Carl Anderson

Conferring with Student Writers and its

Role in Assessment

Grades K-8

May 17, 2008

 

 

 

 

 

Carl has just finished a new firsthand series for Heinemann. He will spend the day helping us understand the importance and techniques of conferring. Carl will also address conferring concepts, the teacher's role in a writing conference and managing conferring in the classroom. He will conclude by showing our audience how to look at students’ writing and discuss the most effective way of conferring based on this assessment.

 

Carl Anderson is a Literacy consultant who works in elementary and secondary schools across the United States and Canada. Carl worked as a classroom teacher, and then as the Lead Staff Developer at the Teachers College Reading and Writing Project at Columbia University. Carl is the author of How’s It Going? and Assessing Writers (Heinemann) and the forthcoming Coaching Writers: 100+ Key Conferences for Grades 3-6 (Heinemann Firsthand, spring 2008).

Baum & Beaulieu Associates, Inc.

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