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Hierarchy of Possible Writing Goals - J. Serravello

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Hierarchy of Possible Writing Goals - J. Serravello

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1) Find your name in attached folder.
2) Use rubric to self-assess.
3) Share in small group.

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Reading and Writing Workshop in International Schools

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Reading and Writing Workshop in International Schools

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Great group focused on literacy in International Schools!

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Biggest take-away?
Hopes for our learning together?

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Great examples of conferring and tips.

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From A Teacher's Guide to Writing Conferences of The Classroom Essentials Series
Invite students to have a real give-and-take with you.

Even though in conferences you're a teacher talking to students, you're also a (more experienced) writer talking to (less experienced) fellow writers about what writers do-come up with topics, make a plan for a piece of writing, write a lead, develop a section
with detail, use commas in a series, and so on. In this give and take, you learn about what students are trying to do as writers and how well they're doing it, and the students learn how they can do their work better.

Speak in a conversational tone.

Tone is the foundation of the good relationships you want to develop with students over the course of the school year. Speaking in a warm, friendly manner puts students at ease and makes it more likely they will talk with you about what they're trying to do as writers. What you learn from this talk helps you assess students and decide what you should teach to help them grow.

Sit alongside students, at their eye level.

How you sit with students helps you establish a positive tone in conferences. You might grab a nearby empty seat or sit on one that you carry with you around the classroom. As you sit, it's important to make frequent eye contact with students and make sure that your
facial expressions show an interest in what students are telling you.

Use "active listening" strategies.

For example, give some wait time after asking a question so that students have the time and space they need to come up with a response. Ask students to "say more" about what they tell you. And repeat what children say to check that you're hearing them correctly.
Using these strategies shows that you have a real interest in what students are saying and that you're really trying to understand them. Students will usually respond by talking to you more.

The goal of a writing conference is to teach students something about writing that they can use in the future. If you add to students' writing repertoires in every conference, they become better writers over time.

Learn more at Heinemann.com

Carl Anderson is one of the nation's leading experts on teaching writing to students in grades K-12. He dedicates his energies exclusively as an education consultant and writer.

Carl recently worked for Teachers College Reading and Writing Project at Columbia University as a Lead Staff Developer, providing staff development in the teaching of writing grades K-8. He spent school days in New York City elementary and middle schools demonstrating effective teaching in the writing workshop and coaching teachers. He gave day-long workshops for teachers at Teachers College on launching the writing workshop, conferring with student writers, mini-lessons, and developing curriculum for the writing workshop.

Carl is the author of numerous books including the bestselling How's It Going? A Practical Guide to Conferring with Student Writers, as well as Assessing Writers and the series Strategic Writing Conferences: Smart Conversations that Move Young Writers Forward Grades 3-6.

His latest book, A Teacher's Guide to Writing Conferences, is part of the Classroom Essentials series. Full of classroom video, the book helps teachers understand the underlying principles and reasons for conferring with students, and how to make writing conferences a part of teachers' daily routines.

Follow Carl on Twitter @ConferringCarl

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The goal of a writing conference is to teach students something about writing that they can use in the future. If you add to students' writing repertoires in every conference, they become better writers over time.

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Goal-setting conference - G1 Writing

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Goal Setting Conference -- Writing -- First Grade

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What moves are you already making? What moves might you lift up?

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Common Patterns for 3-8 Writers - Carl Anderson

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Common Patterns for 3-8 Writers - Carl Anderson

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Compliment conferences help enhance our writing community and build confidence in our writers.
Hope to create sustainable methods for recording data from conferences.

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Take away for compliments: Focusing on the: what, how, and why this specific comment is important to their learning. Hopes: To find ways to make conferring and feedback more fluid.

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-I am looking forward to trying a conference with a writer and my teaching partner. :)

- Hoping to gain confidence in knowing what to use as my "coaching point" and to ensure that the strategies focused on will be transferred to that student's writing future pieces

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Compliment conferences help build the self-esteem of our writers and encourages them to keep challenging themselves in their writing while focusing on specifics. Looking forward to improving on making time for each individual student. :)

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Take away - doing conferences with my IA together and giving compliments together in the beginning.
Hope to learn how to balance feedback - verbal vs. nonverbal and continuously follow up with students.

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Compliment conferences are not only for a specific student, but for those students around that hear the compliment as well.

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Compliment conferences are not only for a specific student, but for those students around that hear the compliment as well.

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My hope is that I can organize a sustainable system for conferencing with my students. My take away is the compliment conference. I do these, but realized that by doing it at the beginning, it  will also help me pre-assess their knowledge of persuasive writing.

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Takeaway - Synchronizing with co-teachers on the end-goal and current progress can improve our understanding and work for students.
Hope - strategies for students that the first conference doesn't reach/impact

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Sharing what they think and how they want to share it might help them start writing a little deeper and longer and they will only know if I tell them consistently the expectations.

Be creative to find a time to confer with students independently when you just see them daily for half an hour: challenging...

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Compliment conferences support the writer to feel empowered and repeat the skill.

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Compliment conferences support the writer to feel empowered and repeat the skill.

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Hopes - Can we get feedback on how we are conferring - how are we doing as conferring teachers? Are we making an impact?

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Being specific with your compliments.
Trying to conferences as a team, make sure both are on the same page.

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Compliment Conferences go a long way!

-I am looking forward to trying a conference with a writer and my teaching partner. :)

- Hoping to gain confidence in knowing  what to use as my "coaching point" and to ensure that the strategies focused on will be transferred to that student's writing  future pieces

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Biggest take-away ...
Wants and/or wonderings ...

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Research, Decide, Teach
Compliment
Coaching
Goal-setting
Partnership

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Please add in any tools or routines you've designed so we can learn from each other!

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Please add in any tools or routines you've designed so we can learn from each other!

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Students can write their goal for the session on a jamboard or do their sign up for a strategy session. Sarah suggested a cool idea where strong writers volunteer to lead a strategy group.

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Gots: utilizing padlets for toolkits! love this!

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Takeaways - Padlet/Google Doc strategy videos toolkit and how to empower our writers more
Wonderings- ways to make our routines sustainable so we are interacting with our writers on a constant basis

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My takeaway--Toolkits!  They look fun, engaging, and the way to go.  I can't wait to have grade-level time so we can work together to create these.  :)

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Take-away: empower the writer
Wonderings: what are some structures, routines, and resources to support writing partners. (Pitfalls to avoid would be great to know too!)

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G5 Great Brain Revising Tool / Menu  (Colleen's Copy)

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Informational Writing

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Informational Writing