Speaker Presentation from the UNO MET Link K-8 Literacy Conference - April 20, 2013.

1. The Teacher’s Role
Presented By:
Cynthia Bailey
Helen Lykke-Wisler

2. Objective
Participants will understand the
4 roles of a teacher during
writer’s workshop.
Understanding will support
structure and planning for the
writer’s workshop.

3. Today’s Agenda
 Teacher as Planner
 Teacher as Model
 Teacher as Coach
 Teacher as Assessor

4. Teacher as Planner
 Room Set Up:
• Materials
• Schedules
• Designated Work Areas

5. One way to track Status of the Class…

6. On your clipboard…
Student Name Prewritin
g
Writing Editing Revisin
g
Editin
g
Revisin
g
Publishin
g
Sharing
Status of the Class

7. Long-Term Planning
What genres will you teach?
When will you teach these genres?
How will you teach these genres?
How will you incorporate the six traits?
Show year long plan

8. Helen’s Year-Long Plan
 August
 •Launching Writer's Workshop
 •writing process
 •review of 6 traits
 September
 •Memoir
 •Mentor Author: Patricia Polocco
 •Trait Focus: Ideas and
Content/Organization/Voice/Conventions

9. Getting to Know Your Students
Interest inventories (pages 5-6)
Baseline assessments
 assessment for learning/teaching
 using a rubric
Student/teacher correspondence

10. Getting Started…
Introduce the writing process
• Writing cycle
• Building stamina
• Songs and chants

11. Teacher as Model
 Teacher models his/her own writing and
thinking process
 Non-models
 Writing buddies
 Sharing writing (author’s chair, peer
conferences, read-arounds)

12. How to Use Your Resources
Posters
Graphic organizers
Children’s literature

13. Teachers As Coaches
 How children internalize the qualities of writing:
 I hear about it
 I see it when you point it out
 I can recognize it myself in someone else’s work and
appreciate it
 I can try it on my own
 I can use it successfully

14. Teacher as Coach: Small Group
Conferencing
What do we want each student to
learn?
How will we know when each student
has learned it?
How will we respond when a student
experiences difficulty in learning?
How will we respond when the
students experience success?

15. Teacher as Coach: Techniques
for Small Group Conferencing
Compliment and connect
Introduce a teaching point
Coach while the students are with you
Link the work to the writing process

16. Peer as Coach
Peer conferencing
procedure
checklist(s)

17. Teachers As Assessors
 Think through and identify important target
skills and strategies to assess
 Make expectations and criteria for
assessment clear to student
 Enhance students’ understanding of the
elements of good writing
 Nudge children to grow as writers

18. Teacher as Assessor
Rubrics and checklists for students to
use
peer assessment
self assessment

19. Using Assessments to Form
Needs-Based Groups
Use observational checklists to focus
on a particular skill
Use feedback from student self-
assessment to focus on a particular
skill
Use scores on rubrics to form needs-
based groups

20. 3, 2, 1+1
On your graphic organizer, please list:
3 things you learned today
2 things you’d like to try
1 question you still have
+1 thing you might need in order to get
started