Are you a Middle School or High School teacher who is interested in…
- knowing how argumentation is a critical component of the Common Core and Next Generation Science Standards?
- learning more about the necessity of argumentation as a skill built across all disciplines?
- understanding how to integrate argumentative writing into your teaching?
- enhancing your students' abilities to use evidence to build explanations and support arguments?
Ohio State is offering a summer workshop to train participants on effective ways to teach argumentation in middle and high school classrooms. Rather than being the domain of English language arts teachers, argumentative writing should be a skill built across all disciplines. At the same time, inertia on acceptance of climate change, in the face of overwhelming evidence, suggests that individuals need to better learn, at a young age, how to craft and evaluate claims based on evidence and reasoning. Teams of teachers from the same building or district are encouraged to apply!
- Dates & Times: Tuesday, July 7 to Friday, July 10, 2015 • 8:00 am to 3:30 pm
- Location: Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center, The Ohio State University, 1090 Carmack Road, Columbus, Ohio 43210 (West Campus)
- Application Deadline: June 1, 2015
Participating teachers will be expected to attend all four days. The workshop will be divided into three distinct segments; these segments will provide participants with a foundation for teaching argumentative writing, an opportunity to deploy the skills learned, and a development period to create instructional materials specific to their content areas and courses taught. The cost of attendance per participant will be $30 with costs of learning materials, parking, and food included. Tours of the Byrd Center Archives and the Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center are part of the summer experience.
Please direct any questions to Jason Cervenec at cervenec.1@osu.edu or 614-688-0080.
This workshop is offered through a partnership between the Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center Outreach & Education Program, Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center Archival Program, and The Ohio State University College of Education with generous funding from the Kane Lodge Foundation.
