For The Love of Education: February 15th!

Workshops: Enriching project-based learning experiences

In addition to our high quality 1-on-1 tutoring, Tutorpedia offers project-based workshops for middle school and high school students. Students can choose from over 30 workshops that are designed to be fun and engaging, but also to build essential skills that students can use to help themselves in school, work, and life. Workshops typically involve 6-12 students and last 12-20 hours (6-10 two hour sessions), but they can be customized to fit almost any schedule or time frame. In our workshops, students cultivate essential skills and habits of mind in a fun, extracurricular context, and they have the chance to work collaboratively with peers and instructors alike.

Tutorpedia workshops are very flexible. Workshops can easily fit into schools’ after school or extracurricular programs, can be delivered to homeschooling circles or community centers, can be offered privately, or can be taught in the summers or over extended school vacations. There is no set location or time for workshops, as each workshop will have its own needs. Locations and times are handled on a case-by-case basis. Tutorpedia Workshops give enterprising educators the opportunity to publish their work on a reputable and recognized public forum, utilize innovative models of curriculum design and pedagogy, connect with students, and actually teach what they’ve always dreamt of teaching.

Tutorpedia Workshops are:

Project-based. At the end of every workshop, students will have made, done, performed, accomplished, or completed something that they can show to their family and friends.
Authentic. Students will not just be learning about something; they will be actively constructing their understanding and skills in a real context.
Personalized. Like Tutorpedia’s 1-on-1 tutoring, small group workshops take into account the needs and wants of every student that participates. Enrollment in workshops is kept small to ensure that nobody gets left behind or slips through the cracks. Workshops typically involve 6-10 students and last 12-20 hours (6-10 two hour sessions), but they can be as long or as short as the author wants.
Rigorous, but fun. Workshop authors and teachers have chosen the topics that they are working with. Not only are they passionate about their workshops’ subject matter, they are experts in it.
Enriching. Students cultivate essential skills and habits of mind in a fun extracurricular context, and have a chance to work collaboratively with peers who share their interests.

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Workshop Notes

Beginning Fiction Writing

Like to use your imagination? Like telling stories that crack-up your friends or leave a stranger gripped and wanting more? Like to read cool things? If so, then you'll be interested in writing fiction. Maybe you already write, or maybe you just want to try it out--either way this is the place for you. In my workshop you will learn the essential elements of writing fiction that will be the foundation you build upon whether you want to write serious literary fiction or fun genre fiction like sci-fi and fantasy. You will see that being a good writer begins with being a good reader. In addition to looking at the work of professional fiction writers for tips and tricks, we will be 'workshopping' each other's stories. Workshopping is the core feature of any serious creative writing class and 'to workshop' means that you will read your classmaters' stories carefully and thoughtfully and afterwards offer supportive feedback and constructive criticism. In return you will receive the same invaluable help from them. Everyone will have the chance to have a draft of his or her story workshopped by the class with the intention being that the feedback you receive will help you to write a stronger second draft. The completion of this revised draft of your story is the end project of the class. On the last day, we will compile everyone's stories to create an on-line literary journal.

Final Project:: A revised version of a story that has been workshopped by the class. All stories will be posted to a public forum on the internet for hte world to read!
Audience:: Grades 9-12
When & Where:: Contact us for course availability!