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Student-Teacher Conferences, Karen K. Johnson
Student-Teacher Conferences, Karen K. Johnson
Graduate Research Papers
The purpose of this study is to investigate the rationale for implementing student-teacher conferencing in a language arts program as one means of promoting the teacher as a child-advocate. It will review the many functions of conferences including assessing literacy, nurturing self-esteem, promoting positive attitudes toward language arts, and individualizing instruction and will consider ways to implement student-teacher conferences as part of the instructional program.
Assessing Children's Emerging Literacy Through Anecdotal Records, Reva R. Arends
Assessing Children's Emerging Literacy Through Anecdotal Records, Reva R. Arends
Graduate Research Papers
Implementing the whole language concept into an instructional program involves a change in the assessment of student growth. With the focus on student involvement in the language processes to nurture language abilities, the traditional formal measures, usually standardized tests, are inappropriate. They report in quantitative terms a child's mastery of language fragments. Little information is acquired about how a child creates meaning within the structure of a whole unit--a story or poem