Hello,
I’m a student teacher and recently I had an opportunity to attend an annual review for one of my students. I felt that I did not have a good experience since the studnets mother did not attend the meeting. I found that the studnets regular education teacher and soical worker were more positive about the student. I thought that the special education teacher and the director of special education would be more postive but the opposite occured. I was wondering if anyone else has gone through the same type of experience? I would appreciate your responses wheater they are postive or negative.
Thank You
Re: Annual Reviews
one reason parents don’t show up is that most of us work and most teachers won’t meet outside school hours, only give 30 minutes for a meeting of 8 - 10 people, don’t give ample notice that a meeting is even going to take place and after years of dealing with IEP’s I can tell you as a parent our voices are mostly ignored and so I imagine parents that don’t have the foritude to fight the system figure, “What is the point”. Also if you’re not able to wade through the legal maze to figure out what your rights are, what your child needs it can be intimidating and overwhelming. When educators made the process more parent friendly and start taking the thoughts of parents seriously, then I imagine more parents will ateend.
Your meeting sounds like an ordinary meeting! I’m lucky if I get half of the parents to show up. I’m constantly re-scheduling meetings and/or having the meeting without the parent.
As to some of the staff being negative…that’s the human nature. Not everyone in a meeting is going to agree all of the time. Sometimes you have to be something of a diplomat in those meetings.