The Jane Schaffer Writing Program® provides job-embedded professional development (“JET”) as a follow-up component to face-to-face professional development workshops and live webinars. After training teachers in collaborative, whole-group environments, Jane Schaffer® national consultants and master teachers demonstrate the instructional writing process in real time with current students; the training is centered on issues of actual practice in teachers’ classrooms.

• Lesson Modeling: On the periphery of the classroom, teachers observe the pacing and student interaction that typically occur in the application of JSWP™ while JSWP™ trainers teach the students. Schools provide class sets of copies for students, color-coded pens, and tent cards with names of students on students’ desks.
  Customized Lessons are writing lessons designed to complement teachers’ lesson cycles. For example, if a teacher’s lesson plan calls for a writing supplement for a specific fictional piece or nonfictional idea or issue, LEC will design a job-embedded training session that pertains specifically to that lesson, working with the teacher of record to maximize objectives, integrate standards, and engage students.

• Coaching: The trainer observes the teacher’s delivery of a writing lesson and provides feedback afterward in a whole-group or one-to-one setting. The teacher provides the trainer with areas in the lesson or lesson cycle to provide constructive criticism. In the case of a whole-group scenario, the trainer provides the feedback while the whole group listens and asks questions.

• Team Teaching: In this scenario, a teacher and a trainer work together in the classroom.

  • Lesson Delivery: The teacher presents a portion of the lesson, and the trainer presents a portion of the lesson.

  • One-to-One Conferences with Students – After a teacher’s students complete a writing assignment, each student completes a Helping Hand conference guide, identifying the part of the paragraph (body, intro, or conclusion) that poses the most challenges. Teachers observe the trainer provide a one-to-one feedback session for several students. Then, teachers provide feedback while trainer observes.

Pricing:

• Modeling in any content area – $5,000 per day (A.M. Session and P.M. Session with debriefing sessions after each session)

• Coaching – $3,000 per day (4-6 observations, depending on class times)

• Team Teaching - $4,000 per day (maximum of 4 lessons per day)