Well the conferences are over and every single other conference went great. The parents are happy and some ar actually more open to working in a...
charter schools can be Union, are you Union? If so I'd refer to you collective bargaining agreement for rules regarding termination during the...
Your right. I have a terrible time getting to stuff at my kids school becuase we work the same hours and I was trying to be thoughtful but I think...
Oh no! I just remembered that I also have IEP meeting for this student in two weeks (speech iep not academic). Now I'm going to have to go through...
Thank you all for your replies. I will not be meeting with this parent in the future without admin being present for sure.
Actually our school has minimum days all week to keep us from having to do conferences outside of our contract hours. I am the only teacher in my...
I think I may just need a hug. I have always hated conferences. I like 5 year olds way more than there parents. I always tie myself in knots over...
I call it the gift of time. I'm surprised that your school doesn't do a developmentally appropriate, organic play based learning environment for 3...
MrsC I didn't realize Canada had such strong teachers unions. That's awesome I'm jealous
I haven't used Read Well (we use Reach for Reading) but we have a similar experience with our math curriculum TPS math. The kids hate it and they...
This is basically what I think. It should be about what a student knows and can do that matters. However standards based grading as I know it was...
I'm also at a charter but we are hoping to go Union since we are a dependent charter. We vote in a couple of weeks and I'm hoping we get a...
I teach kinder so my grading would be not anything like yours but I have a middle schooler of my own and though he isn't graded on behavior or...
They go out with a book and a paper on a clipboard with a pencil for drawing. I would love it if we had an inside option but we don't have a...
This may be very different from person to person. I've done pre-k through 6th and to me I liked them all-just differently. I love kinder but I was...
It's a shame you are expected to do the same things. Me and my grade level partners all teacher vEry differently and as such our classes and...
Ok this might sound a bit silly but your school sounds a bit like Hogwarts. 10 points for Gryffindor ☺️
C-are they supportive or just blame gamers who never stop asking for more. Do I feel anxious every time they walk by because they're always...
What she said. It's what I did (got my lessons and materials from teachers pay teachers) so that I didn't have to focus on that while needed to be...
I think a valid point was made about how RTI may not be looking as effective as it should be because it can be used as an alternative to special...
