Look at these parent /
teacher conferences tools to find creative ways to make your conferences more successful and meaningful.
Not exact matches
These family
conferences are a great
tool for our
teachers to get to know their students and their families better.
Now he speaks at
conferences and works with
teachers in schools, leading professional development around ideas such as the Flipped Learning Classroom, Blended Learning and the effective use of ICT
tools.
If you have any tips or tricks about getting ready for parent -
teacher conferences, please leave them in the comments below so that we can all add more
tools to our belt.
In England, Tom Bennett,
teacher journalist and blogger, has been worrying at this for some time and is beginning to address the issue with a series of day
conferences for
teachers aimed at giving them the
tools to make informed decisions.
Parent -
teacher conferences are key to boosting students» academic success, and have long been the primary
tool that schools use to promote school - family engagement.
In Redwood City community school coordinators used this
tool to help families prepare for Parent -
Teacher Conferences.
Real - time progress / coverage grids and learning journeys make for an effective support
tool for all parent /
teacher conferences.
On a recent rainy afternoon in Manhattan, the organization gathered in a
conference room to hash out ideas for an online
tool, funded by the Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust (also among the many funders of The Hechinger Report), that could help
teachers better understand the standards.
He found GSP to be such a valuable
tool that he began to mentor other geometry
teachers at the high school in the integration of this technology (personal communication approximately a year later at the state mathematics
conference).
We're developing a mobile data collection
tool that would enable
teachers to capture all their daily and weekly formative assessment data in one place, regardless of the medium (exit slips,
conferences, paper assessments, etc.) The
tool would use the data to create individual student portfolios, as well as a progress monitoring dashboard for the whole class.
Data included transcripts of pre and post observation
conferences, reflective dialog with
teachers, observation notes using the New
Teacher Center's formative assessment
tools and researcher reflective journal.
For instance, one student, Selene, an English Language Learner (ELL) who could seem shy and passive in school, used the student - led
conference tools to choose her own piece of writing for reflection and prepare a script to lead a
conference with her
teacher and father.
Parent -
Teacher Conferences remain an effective family engagement
tool.
On a recent rainy afternoon in Manhattan, the organization gathered in a
conference room to hash out ideas for an online
tool, funded by the Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust (among the many funders of The Hechinger Report), that could help
teachers better understand the standards.
These
tools include student - created district budgets, decision - making roles for students on committees for hiring
teachers and principals, and student - led forums and
conferences.
Resources include
tools to support a child's ability to read and write, as well as tips and questions to help prepare for parent -
teacher conferences in the new school year.
Molly shared lots of great
tools, powerful ideas, and concepts that left
conference - goers raring to learn more and excited to get back into their classrooms and do what great
teachers do best — inspire students to learn and help them overcome academic obstacles.
A second
tool that translates easily from
teachers to students is
conferences.
When the data reveal that one or more activities during the lesson has a higher than desired percentage of students demonstrating off - task behaviors, the conversation during the post-observation
conference focuses on the
teacher behavior (s) logged on the
tool for that particular activity during the lesson.
Academy participants used digital observation
tools (DiPaola & Hoy, 2008; eobservations.com) to collect evidence of high - yield strategies and share data with
teachers, conduct pre / post observation
conferences with
teachers, and implement professional goal setting that targets more effective utilization of high yield strategies.
The SURN Principal Academy was designed to build principals» knowledge of high - yield instructional strategies (Hattie, 2009); to increase their expertise with
tools in order to collect evidence of classroom teaching and learning and provide immediate feedback to
teachers; and to facilitate collaborative observation
conferences in order to engage
teachers in reflection and professional learning and improve classroom instruction.
While English educators may want to expose pre - and in - service
teachers to AES
tools, their utility is limited at this point, and well - documented assessment strategies, like writing portfolios and writing
conferences, and a keen awareness of the process writing approach should still be included in English education methods courses and in the methods repertoire of practicing English language arts
teachers.