Student-Led Conferences

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Student-Led Conferences
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What Is A Student-Led Conference?

• A portfolio of work to document what you have
  accomplished

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What Is Your Role?

• You will
• Collect
• Select
• Reflect
• On 12 pieces of work which you feel best shows
  your accomplishments in your core classes (3 per
  class.)

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What Is In The Portfolio?

• Title Page
• Table of Contents
• 1 Personal Dear Parent Letter
• Cover Page- Bell 1 Course and Teacher
• Reflection essay/cover letter
• Three selections
• Cover Page Bell 2 Course and Teacher
• Reflection essay/cover letter
• Three selections
• Cover Page Bell 3 Course and Teacher
• Reflection essay/cover letter
• Three selections
• Cover Page Bell 4 Course and Teacher
• Reflection essay/cover letter
• Three selections
• Mission Statement
• Citizenship graph
• One last thing note
• Student and parent created goal sheet

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The Personal Dear Parent Letter

• Salutation (Dear Mom, Dad, Aunt Suzy)
• Purpose of this conference
• Thank you for coming to this conference
• I will explain how I am progressing as a learner

- I am going to show you several examples
of my work they are only samples
- Please listen carefully and ask questions
about my work Expectations - During
this conference, mom and dad, I expect
you. - I hope that you will
find. Closing - I look forward to
hearing your feedback after this
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The Work You Select

• 12 work samples 3 from each class
• Each class work sample must reflect one of the
  following
• Strength
• Challenge
• Your Choice

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Reflection Essay

• Four student reflection essays - one for each
  class.
• Each essay needs to be in the 5 paragraph format
• Introduction
• Each piece of work (strength, challenge, choice)
  gets its own paragraph
• Conclusion

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Personal Mission Statement

• A personal mission statement is like a personal
  credo or motto that states what your life is
  about. It is like a blueprint to your life.
• 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens
• by
  Sean Covey

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Citizenship Graph

• CONSISTANTLY
• (95-100)
• MOST OF THE TIME
• (75)
• SOMETIMES
• (50)
• OCCASIONALLY
• (25)
• PREPAREDNESS
  PROMPTNESS INTEGRITY RESPECTFUL
  Your Choice
• 
  

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Name______________________________________________
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• One last thing note
• This reminds parents to
• 1. Create goal sheet with you
• 2. Complete parent survey
• 3. Complete student feedback which is called
  classwork

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Student Goal Sheet
MY GOAL FOR SUCCESS Student Name_________________
Goal 1 __________________________________________
__________________ To achieve this goal, I
will A_______________ B_______________ The
people who can help me attain this goal
are _____________________________ Distractions
that may get in the way of me attaining this goal
are ___________________________ Student
initial___Parent Initial___
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Parent Survey

• Thank you for coming! We hope you enjoyed your
  visit. Please take a moment to answer the
  following questions before you leave. Please read
  each statement and circle the number that
  corresponds with your level of agreement or
  disagreement. Thank you.
• For each of the questions please use the
  following scale
• Strongly Disagree Disagree Agree Strongly
  Agree
• 1 2
  3 4
• 1._______ I think both a student-led conference
  and a traditional parent-teacher conference are
  important tools of parent-student-teacher
  communication.
• 2. ______ I have a clear understanding of my
  childs learning and their academic performance
  in the classroom.
• 3._______ I have a clear understanding of my
  childs effort in classroom behavior.
• 4. _______Student-led conferences can lead to
  improved student accountability.
• 5._______ Student-led conferences provide ample
  feedback regarding student progress in core
  academic classes.

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• Parent Class Work
• Dear Parent/Guardian,
• THANK YOU for participating in your childs
  conferencenow you have some homework. Please
  write your child a positive personal note about
  the conference. Below are some areas you might
  consider including as you write This should be
  positive letter focusing on your childs overall
  performance.
• What I noticed about your work was
• I was proud of you for
• Keep up the good work on
• I know you have difficulty sometimes, but
• Im glad you are making an extra effort in
• How can I help you?
• We hope this experience was as rewarding
  to you and your child as the process was to us.
  Thanks again for taking the extra effort!

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• Be here on time
• Conduct your parents to your conference table
• Present your portfolio
• Help your parents create your goal sheet,
  complete parent survey, remind parents to
  complete their class work.
• You are done!

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What If My Parents Cant Come That Night?

• An alternate time may be arranged
• You may present to another adult that night
  (grandparent, aunt, uncle, etc.)
• Presentation to school personnel

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Student Debriefing

• Prompt
• Now that youve completed the conference,
  what have you gained from this experience?

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What did parents think?

• This conference helped me see what my child is
  doing and what she needs to work on
• I enjoyed this conference because it gave a
  great perspective from my child. I think
  speaking to them gives me a much better idea of
  how they are doing in addition to just what a
  teacher tells me.
• I enjoyed hearing all she has learned, and
  gained progress in, as well as hearing it from
  her

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More input

• This is a wonderful idea! Crystal and I had a
  great conference. She was very excited to present
  me with her presentation. This is a great class
  and every student should benefit
• I think this is a wonderful initiative for the
  students
• I hope conferences are done more often. This, I
  believe, will help students self-esteem and
  improve their grades. Thank you
• This is the first student-led conference that I
  have been involved with and I found it to be a
  very positive, enlightening experiencegt