Weeks 15 & 16: Parent Communication

The final few weeks of Management are all about communicating well with the parents and caregivers of the children that we teach.  For your final project, you must show me your ability to initiate and maintain positive partnerships with theses people.  If you lost your rubric, you can download another one here.

In this week's class, everyone had a chance to see some examples of positive parent-teacher communication.  By popular request, here are the sheets from the learning centers and the form that I use for making Happygrams!  I can't believe we only have two more weeks left of Management!  See you in class!

Week 14: Homefun!

In week 14, we begin our unit on working with families.  Korean families are very involved in the education of their children, so it is very important that we establish good partnerships with them from the beginning.  In the class about homework, we learn a little more about how making children's school life a part of their home life can help to bridge the gap between parents and teachers by keeping mom and dad informed about what's happening in the classroom.  Always remember that the more informed parents and families feel about what happens in your classroom, the better they feel about you as a teacher for their child.  Here is this week's handout!

Another thing that will come up this week is your final project.  It's a good project with many practical elements.  After I collect your interview papers in week 15, I'll give out a rubric for the final project.  For right now, I'll say that you need to have a homework policy letter as part of the project.  Every week until finals, I will tell you another thing that you can put in your final project.  Just work at your own pace and I will collect all of it on week 18.  If you do a little every week, it should be easy!  Working on it all at once may not be all that difficult either.  To get you started, here are the sample policy letter and the policy letter writing guide that I handed out in class.

Weeks 11-13: Interview Papers and Other Stuff...

Now that we've finished off the unit on models of discipline, it's time to get started on your interviews.  The link to the required documents for the interview paper are to the right of this post.  The week after next (week 14), everyone needs to bring in their interview notes to share with friends.  It's just fine if the interview notes are in Korean, I will not be reading them very closely.  The actual interview papers will be handed in on week 15.

Here are all the class handouts for the models of discipline and the handouts for logical consequences.