I really enjoyed this chapter because it while reading it, it gave so many examples of things you could do as a teacher and the steps in how to do them. Being a list person and someone who always has a to-do list, I really liked the parts that talked about how to make long- and short-term plans for the writing workshop. I like knowing what is coming up, but also being flexible enough to change a plan if it isn't working out as planned. I think it will be really good to be able to put a vision down for a whole semester, including texts and what kind of prompts I want to use. One thing that seems like will be really tough about teaching is being organized and on-task enough to be prepared for each class and really know what is going on. I think plans like this will help tremendously, and I don't want to overlook that.
One thing that I find kind of frustrating in writing workshops is the limited amount of time that the teacher can spend with the student in conferencing. I want to try to figure out something that can help this, but I'm not sure what that would be? How do you give students enough time to talk about their work, with questions flowing in both directions, while still interacting with every student? It just doesn't seem feasible to give them all the time that they need. Hopefully I will be in a school with block-scheduling :)
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