student led conferences Archives

23 Oct 2017

Post 08 – Student Led Conferences

No reflection last week (actually two weeks ago) as we had our annual retreat called 'The Forward.' It was the first Forward in 3 years that I wasn't busy running around filming stuff. It was nice to leave the camera at home and not constantly be wondering 'is there anything else I could be filming.' This upcoming week we have student led conferences. Here's our prompt for the week: We have student led conferences this week. What do you feel we do well when it comes to the conferences? What is missing from them? Do you have any stories of…

Week 30 – Student Led Conferences, Math Blogs, & Filmmaking

STUDENT-LED CONFERENCES We didn't have classes Thursday and Friday of this past week in order to make time for student-led conferences. I was going to write out all the details about student-led conferences and realized that I already did that earlier this year in THIS post. Just about everything is the same except this time I revised the reflection sheet a little bit. The previous reflection sheet had them rate their behavior in every class but most students were just like 'well, my behavior is about the same in every class' so I replaced that part with a section where…

Week 9 – Student Led Conferences, Ben Franklin, and KenKens

Week 9 was a short academic week. At Khabele, we have student-led conferences once in the Fall and once in the spring. We take two days off of academic classes to create space and time to have these conferences. This week, I've also started some Ben Franklin-style daily reflections and introduced my students to KenKen math puzzles. STUDENT-LED CONFERENCES A student led conference is quite a bit different from the more traditional parent-teacher conference. Students prepare to lead a conference with their parents and their advisor for 30-45 minutes. The philosophy is that it helps the student take more ownership…