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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Modeling• Teacher led one on one• Teacher led whole class w debrief• Teacher as student • Students fish bowl
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 ……..
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