I had students {90% were English Language Learners}who were not making adequate progress to reach grade-level by the end of the year. So I thought going over their report card to show they were failing would do the trick…wrong!!! To be truthful, standards-based report cards don’t mean much to parents who don’t understand what all the standards mean {collective nouns anybody}? I had to come up with another way to approach parents. Something that was meaningful and something they could take home and use.
So I created this Conference packet for us {myself and parents} to help us prepare for our conference. I wanted parents to be part of the planning process because I was tired of “talking at” parents and thought it should be a collaborative process between all of us. Plus, I wanted parents to feel like they were being heard and they weren’t just heading into a conference to be given a report card and then it would be over. I schedule our conferences with Sign Up Genius to get organized and then prep. my conference forms so I can get organized.
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Winter Pre-Conference form |
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Don’t write on this, give that responsibility to the parents to take notes. |
Thanks for this wonderful conference resource. I may look forward to conferences this time around. 🙂
Thank you so much for the incredible resources!
Marcy
Searching for Teacher Balance
Putting all scores and levels on one sheet is perfect. Thanks for sharing!
Liz
BeachTeach