- Conferencing is not about editing: do not EDIT their ideas or their paper
- Conferencing is leading the author in a meaningful direction toward his/her most effective writing
- Conferencing was more productive when we had the writing in hard copy during the second reading. Readers could clarify just where there was confusion or an unwanted shift, and writers could refer back to the mark-ups during revision.
- Conferences should be motivating
- We are looking beyond the product at the writer and his/her process (Calkins)
- We need to be fully present as a listener
- Identify strategies that might help the writer instead of one-shot solutions (Calkins)
- Sometimes writers with “nothing to say” just need to be mobilized. You can discuss pre-writing strategies later.
- Conferences are just conversations
- There are various types of conferences: Content, Design, Process and Evaluation
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I love your number one! Conferencing is not about editing! It's about the writer not the writing. This is such a crucial concept, but so hard because this is all I have ever known.
ReplyDelete...do not EDIT their IDEAS.
ReplyDeleteThat's a killer, and oh so easy to do. Good reminder. The red pen is more deadly than the sword.
...do not EDIT their IDEAS
ReplyDeleteOuch! and oh so easy to do. The red pen is more deadly than the sword.
Very clear and concise list. Bravo!
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