I love the Thanksgiving weekend holiday! Yes, it's great spending time with friends and family, and eating lots of yummy food. But, mainly I love it because it means I'm done with fall report cards and conferences! I just feel SO relaxed after finishing this very stressful part of my job. Conferences went fine this year. I ended up with three no-shows that I wasn't able to reschedule. Oh well! I held 25 successful conferences (that's 12.5 hours of actual conferencing on top of the approximately 14 hours of doing report cards!).
The most exciting thing this year was attending my first conference as a parent. Marley's teacher decided to hold conferences this year to share what they have been learning, and how he is doing in school. Her goal was to identify his strengths and challenges, and to tailor his experiences at school to meet his needs as a learner. Wow - sounds familiar!
Anyway, the cool part was that she used video evidence to show examples of his cognitive, social, motor, and language development. She told us that he's fitting in really well there, gets along with other kids easily, and has picked up all the daily routines. I hope you enjoy Marley's conference video as much as we did!
3 comments:
What an awesome video. That 'Grace' seems like a trouble maker!
That was fun to watch, I wouldn't be too hard on Grace. That was a big decision, go with the rest of the kids or looked like she really wanted to finish her snack.
how cool is that! what a joy to watch, he's a smart chap. This makes me want to teach at headstart
Patrick
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