as a parent i'm always interested in how my child is doing academically and socially. i've always love teachers that use a portfolio approach so that i can see what my child has been doing and chart their progress over a term.
Hi, I think the things parents want to know about their children, when they are at school is 1) How they interact with other children & who are the kids that they interact most. 2) How they participate in teacher directed activity time & during their free choice.3) If they are allowed to pick their partners for a classroom project, do they chose they same kids that they hang out at lunch time? 4) If they had a graded or even ungraded presentation of a project ( such as book report, book recommendation, presenting their Diorama,or show & tell etc) parents would love to have it recorded & find it as a video clip, sent to their home email but probably this won't work. Kids will get nervous & conscious & mess up their presentation & also may be their won't be enough adult volunteer to help the teacher like recording, editing, posting, getting parental consent & sending individuals only their child's performance or the entire classroom's presentation. As a mother & a teacher, these just came to my mind. Hope it helps a bit.Also you know how some times parent's miss parent-teacher conference? So at the beginning of the school year, if you could introduce yourself, talk a bit about your background, give a virtual tour of your classroom introducing different centers and their utility towards the curriculum & talk about first few week's planning about how their classroom time will be spent etc, then send it to parent's email, then they'll all be in the same page with you without meeting you physically.
I am a Elementary Education Major at Pacific University and this blog helps me to communicate with my fellow classmates. But can also be helpful to others that are interested in this area. There will be book discussions and my final project which will look at the interaction between the teacher and parent through technology. Hopefully I will be able to create a website that will help achieve a classroom community at home and within the school.
as a parent i'm always interested in how my child is doing academically and socially. i've always love teachers that use a portfolio approach so that i can see what my child has been doing and chart their progress over a term.
ReplyDeleteHi, I think the things parents want to know about their children, when they are at school is 1) How they interact with other children & who are the kids that they interact most. 2) How they participate in teacher directed activity time & during their free choice.3) If they are allowed to pick their partners for a classroom project, do they chose they same kids that they hang out at lunch time? 4) If they had a graded or even ungraded presentation of a project ( such as book report, book recommendation, presenting their Diorama,or show & tell etc) parents would love to have it recorded & find it as a video clip, sent to their home email but probably this won't work. Kids will get nervous & conscious & mess up their presentation & also may be their won't be enough adult volunteer to help the teacher like recording, editing, posting, getting parental consent & sending individuals only their child's performance or the entire classroom's presentation. As a mother & a teacher, these just came to my mind. Hope it helps a bit.Also you know how some times parent's miss parent-teacher conference? So at the beginning of the school year, if you could introduce yourself, talk a bit about your background, give a virtual tour of your classroom introducing different centers and their utility towards the curriculum & talk about first few week's planning about how their classroom time will be spent etc, then send it to parent's email, then they'll all be in the same page with you without meeting you physically.
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