Conferring

In his years of teacher workshops, author Patrick Allen has heard it all: ''I don''t have time! ''I don''t know what questions to ask! ''I don''t know what to write in my notes, it''s too hard! In his book Conferring: The Keystone of Reader''s Workshop, Allen argues that the benefits of conferring outweigh the challenges and that teachers must put forth the effort of learning how to do it well. ...