Tips for Terrific Parent Conferences
Help for Special Educators
English - November 27, 2019 06:00 - 18 minutes - 12.8 MB - ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsArts Education Self-Improvement special education teacher teaching ideas sped resource sdc autism inclusion iep help slp self-contained Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Whether you are a special educator in a resource, inclusion or self-contained setting, this episode has tons of tips and ideas to make parent conference week go by as smooth as possible. The first half focuses on self-contained teachers holding conferences in their classrooms. Then the second half is for resource/inclusion teachers who need to attend conferences in a variety of general ed classes all over the school. In addition, the scheduling strategy described might also work for RTI or SST teachers, literacy coaches or administrators who need to attend conferences in many grades and classes. Some of the topics include:
SchedulingWhat to say to parents/guardiansHow get parents to attendHow the student can participate (not quite a student-led conference, but our students with special needs can definitely participate!)Keep organizedTeacher and parent remindersGo to https://lisagoodell.com/podcast19 for the full show notes and links.