It seems we all use the 7 habits and begin with the end in mind is definetley a biggie related to student work. My MT is an expert at modeling what the ending product should look like. I think with the set up of the writers notebook, allowing them to learn multiple styles of writing my MTs classroom will only further build towards what Routman would like a class to look like. In my classroom we also do a lot of celebrating the students writing. We do this by both sharing aloud as well as gallery walks where the students walk around all the tables and look at other students work. I do know that further into the school year we will do more of the publishing that Routman talked about in these chapters.
As of now it is hard for me to determine if there will be a dilemma with time constraints. The students are still at an instructional level in the gradual release model. I think once they become more independent there may be the opportunity to conference individually with multiple students a day. As much as conferences was stressed in the reading, it was also stressed that conferencing can take many different forms. With the length of student writing samples at the first grade level, it does seem manageable to conference with multiple students a day when they get to a more independent level.
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