Teacher TrainingSheila has trained teachers for school districts in AZ, CA and WA. Whether teachers want to learn how to offer the best essay writing help for students facing the SAT, to understand essay writing guidelines for college applications, or prepare their students for college and vocational school essay writing, Sheila's writing instruction helps them learn a process that makes them and the students they teach into excellent peer reviewers and motivators. Sheila's essay writing help includes many ways to inspire personal journaling among students and an abundance of journaling ideas to use as springboards to longer essays.
Moreover, since learning how to write poetry helps students strengthen their descriptive and persuasive essay writing, Sheila offers teacher training that facilitates the application of the craft of poetry to developing essay writing topics and writing essays that are vivid and insightful. Now, having written Perfect Phrases for College Application Essays, forthcoming March, 2008 from McGraw-Hill, Sheila is prepared to teach seminars on writing the college application essay for students, teachers and parents.
Teachers who take Sheila's training are no longer afraid to teach writing and to write themselves--one of the strongest motivators for helping students write well. When teachers work with Sheila, they write, respond to work-in-progress, and learn how to revise to find the shape of experience on the page and the inherent insight writing offers. They become skilled at offering writing instruction.
Contact Sheila at to discuss the ways she can help your district's teachers excel at teaching writing and offering their students help writing essays, help learning how to write poetry, and help writing stories. |