Add a new tool to your conferring toolbox: students' identity webs. Identity webs can help students bring more of themselves to their writing.
Tag: Reflective Practice
Three Ways to Make Student Growth Visible Across the Year
Young writers show tremendous growth each year, but sometimes lack the tools or the skills to see it. This year, be intentional about putting systems and routines into place that not only make this growth visible but also allow your students to push themselves in new directions.
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Exploring Identity in Writing Workshop
Read about how one school is working together to think about how to support students in exploring and bringing their identities into their writing.
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How to Be a Writing Influencer: Reflective Practice
Today, Jessica Carey shares how her experience helping others find their stories can help influence the curriculum and students seeing themselves as writers.
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A Close Look at Encoding: Reflective Practice
Practical tips for analyzing student writing with a lens of encoding.
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Reflecting on Reading Like a Writer
So I took some time to create a video about the system I created in order to track and reflect on my summer reading. Because I pushed myself to reflect in a new medium, I feel like I dug deeper into the work I've done with reading like a writer. (I hope it's not too… Continue reading Reflecting on Reading Like a Writer
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Classroom Management.
Since the first few weeks of my student teaching, classroom management hasn't been something I've struggled with. (Although I do struggle with the term.) The first week of my student teaching I planned a lab. Everything went smoothly, except clean up. The lab was a mess. Nothing was put away. Nothing was set for the next class… Continue reading Classroom Management.
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Big Picture Series: Conferring
“Teach the writer, not the writing.” – Lucy Calkins Do you ever feel exasperated by all of the errors you see in your students’ writing? The conference begins and before you know it you’ve given lots of useful advice on how to fix the writing. You look over and notice your student is completely… Continue reading Big Picture Series: Conferring
