2025-02-25 - Social Conferences

Question 1

Steps of Social Conferences

Answer 1

Establish what Teacher and Student Notice

Name the problem and need to solve it

Understand the problem

Generate alternatives

Establish an agreement to tryS

Question 2

Step 1 of Social Conferences

Answer 2

Establish what the teacher and student notice

Teacher:
Notice positive things

Notice things that don’t work

Ask what student notices

Question 3

Step 2 & 3of Social Conferences

Answer 3

2. Name the problem

Teacher and student receive and acknowledge a problem.

3. Understanding the problem

Teacher:
Could it be…? questions to help student recognize and understand possible cause of problem

Question 4

Step 4 & 5 of social conferences

Answer 4

4. Generate alternatives
   - two or three strategies that might make a difference
5. Establish agreement to try
   - Agreement to try strategies in writing or fistbump. A time will be set to evaluate progress

Question 5

General rules of social conferences

Answer 5

Kind, businesslike manner

Speak to student in private

Be prepared to propose some options, accept options from student

Be prepared to end conference if student becomes defensive

Keep as short as possible

Focus on solving immediate problems

Question 6

Why do we ask students what they notice?

Answer 6

To encourage them to examine their own behaviour

Name the behaviour without finding fault, blaming, or judging.