Student-Parent Conferences at a Distance
This will be my first post about the creativity of Michael Lambert. There will be many more as I worked with him for five years at the Upper Primary of HKIS. Many of the best practices that I posted in the Teacher Toolkit were ones that I picked up from observing Mike in action.
Working at Concordia International School in Shanghai, Mike like many teachers of students in China works to digitally communicate with parents as they are often away from home with their work. He uses the Web and e-mail to share information as well as video portfolios that students take home to their parents. Mike recently used Skype to manage three parent conferences that many schools routinely have at the end of the first quarter of school. I understand that one had the father at the office while the while the mother and student were at school with Mike. This is a reasonable option that pulls in the traveling parent who might otherwise miss many school activities.
