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by Mrs. Nicole Weber
Our students, like most, struggle between wanting adults to make decisions for them and wanting to wrest control from those in charge so they can be responsible for themselves. We want our students to learn to exercise choice, take responsibility for their learning, and do their best work. At our school we saw an opportunity to help them reach these goals by implementing student-led conferences last year, enabling students to be directly involved in their assessment process. We want our students to feel empowered and have ownership for their learning.
The Benefits of Student-Led Conferences
In a recent New York Times opinion piece, Monica Martinez wrote, “Parent-teacher conferences were a good idea in concept, but they reflect a tradition that is too centered on adults. Flipping these conferences to be student-led empowers the student and facilitates a partnership between the teacher and parents that is focused on supporting what the student identifies as her strengths and challenges in learning, not what the teacher or parent identifies for the student.” Students are responsible and should own their own learning-who better to share this with parents then the learner themselves!
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