Learning & Leading With Habits of Mind

External Voice Students hear an external voice of reflection in others’ comments, suggestions, assessments, evaluations, and fee ...

You might also consider reading student journals and noting how stu- dent reflections are developing. Keep a record for each stu ...

236 Wo n d e r i n g t o B e D o n e Steve Seidel 13 I remember meditating on these attached objects.... (feet and hands, especi ...

the benefits and difficulties of working with a protocol for examining children’s work, called collaborative assessment conferen ...

the workshop teachers, Elizabeth, asking how our work would translate into something positive for her students. Liz raised this ...

Wonder ing to Be Done 239 The Protocol Steps The collaborative assessment conference protocol has a series of distinct sections ...

Furthermore, most teachers rarely experience any form of structured and regular professional conversations about specific pieces ...

Throughout this conference, the issue of no punctuation, and the sub- sequent ambiguity of the phrasing in the piece, came up ti ...

dominant concern was over how to read the meaning of these words and phrases without any punctuation to guide the way. Here is t ...

“I noticed [something]... ,” I said. “I did this quickly counting on my fingers. There are four lines. I didn’t have to use my f ...

conference because it touches on so many issues that seem central to where the group had come by this point, our next-to-last se ...

In the midst of this interchange, Liz posed a question that I take as central to this whole enterprise. In essence, she asked, “ ...

Pam’s comments were followed by some silence, so Julie asked if there were any other thoughts about the process. I felt obliged ...

more meanings than they meant. It also has meanings for others that might be different. Their experience has made it one mean- i ...

nothing at all. To become engaged with something, it helps to have some, but not too much, familiarity with the subject. Like wo ...

So we begin by immersing ourselves in the text. It doesn’t always pay at first to know too much about the child who wrote it or ...

Responding to this interchange, Annette offered her perspective: “I felt a lot like Liz, that a lot of valuable time was wasted ...

In collaborative assessment conferences, the purpose of the reading is to investigate the meaning of the writing and the child’s ...

I came to understand that this kind of careful examination of “the actual work itself” can be a bit like stepping through Alice’ ...

is that they represent a range of concerns that cover many aspects of seri- ous professional development in the realm of teachin ...