A Teacher’s Guide to Writing Conferences
Classroom Essentials
Grade Level: K – 8th
How’s It Going?
A Practical Guide to Conferring with
Student Writers
Grade Level: 2nd – 8th
Assessing Writers
Grade Level: 3rd – 8th
Carl Anderson is an internationally recognized expert in the teaching of writing for grades K-8. He works as a consultant in schools and districts around the world, and is a longtime staff developer for the Teachers College Reading and Writing Project. Carl is the author of numerous books on teaching writing, including the new A Teacher’s Guide to Writing Conferences, the best-selling How’s It Going? A Practical Guide to Conferring with Student Writers, Assessing Writers, and Strategic Writing Conferences: Smart Conversations that Move Young Writers Forward.
Carl began his career in education as a teacher in elementary and middle schools in the Bronx, New York, Bardstown, Kentucky, and Northbrook, Illinois.
Carl is also known for being an avid fan of the Beatles, and his love for coaching little league baseball in Brooklyn, New York, where he lives with his family.
The blog entry is titled, “Conferring is Differentiated Instruction: How to Hold Student Writing Conferences.” www.hmhco.com/blog/conferring-is-differentiated-instruction-how-to-hold-student-writing-conferences
Check out the article I wrote for the May, 2019, issue of NCTE’s Voices from the Middle, “Let’s Put Conferring in the Center of Writing Instruction.” http://secure.ncte.org/library/NCTEFiles/Resources/Journals/VM/0264-may2019/VM0264May19Lets.pdf?_ga=2.109403909.1014526142.1564238265-1663096704.1561994687
Katie Wood Ray, Jennifer Serravallo and I did a podcast, “Modeling Conferences as Conversations.” In the style of NPR’s Terry Gross, Katie asks Jen and I some great questions about conferring with students. https://blog.heinemann.com/on-the-podcast-modeling-conferences-as-conversations
Check out this wonderful recap of my recent #G2Great twitter chat, by Jenn Hayhurst! literacylenses.com/2018/10/g2great-with-carl-anderson-10-18-18-a-teachers-guide-to-writing-conferences-k-8-classroom-essentials/
Check out this recent Heinemann podcast in which I discuss A Teacher’s Guide to Writing Conferences: https://blog.heinemann.com/a-teachers-guide-to-writing-conferences-a-podcast-with-carl-anderson
I love this recent Heinemann podcast, “What is a Writing Conference?”, which includes a wonderful video dramatizing my very first writing conference in 1987. Hint: It was a disaster! https://blog.heinemann.com/what-is-a-writing-conference.
There have been several recent Heinemann blog posts about A Teacher’s Guide to Writing Conferences, “Inviting students to Talk About Their Writing,” at https://blog.heinemann.com/inviting-students-to-talk-about-their-writing, and “What Makes a Good Writing Conference,” at https://blog.heinemann.com/what-makes-a-good-writing-conference. Both blog posts contain links video of me conferring with students!
Stacey Shubitz of Two Writing Teachers recently posted her review of A Teacher’s Guide to Writing Conferences, as well as a Q & A with me. You can read them both at https://twowritingteachers.org/2018/10/05/conferringwithcarlanderson/.
Fantastic conference today on conferring with writers in the classroom— packed with a balance of theory and actionable steps led by @ConferringCarl 👏🏻👏🏻
“There is no gene for good conferring... it’s not magical... it’s a lot of hard work over a lot of years.” @ConferringCarl on learning refining the art of drawing kids into meaningful conversations about their writing.
