Conferring Newsletter (EL)
Eden Prairie Teachers
All About Conferring
Conferring is the purposeful conversation teachers have with students to assess current skills and provide immediate and targeted instruction. The goal is to uncover a reader’s thinking, understandings or reflections, in order to teach to their current needs, and move them to independence as a reader.
Full Conference
The full conference is often 4-7 minutes and follows the steps listed below: research, compliment, teach and link.
Mini Conference
There are different types of mini conferences. These typically last 2-3 minutes and may reflect part of the full conference but not the entire process.
Record Keeping
It is important to document the work the students are doing during conferences.
Getting Started/Growing your Practice
If you are getting started with conferring or it is new to you, how might you get started? What do you need to have in place to get started?
If this is an established practice in your classroom, what is an area of growth for you at this time?
One way to get started from Teaching Channel