encouraging effective peer conferencing
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Encouraging Effective Peer Conferencing. Things to Think About Aija Simmons [email protected]. Time. Initially conferences go quickly however as students get used to talking and have longer drafts time will need to be adjusted - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Encouraging Encouraging Effective Peer Effective Peer ConferencingConferencing
Encouraging Encouraging Effective Peer Effective Peer ConferencingConferencing
Things to Think About Things to Think About Aija Simmons Aija Simmons
[email protected]@gmail.com
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Time• Initially conferences go quickly however as
students get used to talking and have longer drafts time will need to be adjusted
• Block out a long enough time from the beginning to accommodate longer conferences
• Mini lesson or model/ conferencing/ debrief• Shorten the mini lesson and debrief as
students get better
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Time Keeping• Train students to use a self monitoring
system for conferences• Allow students to decide when to
change partners• Provide training for what partners
should do when they finish conferencing before the other students
• Immediate revision is encouraged
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Practice• It takes time (lots of it)• Students will need encouragement not to give
up• It is helpful to join conferences with a short
piece of your own writing • Training on interviewing or talk show hosting
during occasional community building activities are helpful
• Playing talk show and hosting an author who just published a book is a fun way to get students to practice engaging in conversation about another classmate’s writing
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Community• Think early about the kind of writing
community you desire• Build in opportunities across the curriculum
that will support the kind of discourse you would like to see during conferencing
• Initially it may be helpful for students to choose their own conferencing partner it eases tension around sharing and critique
• Encourage sharing and talking throughout every stage of the writing
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Posture• Set up very clear procedures for what
materials students should have and how you expect their bodies to look during conferencing
• Knee to knee/ face to face/ elbow to elbow etc
• Procedure for determining who goes first
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Modeling• Teacher led one on one• Teacher led whole class w debrief• Teacher as student • Students fish bowl
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Mini lesson Ideas• How to get my partner to elaborate• The information of a question• What do I do with the positive comment• How do I ask a question about my own writing…what
do I want to know• Add more detail….Is that helpful• What if I don’t get the point • If were just talking about the event and not the
writing are we on task• Do we have to use these words• A reader’s eye ……..
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Accountability• Students need some form of
accountability • Students turn in conference sheets
along with drafts and pre-writes• A simple conferencing rubric for
self monitoring may also be helpful