A Test and Some Conferencing Practice

by | Aug 26, 2011 | Update

Second and fourth periods had their parts of speech review test. The glazed eyes and moans suggested students felt they’d done poorly on the test, but my initial evaluations indicate they may be exaggerating a bit. First and sixth periods had a bit more work...
Birmingham, Sharing, and 1.1

Birmingham, Sharing, and 1.1

by | Jan 5, 2011 | English 8, English I Honors, Update

First period  continued with the writing focus experiment. We added sharing into our daily writing workshop focus. It was the first peer conferencing session, so it was far from perfect, but we did well: Students got feedback and had an opportunity to perform a...

Modeling and Revising

by | Sep 29, 2009 | Update

First and seventh periods had a great: Ms. Woods, our District Instructional Facilitator (DIF) and a former English teacher herself, came into the classroom today to model with me what peer conferencing looks like. We’ve been trying to do it for the past couple...