Posts Tagged as ‘parent conferences’

March 9, 2009

On Parent Conferences

Another post I wrote and never posted. This I emailed to myself November 16th, right before the Thanksgiving break:
I need to re-read How to Teach so Kids can Learn. Every time I go into a conference (today during my conferene period, today after school, and then set up another for Friday) I feel I’m [...]

October 12, 2008

So It Begins… Parent Conference Season

Does everyone have this wave of parent contacts at the end of the first grading period?
I had a parent phone call Tuesday, a student conference and a parent conference Wednesday, and two phone calls Thursday.  Pretty much they all went the same way:
Parent: “Why is my son/daughter failing?”
Me: “Because he/she is not doing the work.”
Parent: [...]