Faculty Writing Workshops

The Mentoring Community

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How We Work With You

An initial consultation identifies your goals and needs, choice of programs, and how best to implement them at your institution

The Faculty Writing Program

• Writing Questionnaire identifies participants' writing styles, skills, goals
• Initial on-site workshop (4 to 6 hrs)
• 10-12 monthly meetings (1-½ hr each over 10-12 months) conducted via teleconference
  
• Take-home Writing Suite tools >>
• Individual editing and publishing assistance available

The Mentoring Community

• Participant Presurvey identifies skills and goals
• One-day on-site workshop >>
• Workshop take-home materials included
• Free follow-up consultation included
• E-Help for Follow-up

What's Unique About Our Programs

• Exceptionally low cost, with significantly high yield
• Adoptable institution-wide, or by department
• Customized, not mass-produced, training workshops and followup
• Proven results. The Writing Workshop was presented at the AAHE 2001 Conference on Faculty Roles and Rewards

Both our productivity programs, the Writing Workshop and the Mentoring Community, capitalize on—

• Proven principles of learning theory and group process
• Time and work management
• Psychosocial aspects of productivity and career success

Both programs use—

E-help for follow-up—the full electronic repertoire, including online discussion forums, expert chats, and Customized Writing Help™ and Customized Mentoring Help™ (unique GTSP web-based software)

About GTSP

Executive directors Barbara Penn and Hilde Weisert have created, managed, and run training programs for corporations, schools, and universities. Through the US Dept of Education, they pioneered the national school improvement program, Learncycle. Both have advanced degrees in psychology and learning theory and are published writers of fiction, poetry, and essays. The Writing Suite™ and Mentoring Community™ integrate their background in psychology, writing, and group process. GTSP also develops interactive web sites for small and large business and produces documentation for business software.

Partial list of clients:

Columbia University Teachers College, Bank Street College, North Carolina State University College of Veterinary Medicine, US Department of Education, Geraldine Dodge Foundation, NJ State Council on the Humanities, Nortel Networks, The Fleming School, Children's Television Workshop, Channel 13, The Institute for Research in History.

Costs

In general, the cost for an initial onsite Writing Workshop is $3000; monthly follow-up meetings via teleconference are $300 each. The Mentoring Community Workshop is $3200. with a free follow-up consultation.