Conferencing
Walvoord,
Helping Students Write Well
Conferencing has a few major advantages:
- Watching expressions
and exchanging dialogue allows you to tell whether the student understands
what you say
- Getting past the
coldness of "red ink"
- Modeling the revision process
Three Guidelines for Effective Conferencing:
- The teacher should seize the opportunity to engage the student in a fuller and more personal discussion of the paper than would be possible by means of written comments.
- The teacher should let the student share the reading and evaluating process.
- After reading the
paper carefully and sharing your impressions, make what in a written
evaluation would be a final comment: analyze, summarize, and indicate
priorities.
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