Conferences and Conversations: Listening to the Literate Classroom

by Douglas Kaufman

Book Overview

It takes courage to open up your professional life to scrutiny, but that's exactly what Linda Rief did when she allowed Doug Kaufman to observe her classroom over the course of a school year. His goal was to discover what exactly Linda does that makes her such an extraordinary teacher - specifically, how she converses with students and promotes their conversations among one another. Conferences & Conversations is a record of what Kaufman learned,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0325002711
• ISBN13: 9780325002712
• Release Date: September 2000
• Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 12 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 6 to 10

Customer Reviews

A framework for conferencing

Conferencing with students about their work is the most effective way to move students' writing, but running conferences can be elusive. Reading this book is like ease dropping into Linda's conferences with her students. We leave gaining a framework of how to conduct effective conferences and best-practices of conferring with young adults. If you can bear the slow first few chapters, you'll be blessed with great transcripts of different conferences in latter chapters.