Dr. Judith C. Hochman is the former Head of Windward School in White Plains, New York. She is the founder and senior faculty member of the Windward Teacher Training Institute. She was the Superintendent of the Greenburgh Graham Union Free School District in Hastings on Hudson, New York. Dr. Hochman is on the faculty of the Center for Educational Leadership, Baruch College, City University of New York. She lectures, presents workshops and gives courses for educational organizations, colleges and universities, as well as public and independent schools. more »
Teaching Basic Writing Skills, Dr. Hochman’s manual for teachers, provides teachers with flexible, evidenced -based strategies for written language instruction. It offers specific techniques to support students in enhancing sentence structure, revising skills and organizing their expository and narrative writing. This program has been successfully implemented in elementary, middle, and secondary grades and in every content area. more »
Events/Lectures
Expository Writing Instruction: Part One, Session 1
Dates: Monday - Thursday, July 8, 9, 10, 11, 2013
Time: 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Windward Teacher Training Institute
40 West Red Oak Lane
White Plains, NY 10604
If you are using a GPS, please input "40 West Red Oak Lane, West Harrison, NY 10604", as our Red Oak Lane campus in White Plains does not always show up on GPS navigation systems and you could mistakenly be directed to our Lower School campus on Windward Avenue.
This course will present strategies for teaching expository writing in all content areas in grades K-12. Instructional guidelines will be presented for developing complex sentences; outlining; writing paragraphs and compositions; and revising and editing. It offers specific techniques to add structure, coherence and clarity to students' expository writing. This writing program, Teaching Basic Writing Skills, can be implemented in general classrooms and special settings and instruction can be adapted for large classrooms, resource rooms or tutorials.
Instructors: Judith C. Hochman, Ed.D. and Betsy Duffy, M.S., Ed.
Course #: S1311.1, Session #1
Fee: $600 (TBWS manual included)
To download and print a registration form: click here
*This course is offered for one graduate credit. There are additional hours, assignments and fees. Please contact Susan Sidel at 914 949-1279 for information.
This course is offered for 1.5 ASHA CEUs (Intermediate level; Professional area). Speakers disclosures:
Financial - Betsy Duffy, M.S. Ed. is a consultant for Sopris West and receives partial royalties for the Template Activities that accompany the manual, Teaching Basic Writing Skills. Nonfinancial - She is the Director of Language Arts at The Windward School and receives no additional compensation as a course instructor.