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Conquering the Blank Page: Poetry as a Teaching Tool
A five-day summer workshop for teachers, instructed by Emily Moore
Jul 18, 2016 | 9:00 am - 5:15 pm
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Designed for lovers of poetry as well as those who fear the genre, this five-day intensive will lead middle- and high school teachers through a variety of generative, classroom-friendly exercises meant to inspire the teaching, writing, an reading of poetry. Drawing on the abundant resources of Poets House’s library, reading room, and multimedia center, as well as visits from guest poets Jason Koo and poet Jon Sands, participant teachers will compose, workshop, and share their own poems over the course of the week.
We’ll have multiple opportunities to exchange best practices, discuss adaptations for our own specific student populations, and focus poetry as a teaching tool capable of inspiring diverse student populations to read, write, and interpret complex texts. Come to reconnect with your own inner writer – the one often lost beneath piles of grading! – and leave with new work and new techniques for incorporating poetry into your classroom.
Emily Moore teaches English at Stuyvesant High School, where she has taught poetry workshops since 2001. Her writing has appeared in the New Yorker, and Paris Review, and her chapbook Shuffle, is recently out from Paper Nautilus Press. She has her PhD in English from the CUNY Graduate Center.
Fee: $500
For Department of Education (DOE) teachers seeking p-credit:
Please pay $125 to After School Professional Development Program (ASPDP; Course # P01.158.SS16) on their website here, and Click here to pay $375 to Poets House
For non-DOE teachers or those not seeking p-credit:
Click here to pay $500 to Poets House
To register, please contact christina@poetshouse.org or 212-431-7920, ext. (1) 2835
Designed for lifelong lovers of poetry as well as those who have always feared the genre, this five- day intensive will lead middle- and high school teachers through a variety of hands-on exercises meant to inspire the teaching, writing, and reading of poetry. Drawing on the abundant resources of Poets House’s library, reading room and multimedia center, participants will compose, workshop, and share their own poems over the course of the week, all the while approaching poetry as a teaching tool capable of inspiring diverse student populations to read, write, and interpret complex texts.
We’ll have multiple opportunities to exchange best practices for the teaching of poetry among ourselves and with stellar guest poets Jason Koo and Mahogany Brown, complimenting discussions of potential adaptations of the training for our own specific student populations, developing strategies for differentiating instruction, and our focus on the teaching of poetry as it supports the Common Core Reading and Writing Standards.
Emily Moore teaches English at Stuyvesant High School, where she has taught poetry workshops for the past 11 years. Her writing has appeared in the New Yorker, Paris Review, Newsweek, and the sixth edition of Poetry: A Pocket Anthology. She has her PhD in English from the CUNY Graduate Center.
Registration:.
To register, please contact Christina at christina@poetshouse.org or by phone at 212-431-7920, ext 1-2835.
Application deadline: EXTENDED TO Friday, July 31
For Department of Education teachers seeking p-credit: Please pay $125 to the New York City DOE After School Professional Development Program (ASPDP) on their website and $350 to Poets House (Click Here to pay Poets House)
Fee for non-DOE teachers or those not seeking p-credit: $475 to Poets House (Click Here to pay)
Drawing on Poets House’s 50,000-volume poetry library, this 5-day intensive course will lead middle- and high school teachers through a variety of hands-on exercises meant to inspire the teaching, writing, and reading of poetry. Collaboratively, we’ll approach poetry as a teaching tool capable of inspiring diverse student populations to create and interpret complex texts. Topics covered include poetry as a gateway to major humanities content areas such the American Renaissance, the Harlem Renaissance, and the Beat movement; approaches to teaching Dickinson and Whitman; rhythm, rhyme, and the Shakespearean sonnet; haiku and other Japanese forms; strategies for incorporating the living poetic resources of New York into the classroom teaching of poetry; and poetry-oriented assignments ranging from visual reflections to prose writing about poetry.
Throughout the week, participants will write their own original poems, engaging as both teachers and students with all phases of the writing process, from freewriting to workshop to revision to evaluation of student work, closing with a reading of the participants’ work. We’ll have multiple opportunities to exchange best practices for the teaching of poetry, discuss potential adaptations for our own specific student populations, develop strategies for differentiating instruction, and focus on the teaching of poetry as it supports the Common Core Reading and Writing Standards. Visits from guest poets Kimiko Hahn and Jason Koo will complement our ongoing exploration of poetic and classroom practices.
Instructor Emily Moore teaches English at Stuyvesant High School, where she has taught the Poetry Workshop course for the past 11 years. Her writing has appeared in the New Yorker, Paris Review, Ploughshares, Poetry Daily, Kenyon Review Online Newsweek, and the sixth edition of Poetry: A Pocket Anthology. She has her PhD in English from the CUNY Graduate Center. When she is not teaching or writing, she is one third of the all-girl, country camp trio Ménage à Twang.
Fee: $375
For Department of Education (DOE) teachers seeking p-credit: Please pay $125 to After School Professional Development Program (ASPDP; Course # P27-201SS13) on their website here and $250 to Poets House
For non-DOE teachers or those not seeking p-credit: $375 paid to Poets House
To register, please contact christina@poetshouse.org or 212-431-7920, ext. (1) 2835