Q&A with Carol Miller Lieber on Making Learning REAL

Q: Personal academic conferencing with students sounds like a good idea, but how and when do I do it?

A: One way to make it possible to provide personal academic conferencing with individual students is to train all of the students in your class to work independently so you can work one-to-one with individual students while others are engaged in their own work. If you plan to bookend the week on Monday and Friday so there are extended periods for independent or group project work time, you can be providing support and academic conference check ins on a regularly scheduled basis with all students. See Appendix A in Making Learning REAL for a variety of strategies for student conferencing.