Monday, November 10, 2008
Chris Neville - Ah-Ha for Sunday 11/9
Student-led conferences seem like such a good idea. I am concerned about the time frame involved in implementing this at the high school level. I have over 120 students, if each student only gets 10 minutes with me, that is still 20 hours. Currently, my HS gives 6.5 hours for conferences over two days. Even with just 5-minutes conference (which is totally too short), we are talking about 10 hours. In any case, I think the idea of student led conferences are great and I hope we can begin something like this out our school at least on a limited basis. Well done presentation, too :) I enjoyed the class veery much - best of luck to all of you!
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Hi Chris:
Do you have a home room? This was a "sticking point" for us because we often have Student Led Conferences with a student that is not in our classroom. However, as I mentioned in our presentation, that if every certified person in the building had 20 or a few more students to be in a home room, then you get to know them and it is o.k. to do their conference. Parents state what they want during the conference. If they are unhappy about a grade, we set up a conference with that teacher. I went to several conferences because I was requested. I am the building reading specialist. We haven't implemented SLCs in the high school here. My daughter teaches Spanish in Libertyville and they sit in the gymnasium and parents come up to them, sit in a desk, and they talk. I think that would be weird. However, it seems to work for them. In high school fewer and fewer parents go to conferences. We have almost 100% attendance in our junior high. I really liked the class with Dr. C. I have lots of work to do at my school, so I struggled with time management, however, the time in class is enjoyable. Now...on to the next class. Marilyn Sieben
In Moline, all students were conferenced in their advisor-advisoree class which meets once every two weeks. This way, all staff were involved no matter what they taught and numbers were under 15. Staff was apprehensive at first but changed their tunes once they had gone through the actual motions.
I also have concerns about how this could work at the high school level. I have experienced student led conferences as a parent at the elementary level, and have mixed feelings about them. One year I had a very negative experience with them (ie. my child wasn't adaquately prepared to do the conference.), but another year it was a very positive experience. I think that this could be a great way to get more parents involved at the high school level, but I'm not sure how to go about it with so many different teachers that would be involved with each student.
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