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Effective Student-Led Parent Conferences

The CoolCatTeacher

Students can lead parent conferences. Today Laura Penrod Stock @tweetmeego coaches students to create powerful student-led conferences with their parents. The two biggest mistakes many teachers make with student-led conferences. Sculpted from her experience in economic development, she is passionate about student eportfolios.

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Document Student Growth with Portfolios

Teacher Reboot Camp

The second part is to get students to benchmark and reflect at more regular intervals through student led conferences. To help you get started find a slide presentation , tips, web tools and resources below. The third part includes the final reflection. The time to implement digital portfolios is at the start of the course.

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Seesaw: The ultimate ePortfolio for every classroom!

iLearn Technology

What it is: Seesaw is the first truly student centered/driven digital portfolio tool that I’ve seen. There is also an awesome flag feature that makes it easy to highlight work that you want to go back to for conferences or follow-up with the student. Teachers can approve peer feedback before it is seen by students or parents.

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ScreenPal–Your New BFF! – SULS0189

Shake Up Learning

In this episode, Kasey shares a new tool from Screencast-O-Matic: ScreenPal ! This Chrome extension is a very robust screen recording tool. This is a great tool for teachers to communicate, leave feedback, record lessons, and more. AND it integrates with many of your favorite tools! Meet ScreenPal–Your New BFF!

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6 Ways Technology Can Reinvent Parent-Teacher Conferences

Edsurge

We’re about a third of the way into the school year and we know what that means: The dread of parent teacher conferences! But conferences would not make it on my Top Ten Reasons I Like to Teach list. the traditional parent teacher conference as it once was is both redundant and outdated. Skype your conference.

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This Week's Presentations - The Learning Revolution Online Daily Education Conference #learningrevolution

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Welcome to the May 11 - 17 edition of the 2020 Learning Revolution daily online conference schedule. The conference hashtag is #learningrevolution. Augustine School & Loyola Marymount University 12:00 PM - Designing ePortfolios: Four Considerations with Barbara M. The week's sessions are below. See you "online!"

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Storms over liberal education: notes on the 2016 AAC&U conference

Bryan Alexander

Last week I participated in the American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) 2016 conference. Let me share some materials here, along with reflections on the conference. I helped start the conference with a half-day workshop on “How Technology Can Enhance Liberal Education: The State of the Art in 2016.”