One-Day Workshop:
Conferring with Student Writers

Presented by Carl Anderson

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Overview

Teachers all over the United States have read How's It Going?: A Practical Guide to Conferring With Student Writers and learned how to confer with students about their writing. Drawing from this book, and Carl's new firsthand series, Strategic Writing Conferences: Smart Conversations That Move Young Writers Forward, this workshop will help participants develop essential understandings about conferring and translate these understandings into effective classroom practice.

Through explanations, stories, classroom video clips, samples of student work, and participant interaction, Carl will show how to have writing conferences with students that help them grow as writers.

PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS

• What is a writing conference?
  We'll answer this question by discussing five fundamental conferring conferences.
• What do writing conferences look and sound like?
  Participants will have the opportunity to observe Carl confer with students onclassroom videos.
• What do we do when we confer with students?
  We'll discuss the teacher's role in a writing conference, and practical strategies for having successful conferences.
• How do we use assessment to confer well with students?
  Carl will talk about how to link our day-to-day assessment of student writers to writing conferences.
• What kind of conferences should we have with students?
  We'll discuss several common conferences and how to build a repertoire of conferences over time.
• How do we keep records of our conferences?
  Carl will discuss why record-keeping matters, and show participants several useful record-keeping forms.
• How can I make conferring work in my classroom?
  Carl will talk about the qualities of classrooms in which conferring goes smoothly day after day.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

Elementary teachers (2–8), middle school teachers, administrators, curriculum coordinators, literacy specialists, and staff developers.

TIME

8:30 A.M.-3:00 P.M.

TUITION

The cost of this workshop is $219.00 per person. If you register 3 or more participants at the same time the cost is $209.00 per person.