Parent Teacher Conferences - Student-Leds

Hello 7A Families,

This e-mail is regarding our upcoming parent-teacher conferences.  For this round, the grade 7 team will be formatting the conferences as Student-Led.  For those of you who have not participated in student-led conferences before, this e-mail will provide some explanations.

• Student-led Conferences are intended to show you, the parent, exactly what your child can do, rather than us just talking about it.  When you enter the room, you will pick up a “road map” that has a list of the different stations you can visit with your child.  Each station will consist of a task or activity that your child will complete.  Some stations might show examples of completed work for you to look at together.  There will be placard on each station that has the student criteria on it, and discussion questions for you to ask your child.
• As these conferences are student-led, it is important that your child attend with you.
• You will have some time to chat with us, but if you need a lot of time (or privacy) it would be advised that you set up a meeting with us at an alternative time.  There will be 3 other families working through the stations at the same time as you, so it’s not the most conducive for a structured, private, teacher interview.
• If you do not have your child with you, we can find time to chat if that is what you want, but again, if it is a private matter, an alternative time is recommended.
• If your child is on an IPP we are happy to organize some time to meet with you privately.  It is still important that your child show you their work, but if you would like to talk specifically about the IPP or other learning concerns, please let me know and we can figure out a time for that.
• The way booking will work for this is that we will have 3 open bookings/half hour time slot.

That covers pretty much everything.  We’ve been having a great year so far and have a lot of work to share with you, so hopefully we will see as many of you as we can!

Please let me know if you have any questions,

Brandie