Our Year-Round Workshops are exciting opportunities to learn more about the OUAWP and to meet other committed teachers in Appalachian Ohio. They are open to any teacher in the ten counties we serve (Athens, Gallia, Hocking, Jackson, Meigs, Morgan, Perry, Lawrence,Vinton, and Washington) and beyond. You do not have to participate in the Summer Institute to join us for Year-Round Workshops.

During the 2009-2010 school year, OUAWP will offer the following workshops:

Teaching Social Justice through the Holocaust will take place on the Ohio University campus and will be led by Teacher Consultant Susan Fletcher, an AWP Fellow who recently spent two weeks at the 2009 Memorial Library Summer Seminar on Holocaust Education in New York City. Participants will be introduced to current research pertaining to the teaching of Holocaust literature and histories, as well as strategies for creating and facilitating assignments dealing with the difficult issues of social justice.

Date: Friday, October 9th, 2009; 10-4
Registration Deadline: September 30, 2009
[click here to register]

Digital Storytelling: Moving Students from Paper to Screen will take place on the Ohio University campus and will be led by AWP Co-Director, Dr. Don Dudding. New technologies emerge all the time, and as educators, it often takes us a while to recognize how to put them to good use in our classrooms. This workshop will focus on both the technical challenges and the pedagogical issues that teachers encounter as they help students transition from paper and ink to pixels and mp3s. Part theoretical discussion of how much responsibility do we need to take in teaching students to use their high tech devices ethically and part practical
practical demonstration on how to use widely available resources (computers, cellphones, digital cameras) to create new ways of telling stories, this workshop will help teachers navigate the administrative, legal, social, and technical hurdles they face in helping their students find a voice in the 21st century.

Date: Saturday, April 10th, 2010; 10-4
Registration Deadline: March 31, 2010
[click here to register]