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[|Common Errors in English]Paul Brians Wait Time

Great classroom assessment tool Focussed correction

[|Turn it in] for checking plagarism online and lots of other cool stuff Fake Reading -- Collective Peer Edit google docs different color pen to edit--sign back in that color pen to tell who is who--is each looking for a specific mistake? [|Mem Fox]

Biggest influence on teachers is the teachers they have had

Focus Check: "What is your paper about" Show me where it is about that? Quick 3 minute check at the beginning of first round of writing

Test, and Grades, and Assessment are not the same thing--Assessment is ongoing, Test and Grade is what they have done

Difference between being a student and a writer--student finishes assignments and turns them in, writer creates new things, takes risks, tries something new

Get school out of writing instruction will help our students become writer

To teach writing be a writer

Portfolios -- collection, selection, reflection What is the difference between portfolios and papers in a folder--not grade on individual papers, grading a body of work

When a paper has a grade on it, the majority of the comments are justifying the grade

How we read student writing is important--It is less important what we make of student writing than that we make something principled, of it.

What does the writer need to know now?

[|Free eportfolios]