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Use these tips to support your teachers in improving their conferences, record keeping, and assessments
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| Tips to Support Teachers
in Ongoing Assessment |
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Ongoing assessment is a key component of successful writing workshop classrooms. Assessing students? needs
across various stages of the writing process is crucial to helping them become proficient writers. Conferences
are one of the best opportunities teachers have to individually assess and support student writers.
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- Ask teachers how their conferencing is going. Asking teachers about their conferencing will help
them know that you value ongoing assessment and want to support them in their efforts.
- If you are feeling brave and want to make a big impact, ask a teacher if you can give
conferencing a try in his or her classroom.
- Teachers sometimes struggle with knowing what to ask or how to support individual writers? needs. Devote a short period of time during faculty meetings to Ongoing Assessement. Invite teachers to share tips and suggestions for improving conferencing and record keeping.
- Create partnerships between teachers so that they can arrange to talk about how their
conferences are going and possibly visit each other?s classroom during conference time.
- Provide teachers with a variety of resources to support their ongoing assessment. Give them copies
of the materials available in this newsletter. How?s It Going? by Carl Anderson is one additional resource you might consider.
- Ask a teacher or teachers who are confident in this area to make a presentation during a
faculty meeting.
- Try making ongoing assessment part of your yearlong school discussion. Spend 10-15 minutes of
each faculty meeting looking at student work. In small groups or as a whole faculty, look
at work samples and teachers? observations and invite teachers to dialogue about the students?
strengths and weaknesses.
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