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Shannon Murphy

Conference Reflection
11/5/18
Conferences: 10/24 - 10/25

Parent teacher conferences in my first grade classroom at Purple Sage Elementary School
went really well. My lead teacher and I set up times in given time slots provided by the district
on Wednesday and Thursday. We collaborated with teachers who had siblings of our students in
their classes in order to set up the siblings’ conferences back-to-back. This way parents would
get all their conferences done in a streak and not have to spend their whole evening at the school
or show up more than once. We had a translator scheduled for two conferences with Hispanic
families with parents who only speak Spanish, and one of those parents did not come so we only
utilized the translator for one conference. At that particular conference, we were working on
getting approval from the parents about their student attending kindergarten for half of the day.
This particular student should have been held back in kindergarten but the parents did not allow
it and now he is unable to do anything we do in first grade because he is so far behind. This was
a lengthy discussion and required lots of help from the translator, who has also had lots of
experience working with this student. The mom eventually gave the green light for him to return
to kindergarten for part of the day, and the follow up for this is to see if he improves from this
experience.
Most of the other conferences were straight forward. For every student we provided a
folder (which they had painted a fall tree on) that held their report card and all of the students
writing assignments and math assignments. It also had their reading assessments, and we told the
parents about how we used each assessment and what their grades on the report cards meant. I
talked to every parent about the math program. Some of the students had been struggling with it
at the beginning but were already improving. Others were following along the whole time with
full understanding. I explained to parents that were concerned about their student’s math grades
that the curriculum started on a hard note for first grade and that we were trying some new things
to help improve student grades, like changing the testing to small group instead of whole class.
This way I am able to give some more one on one instruction to struggling students. I was also
able to talk to the parents about other things, like behavior and progress, because I am in the
classroom everyday seeing their students learning. I know them as well as my lead teacher does.
Some of the students came with their parents and others did not. When they were present
we asked them to share something about themselves that they wanted their parents or us teachers
to know. We asked them some questions that we don’t get to ask all of our students every day.
Not every student could think of something to say, so in the future, I might come up with some
questions for them to answer or give them a prompt during school for them to write something
we can talk about at their conference. I would like to get them more involved while also having
the opportunity to talk to their parents about the successes and needs I see with each student.

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