Georgia Costal Writing Project

Resources

2007 Application and Nomination Forms

2007 Teacher Consultant Nomination Form

2007 Summer Institute Brochure

2005 Fellows

The COASTAL GEORGIA WRITING PROJECT is one of 182 local sites of the National Writing Project (NWP) which the Carnegie Corporation has described as “the best large-scale effort to improve composition instruction now in operation in this country.”

The central purpose of each local NWP site is to identify and bring together successful teachers of writing from all levels of instruction—elementary through university—across the academic disciplines for an intensive, five-week Summer Institute.

The aims of the institute are:

To provide teachers, administrators, and curriculum specialists a setting in which to demonstrate their own best practices and share classroom successes.
To give teachers of writing an opportunity to become students by writing and responding to their own writing and the writing of others.
To help participants broaden and make more conscious the grounds of their teaching through the study of writing theory and research.
To identify and train a corps of teachers, curriculum specialists, and program administrators who can effectively teach the approaches and processes of writing to other teachers

Upon successful completion of the Summer Institute, Fellows will become CGWP Teacher/Consultants, qualified to plan and conduct year-long, GCWP staff development workshops and in-service programs on the teaching of writing in area schools. Fellowships to the CGWP Summer Invitational Institute will be awarded each year to teachers, administrators, and curriculum specialists, pre-kindergarten through university, from across the academic disciplines. If you are interested in receiving additional information about fellowships for the Summer Institute or any of our other professional development programs, please e-mail Pat West at westpatr@mail.armstrong.edu or call the CGWP office at (912) 921-5692.

Armstrong Atlantic State University, a University System of Georgia Institution
11935 Abercorn Street, Savannah, Georgia 31419