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Just like the other conferences I began this one with the question, “Tell me what you are working on today as a writer?” It became clear to me that the student in this clip was debating between two different topics to write more about. At that point, I decided to explain what my purpose was for being there during the conference stating to the student, “ I’m here today to help you decide what your topic will be so you can write more about it. “This really helped the student and I focus during the conference. By the end of the conference, he had his topic that he was going to write more on. I made sure this was a topic he was comfortable writing more about. I think that it is important students make those decisions, so they have “buy in” with the workshop format.

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Myers has a writer's conference during writer's workshop.	(mm:ss)
Just like the other conferences I began this one with the question, “Tell me what you are working on today as a writer?” It became clear to me that the student in this clip was debating between two different topics to write more about. At that point, I decided to explain what my purpose was for being there during the conference stating to the student, “ I’m here today to help you decide what your topic will be so you can write more about it. “This really helped the student and I focus during the conference. By the end of the conference, he had his topic that he was going to write more on. I made sure this was a topic he was comfortable writing more about. I think that it is important students make those decisions, so they have “buy in” with the workshop format. To save this video to desktop, read below. To open this movie as a "standalone" file using QuickTime or Windows Media player, follow these instructions. Save the file to your desktop. PC USERS: Right-click the red link above, "save target as," and save the video to your desktop. MAC USERS: Option-click on the red link above, "save link as," and save the video to your desktop. Go to your desktop, where the file has been saved. Click on the file icon to play it in your standalone media player (either QuickTime or Windows Media player). As you view the file in the standalone media player, you will be able to view the times of the clip. For offline viewing, use the windows media versions of the videos.