Reference Learning
During these past couple of weeks, I have done a lot of different projects that have been very beneficial to help me understand more about my school and about my own personal teaching. One of these projects was the leadership and collaboration project. Throughout this project, I had the ability to look at my school's NC School Report Card as well as data that can be found through the DPI North Carolina website. For this project, I had to analyze this data that I found and had to create a school improvement plan based off of this data. I was able to collaborate with teachers that are on the school improvement plan team as well as upper administration throughout the school. After looking at the school improvement plan and discussing, I have decided to create a parent night that deals directly with English Language Arts. The school I am placed at struggles with reading more so than struggling with math, therefore, my parent night is going to be focused on reading. Since I am placed in fourth grade, we are going to have an EOG Prep Night dealing specifically with Reading Comprehension. I am going to have the parents learn reading comprehension strategies that can help these students during the EOG. I am going to have a pamphlet with these strategies that the parents will be able to take home with them and continue practicing these strategies with their students before the EOG. This event will take place during parent-teacher conferences and have the ability to be a "session" that the parents will be able to attend. We planned this way so that I will have a larger turn out since parents will already be there for the conferences. Planning a parent night based off of the school report card and school data is directly related to all of NCTCS 2, especially NCTCS 2e which states "Teachers work collaboratively with the families and significant adults in the lives of their students". As teachers, I am going to have to work collaboratively with families and anyone that has influence into the lives of the students. I want to make sure that I am creating a partnership that will be able to help each student prosper within education. I am super excited to actually go through with this parent night during student teaching and to continue to learn from all the teachers around me!
Outside Learning
For outside learning, I researched a website on how to build a better parent night and how to create an event that is going to truly be successful. This website can be found at https://www.teachingforchange.org/how-to-build-a-better-parent-teacher-night
Future Classroom
In my future classroom, I want to continue to look at my school's data and report card and create parent nights that can be beneficial for all of the students within my classroom for short-term goals but as well as long-term goals. I want to make sure that I am being a leader in my classroom and fully being attentive to the needs of all my students. I want to make sure that I am working with everyone within the school to create a parent night that will be beneficial for all of my students and successfully planned and attented.
Bailey,
ReplyDeleteIt is so exciting to hear about your parent night that you have planned for your entire 4th grade. I think you have chosen a great theme and have a great strategy for getting parents to attend. I look forward to hearing in the Spring how it goes while student teaching. I agree with you that in future classrooms it is so important to keep up with the school data on the NC Report Cards.
Bailey,
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed reading your blog this week and being able to see what you have been up to in your clincals and how our learning experiences in 435 transpire into real life! It is funny how similar outside learning is but I will take your website you referenced and keep it for my future parent nights.
Hey Bailey! I also enjoyed taking part in the Leadership project! I really enjoyed being able to talk with all of the staff at Third Creek Elementary to determine more about the school. The school improvement team participants were very helpful. I believe I would like to be on one of these teams at some point in my career. I can really see how the school helps all of the students and looks at goals to help improve the whole school. I like how specific the goals were on the school improvement plan. I also enjoyed looking at the NC report card information. I know where I am going from now on when I am researching a school for teaching at or for my children. I really enjoyed your blog!
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