Conferencing and Reporting is full of practical ways for teachers to involve students in their own assessment. The authors provide different ways for students to take part in conferences and demonstrate their own learning. The end result is improved learning, as students are participants not bystanders. This book includes:

• Classroom ideas
• Cross curricular examples
• Fourteen ways to involve students in their own assessment
• Responses to commonly asked questions
• Blackline masters

Conferencing and Reporting is the third book in Knowing What Counts, a series for middle and secondary school teachers who want to involve their students in assessment and evaluation.

For a comprehensive lesson plan on how to use this book in your next professional development session, download the following conversations:

Involving Students in Communicating Their Learning (C&R)
Student-Parent-Teacher Conferences (C&R)

If you have Adobe Acrobat Reader 8.0 or higher you can access and use the following fillable and printable Blackline Masters - valuable resources for both teachers and students to use in the classroom:

Dear parents/guardians... (C&R)
Headline byline... (C&R)
Strengths and accomplishments... (C&R)
Teacher Summary Sheet (C&R)