As due dates for those scaffolded writing projects come due, many of us are holding writing conferences with our students. This article by Paul Hanstedt in
The Teaching Professor provides his fresh approach to this process that get his student actively engaged in the conference. He requires students to take out a notebook and make three lists:
- everything you already know you’re going to change
- everything you’re thinking about changing but aren’t sure about;
- any questions you have for him
He found that thee conferences were less work, students paid greater attention, and the papers got better.