PART I. Please complete the following information and return with your written materials.

Name:

Applying as individual
Applying as team member

Home address:

Home Phone:

School year email:

Summer email:

School Name:

School Address:

School Phone:

Teaching Level/Area:

Administrator Contact:

Name:

Position:

Address:

PART II. Please write and submit an informal essay describing how you teach writing or use writing as a means of learning in your classroom or subject. (Maximum of two pages, double-spaced)

PART III. Obtain an administrator letter of support which pledges to provide you with presentation time during the fall start up week to present a one hour informal description or your Summer Institute experience and send a hard copy to Susan Crothers, SOE, 900 State St., Salem, OR, 97301.

PART IV. Design a preliminary proposal for a fifty-minute teaching demonstration based on a successful lesson you taught in your classroom which involves a substantial writing component. (One page, double-spaced—we will fine tune this proposal during the first week.)

PART V. Finalists will be interviewed beginning mid-February. Questions will touch on your short essay, your writing interests and concerns, your philosophy of teaching writing, your proposed teaching presentation, and your desire to work in collaboration with others during the Summer Institute. Also we will answer your questions. First applicants receive priority by application postmark and interviews will continue until all twenty $1900 tuition stipends are made.

Complete this application early in the year—we hope to complete interviews and notify successful applicants by April—and send to:

Susan Crothers
School of Education
Willamette University
900 State St.
Salem, OR 97301

Please contact Susan Crothers with questions at scrother@willamette.edu