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An effective leader creates and sustains positive, collaborative and productive relationships with families and the community for the benefit of students.
An effective leader creates and sustains positive, collaborative and productive relationships with families and the community for the benefit of students.
I meet parents through initial welcome/enrollment meetings, parent-teacher conferences or school events.
My open-door policy allows parents to arrange meetings with me at both of our convenience.
I take notes during the meetings to help me remember key information and school faculty understand the goals we set or rules we establish for their children.
Welcome Meetings With Parents
Welcome Meetings With Parents
At the early learner level, I feel that it's extremely important for parents and their homeroom teacher to meet before the start of the year, preferably, or as soon as possible after it begins. This is because early learners have very different needs, and it is important to understand their home routines and background, so that when they come into the classroom, the teacher is better able to prepare the students for differences between being at home and interacting in a school setting.
Nicolas Parent Teacher Meetings.pdfArrange Parent Meetings
Arrange Parent Meetings
Regardless of the age level, I do feel that it is important for parents to be in contact with their child's teacher. Therefore, I open my communication lines during school hours, but outside of my class times so that parents are able to meet me when possible, or at least know when they are able to send messages or make phone calls in order to be sure we are on the same page about their child's progress.
An effective leader Engages in regular and open two-way communication with families and the community about the school students needs problems and accomplishments.
An effective leader Engages in regular and open two-way communication with families and the community about the school students needs problems and accomplishments.
I have not held a position where I would attend a parent teacher association meeting. However, I have experienced attending a real open house night while working in Asia, in which I had to create a presentation to introduce parents to myself, the key components of my class and what to expect. I was able to answer any questions they had in person, and some offered me feedback on their children.
Miss Christie Social Studies.ppsxOpen House Night Presentation Translated by Coworker
An effective leader develops and provides the school as a resource for families and the community.
An effective leader develops and provides the school as a resource for families and the community.
I try to attend various school events that parents will attend.
I suggest event ideas for parents to join and volunteer opportunities for parents to be involved at school.
Mother's Day Event: Mommy and Me
Mother's Day Event: Mommy and Me
Usually, Korean people will celebrate parents day as a time for both mother and father. Since MLC promotes the American curriculum, I decided to give each parent their own special events separately. Unfortunately, I have no photos of the Mother's day Tea and Painting party, however, you can see that the students practiced their serving skills as above.
We started the event with a normal Circle Time introduction, followed by the tea serving, painting together and then a story about mommy.
Father's Day Event: Daddy and Me
Father's Day Event: Daddy and Me
For some reason, modern society has forgotten how important the father is in the home. My idea for Father's Day was to have them build a home according to their child's desires. Father's took on the responsibility of using the hot glue gun, while their children planned the design.
I had the children start by modeling a regular Circle Time introduction, pour tea to show respect for their Fathers, build a house and then ended with a storybook about daddy. It was a great bonding experience while the father's got to see how their children interact with me as a teacher and a bit of my teaching style.
How can you tell if I understand value and employ the community's culture, social and intellectual and political resources to promote student learning and school improvement?
How can you tell if I understand value and employ the community's culture, social and intellectual and political resources to promote student learning and school improvement?
I love to organize relatable field trips or events and age appropriate instructional practices to promote student learning and school improvement. I use all that I know about. the community's cultural, social, intellectual and political resources to make the events happen, to plan out who does what at the events, and to make sure that the events will impact the students and meaningful ways.
Summer Camp Art Week Field Trip
Summer Camp Art Week Field Trip
Medience 2 Factory by Sejong Culture and Arts Center
Medience 2 Factory by Sejong Culture and Arts Center
2023/07/26-08/20
I found out that there would be a pop-up exhibition that combined art with technology and science. I just had to bring it up to the directors. They gave it a green light and we took the elementary summer campers. While we did have a tour in Korean, the student engaged with teachers and each other in English. There were even two students that were able to do interviews for national television because the news crew was there that day!
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