Conferring Notes: Gathering Data Transcript
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Emma Coufal: So you're going to read the book to me, okay?
Jessica: "Bats, Bats, Bats."
Emma Coufal: Good pointing!
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Conferring Notes:
Gathering Data to Inform Instruction
Emma Coufal: So, Jessica, can you find the word "like." Can you show me where the word "like" is? Oh! You found it. Can you find it on the next page?
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Emma Coufal
Kindergarten Teacher
Think College New Elementary, Oakland CA
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Emma Coufel: I use conferring as a strategy to differentiate my instruction for all of my students. And this is especially important for language learners, because they might be coming in with a different level of print-- the concept of print, or understanding of books. They might need more help with vocabulary. They might need more help with site words. Everyone's coming in at such different levels. And conferring is that option that we have to differentiate for a student.
Student: Bears like flowers. Bears like trees.
Emma Coufel: Mm hm.
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Emma Coufel: When I'm taking notes in my conference, it's like I need a system that's like simple, and really manageable for me, or else I know that I'm not going to use it consistently. So what works well for me is I have my Reader's Workshop binder, and in it I have my toolkit. I have anything that I might need with the students, and then I have a sheet that has all their names on it. It has a little plus for what is the positive we focused on. TP, what is the Teaching Point that I pulled out.
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And it has a little space for notes at the bottom. So I'll write in the week that we're in, and I'll go to each student that week, and fill in their spot on that little chart.
Emma Coufel: Good job with your Picture Power! You guys go on a Snap Word Hunt, a Site Word Hunt, and find the word "we." Oh, you found it!
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Emma Coufel: I take those notes and I use them during literacy centers and my guided reading time. I'll go through and say, "Okay, my guided reading group needs to focus on this learning objective." Or I might say, "This, you know, huge section of the class is not getting something, I might need to reteach it." And when I have that data then I can go to my resources and say, "Okay, I've taught this student this lesson multiple times. How else can I teach it so that they can grasp it? So I take that data and use it to really propel students forward.
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Emma Coufel: So Brian, I think that what we're going to do is we're going to try and do a Level B, and see if you can do that. So I want to see if I have one in here.
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Emma Coufel: And I would say not just ELLs, I think generally not every student is going to grasp a whole class lesson every time. It's impossible to expect every student to grasp every lesson when you're teaching it whole class, because students learn differently.
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Emma Coufel: So Darrel, do you know what I think would be a really good idea, if you guys Echo Read it. So I want you to read it first. And then let Willow read the sentence.
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Darrel: "Who is under the pink umbrella?"
Willow: "Who is under the--"
Emma Coufel: So it's a lot of research for me about, okay, where are my kids, and what's that next step?
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Emma Coufel: High five! What great reading you're doing!
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25 Comments
LaBresha Small Dec 29, 2023 10:41pm
Joann Miller Sep 23, 2023 5:11pm
All students learn differently. Good to use reader workshop binder to be able to take notes for each student. Some students may need help with sight words or vocabulary, unless good notes are taken you will not know which students need more help than others. This will give you feedback as to what strategies work best and what you need to reteach in a different way. Pointing to words with a withes finger is fun and engaging way for the students to point to each word as they read them.
Tiffany Baltazar Sep 17, 2022 4:11pm
1. Ms. Coufal use conferences to differentiate her instruction by collecting data from individual studentsto see what are learning and what they help with.
2. Conferences are important for English Language Learners because it helps build connection with the students to see what growth they achieved and what they need most.
3.The tools Ms. Coufal bring to each conference is a reading binder with a checklist that she uses to recall data and make notes that are negative and postive.
Jessa Marie Itliong Jun 30, 2020 7:53pm
This strategy is great as it gives the teacher individual time with the student. It's a great way to establish a connection with the student while finding out what their needs are. It also lets you evaluate how effective your teaching was with the entire class and look to what you need to fix or change.
What if you try different strategies to teach a certain lesson and it continues to fail to click with the student? What would you do by then?
Julio Jacobo-Ma... Jun 29, 2020 11:33am
Ms. Coufal use conferences to differentiate her instruction with her ELL students by asking questions about the reading and get an idea about the English proficiency of the student. These conferences are very important to the ELL students because they get the 1 on 1 attention and they feel confident speaking up to the teacher as oppose to the entire class. Ms. Coufal brings her readers workshop binder with any tools she may need for the students along with a sheet to take notes and write down the positive and the teaching point she will focus on for the next time she meets with them. I like how she uses her data in the literacy centers and guided reading time to determine how she can better support her students.