion projects, including how to merge the writing and reading processes to enhance comprehension and communication skills. Get ready to elevate your students' learning experience with passion projects! Natalie’s expertise as a literacy consultant will provide you with the tools and resources necessary to empower students, enabling them to create projects that are relevant and personal to their individual experiences.
This is workshop one of two for the series titled “Passion Projects: Tapping into Creative Passions While Exploring Reading and Writing Process.”
Key Takeaways:
- Learn how to guide students in transforming their interests and ideas into engaging, inspiring projects.
- Discover strategies to effectively integrate the writing and reading processes during research.
- Explore methods to increase student engagement and motivation through passion-driven projects.
- Gain practical tips on how to implement these strategies in your classroom to foster creativity and critical thinking.
Workshop Details:
While we recommend that you attend all sessions of the workshop series to meet the learning objectives, each workshop can be attended as a standalone. Full members will also have access to view the recordings on demand and earn up to two continuing education credits.
Special Technology Instructions:
Attendees will need access to an internet-enabled device and a personal Google account (not affiliated with their school). SimpleK12’s Google Classroom will be utilized for the interactive and hands-on components of this workshop.
Assessment:
Participants will have communication and collaboration and opportunities throughout the training to demonstrate their understanding of the workshop objectives and reflect on their learning.
