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Student-Led Conferences
a presentation for students and parents
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Student-Led ConferencesA closer look…
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Student-Led Conferences
• This year, instead of doing our traditional “arena conferencing” on the Tuesday before Thanksgiving, will be doing “Student-Led Conferences”
• One of our seventh grade teams (Team Bold) did them last year as a trial, and we will now be doing them for all students.
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What is student-led conferencing?
Students conduct
formal conferences
with their parents to
display their
schoolwork and
discuss their own
learning, goals, and
strategies for
meeting those goals.
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Students take ownership of their learning. They demonstrate increased accountability for their progress. There is tremendous power in this.
Students learn to set goals and work towards them.
Student work becomes more focused.
Students have the opportunity to develop presentation skills.
Benefits for Students
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Students take ownership of their learning. They demonstrate increased accountability for their progress. There is tremendous power in this.
Students learn to set goals and work towards them.
Student work becomes more focused.
Students have the opportunity to develop presentation skills.
Benefits for Students
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Students take ownership of their learning. They demonstrate increased accountability for their progress. There is tremendous power in this.
Students learn to set goals and work towards them.
Student work becomes more focused.
Students have the opportunity to develop presentation skills.
Benefits for Students
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Students take ownership of their learning. They demonstrate increased accountability for their progress. There is tremendous power in this.
Students learn to set goals and work towards them.
Student work becomes more focused.
Students have the opportunity to develop presentation skills.
Benefits for Students
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There is higher parent attendance at student-led conferences.
Parents experience a greater appreciation of student progress and a greater understanding of how to support.
Parents gain an appreciation for their child’s ability to “own” and articulate their own academic goals and progress.
Benefits for Parents
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There is higher parent attendance at student-led conferences.
Parents experience a greater appreciation of student progress and a greater understanding of how to support.
Parents gain an appreciation for their child’s ability to “own” and articulate their own academic goals and progress.
Benefits for Parents
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There is higher parent attendance at student-led conferences.
Parents experience a greater appreciation of student progress and a greater understanding of how to support.
Parents gain an appreciation for their child’s ability to “own” and articulate their own academic goals and progress.
Benefits for Parents
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Students start by setting one goal for each class.
Your teachers will help you with this over the next few weeks.
It’s your job to track you goal over the next 11 weeks.
What does it look like? Goal Setting
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Students start by setting one goal for each class.
Your teachers will help you with this over the next few weeks.
It’s your job to track you goal over the next 11 weeks.
What does it look like? Goal Setting
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Students start by setting one goal for each class.
Your teachers will help you with this over the next few weeks.
It’s your job to track you goal over the next 11 weeks.
What does it look like? Goal Setting
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Students collect samples of their work throughout the term to showcase their learning and progress.
Students should play a role in selecting which pieces of work to include in their presentation.
Samples of work should then be evaluated by the students“I do this well; I struggle with….”
What does it look like? Artifacts
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Students collect samples of their work throughout the term to showcase their learning and progress.
Students should play a role in selecting which pieces of work to include in their presentation.
Samples of work should then be evaluated by the students“I do this well; I struggle with….”
What does it look like? Artifacts
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Students collect samples of their work throughout the term to showcase their learning and progress.
Students should play a role in selecting which pieces of work to include in their presentation.
Samples of work should then be evaluated by the students“I do this well; I struggle with….”
What does it look like? Artifacts
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You received the PowerPoint you will use on your KSD email from Mr. Schiechl this morning.
As you work on this, save it to your 2nd period teacher’s workspace on the S: drive. Instructions are on the PowerPoint template.
There will be checks every few weeks, and you will be referred to an SLC Tutorial if you are too far behind.
What does it look like?
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You received the PowerPoint you will use on your KSD email from Mr. Schiechl this morning.
As you work on this, save it to your 2nd period teacher’s workspace on the S: drive. Instructions are on the PowerPoint template.
There will be checks every few weeks, and you will be referred to an SLC Tutorial if you are too far behind.
What does it look like?
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You received the PowerPoint you will use on your KSD email from Mr. Schiechl this morning.
As you work on this, save it to your 2nd period teacher’s workspace on the S: drive. Instructions are on the PowerPoint template.
There will be checks every few weeks, and you will be referred to an SLC Tutorial if you are too far behind.
What does it look like?
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We will schedule conferences through 2nd period classes
Parents will receive training at Open House, via email, website, and newsletter.
Parents will pick a time when they come to Open House
What does it look like? Meridian’s Plan
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We will schedule conferences through 2nd period classes
Parents will receive training at Open House, via email, website, and newsletter.
Parents will pick a time when they come to Open House
What does it look like? Meridian’s Plan
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We will schedule conferences through 2nd period classes
Parents will receive training at Open House, via email, website, and newsletter.
Parents will pick a time when they come to Open House
What does it look like? Meridian’s Plan
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Scheduled for 20 minute time periods, with +/- 4 conferences per room
Followed by 20 minutes for visiting other teachers.
What does it look like? Meridian’s Plan
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Scheduled for 20 minute time periods, with +/- 4 conferences per room
Followed by 20 minutes for visiting other teachers.
What does it look like? Meridian’s Plan
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Student-Led Conferences
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We will have these materials posted on the school website for you to redownload if necessary.
Questions?