CHILDREN'S WRITING WORKSHOP: CHILDREN'S ART AND WRITING AT AZTEC RUINS
If you are a teacher of grades 3 -5 in San Juan County, New Mexico, and wish to apply to the 2005-06 school year Children's Writing Workshop, either email this completed form to george_herring@nps.gov or mail it to:
Attn.: George Herring/Children’s Writing Workshop
84 County Road 2900
CHILDREN'S WRITING WORKSHOP: APPLICATION FORM
Name of interested teacher:
Name and address of school:
Phone # of school:
Your home phone # (in case we can't reach you in school):
Grade of students:
Any other information pertinent to your students:
Preferred schedule: Pick a month and we will consult you to determine actual dates.
( ) November ( ) December ( ) January ( ) February ( ) March
Please tell us what you hope your students will gain from this workshop.
Note that the quality of your written work is one of our selection criteria:
In order for your students to be involved in this program, we will require the following commitments from your school:
1. Bag lunches for those students who have free or reduced-price lunches. We ask that students bring a bag lunch for the first session, which runs from 9:00 am to 1:45 pm.
2. In-kind contributions in the form of the following materials: 1 ream of laser/xerox quality paper, for final printing of stories; markers; colored construction paper for display of completed work; lamination of art-work, or clear contact paper to prepare for display.
3. Art materials for students to use in illustrating stories. We will work with you to determine medium to be used for illustration. Stories will be displayed at the Aztec Ruins visitor center; selected stories may be submitted for publication.
4. The commitment of time to this project, as follows:
- 1 day at Aztec Ruins with resident writer, traditional Pueblo presenter, for field trip/tour and writing workshop;
- 1-2 days in school to complete, revise, and illustrate stories;
- 1-2 days in school with resident writer to edit and prepare manuscripts for display;
- 1/2 day at Aztec Ruins for Young Authors’ Reading.
5. 2-3 parent volunteers to assist with one-to-one or small group needs on field trip, and with day-of-event work at the Reading.
In the 2005-06 school year, Aztec Ruins may be able to provide some funding for participants. Please indicate below if you will need the following support:
-- Bus transportation for students, 1 round trip from school to Aztec Ruins to tour the Ruins and begin writing stories
--Bus transportation for students, 1 round trip from school to Aztec Ruins for the Young Authors’ reading.
--For art and photography workshops, art and/or photography supplies.
We also ask that you commit to the philosophy and intent of this program, which is to give students the tools, setting, and the emotional/creative space to write and create art. No content is disallowed, but the rules of the genre or conventions of the art form are made known and expected to be followed. Please make sure you discuss the content and teaching approaches used in this program with the resident writer/artist, so you are a partner in the process and can comfortably commit to using these strategies and methods with your students in the future.
As collaborating teacher, you will be responsible for obtaining the
necessary releases from families, for field trips, photographs, publication of
stories, display of stories at Aztec Ruins, radio readings of stories,
newspaper articles, or other publicity preceding or following the Young Authors
Reading.
Collaborating Teacher signature
Date
Updated November 10, 2005