Student Conferencing

I think student conferencing is a great tool to use in your classroom not matter what subject it may be. Conferencing with students gives you one on one time with them and lets you really dive in deep into their writing and them as a person. However like we discussed today in class not all students are going to have a postive outcome when it deals with their writing. The scenarios demonstrated in class showed just how many students respond when you give them their writings back and/or want to talk about their writings. Many students get upset or defensive and we as teachers need to know how to handle those situations. The scenarios and then the discussions we had really helped me realize just how I would go about talking to a student in a situation like the ones shown today in class. We also watched a video on a writing workshop conference in the fourth grade. I love how the teacher gives a praise before she goes on to say something the student should fix or work on. To me this shows that you are really interested in that students work and builds the confidence as well as shows them ways they can improve.