For over thirty years, educators have been gathering at TC for The Project’s summer institutes. Many of the basic principles and methods of learning are just as they have always been since the inception of the institutes: participants learn by doing the reading and writing they will be asking students to do; they attend fast-paced, info-packed lectures; they hear inspiring keynotes; they have access to leaders in the field of literacy and children’s literature. (Hello Lucy Calkins, Kathy Collins, Lester Laminack, and James Howe!)
But there is one way in which the institutes have changed, and that is due to the influence of social media. Currently, in the first days of the Reading Institute, check out the #TCRWP Twitter feed, and you’ll find:
What a boon social media has quickly become to the institute experience. This week’s TCRWP Twitter chat will be devoted to reflecting on the August Reading Institute. Staff Developers Kara Arnold and Elise Whitehouse will lead attendees in chatting about their learning, their future plans, their burning questions, and more. Whether you are attending the institute or learning from afar, or you are a novice or a veteran teacher, we welcome you to join in.
Each Wednesday night at 7:30pm eastern, The Teacher's College Reading and Writing Project hosts a Twitter chat using the hashtag #TCRWP. Join @karnold022 & @whithouse09 to chat about the August Reading Institute tomorrow evening.
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