Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Tuesday, September 21

Today's class was both about mastering the material described in Chapter 3: "Inside the Tutoring Session" - and about working on your next draft response essay - which is a response to this chapter.

Kate generously agreed to participate in a model session. I asked you to pay attention to the "moves" we made in the session - and to see which ones from our list on the board we actually talked through. We then talked about what you saw = and set you up to conduct your own sessions.

You started by doing some pre-writing - and then worked with a coach (or you were the coach). At the end of class you (briefly) reported back on how your sessions went. It sounded to me like you are making progress toward a focus (which part of the chapter you will write about= the summary part) - but that many of you are still struggling with what you have to say in response.
You might make moves similar to the moves you made in your response to the writing process - that is - you might respond by writing about how(from your perspective):
  • your focus is new to you and how it will help you be a better coach (or not)
  • your focus connects to other parts of the coaching process and why it helps to see the different parts as connected (or not)
  • your focus is (from your perspective) really the most important part of the coaching process and why
  • your focus is important to new coaches
  • etc
For Thursday:
Write: a response to Chapter 3.
Read: HTWA, Ch. 33&34. These chapters are short - and contain suggestions that can help you with revising your work (33) and with peer workshopping (34).

Good work today - and see you in class Thursday.


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