Question Of The Day: Parent Teacher Conferences @ This Age?
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Question Of The Day: Parent Teacher Conferences @ This Age?
| Tue, 10-04-2011 - 3:10pm |
Does your child's school hold yearly parent teacher conferences for children in the 4th 5th and 6th grade or are conferences only done on an as-needed basis?
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Seems to me, that the same thing should be required, in reverse for regular public school kids. Teachers explaining where they are, what problems, what victories. Maybe done via a group internet thing or at the school, but why not? Part of what I HATED with regular school was not knowing what my kids were learning so that I could relate things at home to it, to expand their knowledge. This would help some. (Especially with those tired kids at the end of the day who have one word answers about everything that happened at school!)
Since our school goes to 5th grade, we're still doing parent/teacher conferences.
Yes, I speak to myself on a regular basis:)
DS's outsourced teachers and coaches keep me in the loop of strengths and
I HATE, HATE, HATE the way they do them in middle school. I know there has to be a better way but it is what it is. You go to the cafeteria (gym, library, etc) and stand in line for 3 minutes with each teacher. It's horrible. They do them on two nights- this year was tues and thurs and I had to go to both nights for and hour and a half each night just to talk to her main teachers and I finally recruited dh to go talk to the ancillary ones because I knew I'd never make it to talk to them.
What I usually do is email all her teachers. That way they can email me with any questions or problems. Honestly it seems to work better than trying to get all the info I need in three minutes. But I do like to meet them face to face. It lets them know that I care about her grades and am invested in her schooling.
When my daughter was in regular school I really hated the "game" that they played. In the fall, there was always some area that needed improving that the kid was so far behind in and needed extra tutoring/help, etc. Despite the fact that in the spring conference the word was always how much the child improved and was now above grade level. I got this and other parents did too, and they did not let their kids slack over the summer. After catching on, it really rang hollow and made you wonder exactly what you did need to focus on and what the kids didn't have to do so that they could have a little free time to play instead of doing extra drills.
You go to the cafeteria (gym, library, etc) and stand in line for 3 minutes with each teacher.
Okay, this takes the cake for the WORST possible way I can imagine doing this. Oh my goodness - I don't know where to start...lack of privacy? No time? Awkwardness? YIKES!!
Here, in middle school there are conferences twice a year with all the core teachers -they are on teams, so you meet with all the main team teachers (math, science, social studies, language arts) for 20 minutes. You can request a meeting with the encore, but you usually don't. In HS, you actually meet with every single teacher separately for - hmmmm... I think 20 minutes also, but it may be shorter. I remember it took the entire day when both girls were in HS since they each had 6 or 7 core teachers.
For my 4th grader, it's 20 minute blocks. I am meeting with his homeroom teacher, his math teacher, and gifted. I may also request a short conference with his language arts teacher.
Theresa
My girls attend a k-8 public school.