Lincoln Summer Institute

English 957B
6 Graduate credits
Offered every summer

Open to teachers of all grade levels. This is NeWP's premiere program, following the National Writing Project Invitational Institute model.
Institute activities: 1. Immerse participants in their own writing; 2. Invite participants to share their best teaching practices for writing; 3. Engage participants in inquiry and research into aspects of writing.

Literature Institute

English 991
3 Graduate Credits
Offered every other summer

Open to teachers of all grade levels. Past participation in an NeWP Summer or Rural Institute is preferred. This Institute explores the teaching of literature in a writing-rich environment. Institute activities include: 1. Immersion in reading and in our own writing; 2. Shared examination of the connections between literature and writing in our teaching; 3. Collaborative research on reading/writing pedagogies; institutional and professional issues; new genres, media, technologies and resources for joining reading and writing.

Technology Institute

English 857B
3 Graduate credits
Offered every summer or every other summer

Open to teachers of all grade levels. Past participation in a NeWP Summer or Rural Institute is preferred. This Institute explores the teaching of writing as enhanced by technology. Institute activities include: 1. Examining technology that supports our own and our students' writing; 2. Sharing classroom projects that enhance writing through technology; 3. Practice developing new classroom applications of software that can be used to support writing.

Humanities Institute

English 992
3 Graduate credits
Offered every third year

Open to teachers of all content-areas and grade levels. Past participation in a NeWP Summer or Rural Institute is preferred but not required. This institute explores the relationship between reading and writing in content areas. Institute activities include: 1. Engaging participants in inquiry and research into the relationship among reading, writing and learning in their content areas; 2. Developing reading and writing practices that enhance participants' teaching goals; 3. Sharing classroom projects that use reading and writing to enhance content knowledge.

Place Conscious Teaching (Online)

English 992B
3 Graduate credits
Offered every other year during fall or spring

Theory and practice of teaching writing, literature, and rhetoric in connection with local place, region, and community.

Level II (NeWP Internship Course)

English 895A
3 Graduate Credits
Offered every year during the school year; course credit is assigned in Presession summer

The Nebraska Writing Project Internship, English 895A, is a group study course for teachers affiliated with the Nebraska Writing Project. Its purpose is to provide a structure through which teachers can collaborate on:

• the development of classroom units in their school context that improve their teaching of writing;
• the exploration and adaptation of current scholarship on teaching writing; and
• the development of their own writing, both to serve as models with their students and to further their own professional development.

The NeWP Internship, like most internships at UNL, assumes that participants will learn via two main opportunities: first, by engaging in ongoing professional work in a teaching context outside UNL, such as teaching in a Nebraska school; second, by reflecting on this ongoing work through sustained dialogue with other teachers, and sharing that reflection with an overseeing UNL professor.

The NeWP Internship is a year-long program offered during the academic year (the fall-spring terms of participants' schools), culminating in the submission of a course portfolio for UNL credit in the summer Presession.

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