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Thursday, March 1, 2012

Student Led Conferences - SOLC 1


Tonight is parent teacher conference night. I love being able to talk to parents and collaborate with them to ensure their child's success. Our school did it a little different this time. We participated in student led conferences. We as teacher's took a back seat and the student shared with their parent how the class worked. They discussed their strengths and weaknesses. They even showed their parents their agendas.
I really enjoyed listening to the students explain themselves to their parents. The comments I heard were touching, funny, and encouraging. For the most part the kids took pride in their accomplishments and let their parents know how they could do better. I was sceptical about this whole process at first but now I believe it was a good experience. We always want our students to take responsibility for their learning. I can finally say that several of them did that tonight. I am super proud of our Warriors and look forward to seeing how student led conferences progress in the future.

5 comments:

  1. My daughter's 7th grade class did student led conferences. The teacher was in the room as were several other families. Our daughter's time was at the same time as another student, a young man who hadn't been doing his work and he was being called to task by his parents....it's been many years and I still remember the awkwardness of the situation!

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  2. I am such a fan of student led conferences! Glad to hear you had a positive experience in your first run.

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  3. Glad it went well! It was definitely a full night! Have fun slicing!!! (A fellow teacher down the hall, and then another hall, and then another hall.)

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  4. I'm glad you found time for writing, even with the extra hours at school. Thanks for taking the Slice challenge. :)
    Ruth

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  5. Welcome aboard! Glad the conferences went well. Looking forward to your slicing posts. :)

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