Standard 10
Communicates and interacts with parents/guardians to enhance student success.
"Lindsay presents herself in a very professional manner with students, staff, and parents. She is constantly seeing ways in which to improve herself," -Sharon Panicker, cooperating teacher.
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My student teaching experience taught me a lot about interacting with parents. My first interaction was sending a letter home to them, introducing myself as their child's student teacher.
After that, I learned very quickly how to collaborate with them at least on a weekly basis. I would sent newsletters home weekly to let them know what was going on in the classroom. Sometimes, for a certain few, progress reports were also sent home. Usually during the week I would have the chance to chat with lunchroom moms from the children in my class.
In addition to all of this, I had the opportunity to participate in parent/teacher conferences on March 16 and 17. I also participated in 3 IEP meetings for special education where parents, specialists, educators, and administrators all collaborated on individual students successes.
Example of my weekly newsletter:
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