pln 15

I saw something very familiar when I was looking through the fisch bowl today. The pln was titled Not your Parents' parent teacher conferenences. It was talking about how Ms.Smith did conferneces this year and how it was a better way to do conferences.

What matters: I think that it is really cool that our class is being recognized for being different and so advanced. The pln talks about how she asked the students these quetions first and then had them give a letter of their responses to their parents and teachers.

• Assess your learning in class so far this semester. Look at your participation, growth in writing, comprehension, etc..
  
• Where, in terms of your learning, do you want to be at the end of the semester?
  
• How are you going to get there?
  
• What can I do to help?

It then talked about how she talked about the letter with the parents and then talked to the parents about all of the questions. But since she was only aloud 5 minutes with each parent it wasn't enough time and she didnt get to go over all of the questions with the parent. Im very glad that Karl Fisch posted this because now other teachers will see it and then for the next parent teacher conferences they will do the same.