Standard #10- Promote parental involvement and collaborate effectively with other staff, the community, higher education, other agencies, as well as parents and other caregivers for the benefit of students
My experience at Whitney Point working with the eighth grade team provided me with a different set of experiences, equally rewarding. Every day during first period, my host teacher and I would meet with the rest of the team teachers, including the social studies, math, and science teachers. This experience showed me the effect that an involved staff can have on the student
population. All team members talk together and work together on issues facing their students, or focus on particular students that are in need. Occasionally, the special education teacher would sit in on the meetings as well. Since the district practices inclusion, our team of teachers also worked with the special education teacher to determine how best to provide a fair education to all students.
Students who have parents actively involved in their education are more likely to succeed in the classroom; therefore the ELA teacher must collaborate with parents. It is so important that a teacher lead the effort in making contact with parents
and/or guardians of the student. Our team of teachers would send out letters and emails to the parents of students that we wished to meet with immediately. After this initiation, the parent was responsible for scheduling a conference. There needs to be a positive, professional relationship with the people involved in the student's home life; therefore the discussion was always polite and diplomatic, regardless of the circumstance.
Every week during our team planning periods, we had various parent teacher conferences, which proved to be one of my most rewarding experiences at this placement. Each parent was provided with a progress report of their child’s performance in the classroom and then we would work together to create a list of goals for the child. This ensured that the parents and teachers were on the same page and were working toward a common goal for success in the classroom. It was a rewarding experience when teachers and parents collaborate on plans to help the student grow.
Both Greene Central Schools and Whitney Point Schools use a program called PowerTeacher that also promotes parental involvement. Use of this program allows parents/guardians to monitor their child’s work. Therefore, there are never any surprises with assignments, grades, or progress.
Because my host school has been deemed a school in need of improvement, there are several school and community outreach programs, such as SHARE, that are programs for kids with absent issues, chronic failures, or at a high risk for dropping out. These types of groups teach parents skills, such as how to use the PowerTeacher program or how to act in situations like parent teacher conferences. Often they don’t show up which appears like indifference to us, but it really just embarrassment on their part. They may want to be a part of their children’s lives but don’t know how; so with these types of community outreach programs, they try to reach the parents in order to get them more involved.
Power teacher
List of Parent teacher conferences
My experience at Whitney Point working with the eighth grade team provided me with a different set of experiences, equally rewarding. Every day during first period, my host teacher and I would meet with the rest of the team teachers, including the social studies, math, and science teachers. This experience showed me the effect that an involved staff can have on the student
population. All team members talk together and work together on issues facing their students, or focus on particular students that are in need. Occasionally, the special education teacher would sit in on the meetings as well. Since the district practices inclusion, our team of teachers also worked with the special education teacher to determine how best to provide a fair education to all students.
Students who have parents actively involved in their education are more likely to succeed in the classroom; therefore the ELA teacher must collaborate with parents. It is so important that a teacher lead the effort in making contact with parents
and/or guardians of the student. Our team of teachers would send out letters and emails to the parents of students that we wished to meet with immediately. After this initiation, the parent was responsible for scheduling a conference. There needs to be a positive, professional relationship with the people involved in the student's home life; therefore the discussion was always polite and diplomatic, regardless of the circumstance.
Every week during our team planning periods, we had various parent teacher conferences, which proved to be one of my most rewarding experiences at this placement. Each parent was provided with a progress report of their child’s performance in the classroom and then we would work together to create a list of goals for the child. This ensured that the parents and teachers were on the same page and were working toward a common goal for success in the classroom. It was a rewarding experience when teachers and parents collaborate on plans to help the student grow.
Both Greene Central Schools and Whitney Point Schools use a program called PowerTeacher that also promotes parental involvement. Use of this program allows parents/guardians to monitor their child’s work. Therefore, there are never any surprises with assignments, grades, or progress.
Because my host school has been deemed a school in need of improvement, there are several school and community outreach programs, such as SHARE, that are programs for kids with absent issues, chronic failures, or at a high risk for dropping out. These types of groups teach parents skills, such as how to use the PowerTeacher program or how to act in situations like parent teacher conferences. Often they don’t show up which appears like indifference to us, but it really just embarrassment on their part. They may want to be a part of their children’s lives but don’t know how; so with these types of community outreach programs, they try to reach the parents in order to get them more involved.
Power teacher
List of Parent teacher conferences