Why come
This two-day workshop will explore the how-to’s of having effective writing conferences with students. Participants will learn new ways of thinking about writing conferences, and practical conferring strategies that they will be able to put into practice as soon as they return to their classrooms.
Registration
Individuals:
Early Bird Rate: 450 Euros (register by 18 September, 2018)
Standard Rate: 500 Euros (register by 5 November, 2018)
Groups (3 or more):
Group Early-bird rate: 400 Euros (register by 18 September, 2018)
Group Standard rate: 450 Euros (register by 5 November, 2018)
Workshop details
Who is it for
Teachers, literacy coaches and principals who work with students in grades K-8.
Workshop goals
The workshop will focus on key conferring concepts, the teacher’s role in a writing conference, and strategies for helping students play an active role in conferences.
Topics that will be discussed will include:
Why it’s essential to confer with student writers
Conferring principles
The three parts of a writing conference
Strategies for supporting student talk in conferences
Common patterns in student writing and how to respond to them in conferences
Effective teaching in conferences
Using mentor texts to teach in conferences
Conference record-keeping systems that are tools for setting and tracking our writing goals for students
Throughout the workshop, participants will see and discuss videos of writing conferences with students that will give them a clear image of effective conferring. Participants will also role-play common conference scenarios.
Schedule
8:00 – 8:30 Light breakfast (arrival/registration)
8:30 – 10:30 Session
10:30 – 11:00 Morning break
11:00 – 12:30 Session
12:30 – 13:15 Lunch
13:15 – 14:30 Session
14:30 – 15:00 Afternoon break
15:00 – 16:00 Session
Featured speaker
Carl Anderson
Writing teacher
Carl Anderson is one of the leading experts on teaching writing to students in grades K-12 in the United States. Carl was first an elementary and then a middle school teacher. In 1994, Carl joined the Teachers College Reading and Writing Project at Columbia University, where he was Lead Staff Developer.
Carl is the author of three Heinemann books, How’s It Going? A Practical Guide to Conferring With Student Writers (2000), Assessing Writers(2005), as well as a new book on conferring with student writers coming out in Fall 2018.
Today, Carl works as a consultant in schools across the United States and internationally.