How to Become a Better Writing Teacher Book Study

 This month K-5 Coaches and Educational Service staff have began to explore the text How to Become a Better Writing Teacher by Carl Anderson and Matt Glover.  The purpose of this book study is to expand ideas and ways to support our staff in writing instruction as well as plan future professional development.  Today we discussed Chapter 1 and 2.  Here were a few takeaways from our discussion for all to reflect and grow from:

If you are interested in seeing writing conferring in action check out this Conferring Video Link.

A few possible record keeping documents that were shared in the chapters are below.  Record keeping is essential during writing conferring.  Check out the various ways to keep records during conferences. 

How should I take notes on conferences?  There are MANY tools for note-taking, but you will need to find one that works for you.  Check out some examples below (taken from A Teacher's Guide to Writing Conferences):

Interested in watching some Carl Anderson conferring videos?  Login to your Heineman account and use the code, CECONWRIT.”  If you’d like a copy of the book, A Teacher’s Guide to Writing Conferences by Carl Anderson, swing by the coaches’ office.

We are also looking to update our Kaneland reels.  If you have student samples of any writing genre that you would like to submit for the update, please PDF or send hard copies of the student work to Sarah Mumm.

Please feel free to work with any Instructional Coach for follow up to these topics or any writing support or sounding board ideas.