THINKING ABOUT THE THESIS:
After looking over the parent handbook (in which I originally planned to turn that into a digital presentation), I found that the handbook included numerous education codes and policies. It is a lot of wording that would be difficult to put into a digital presentation. Let's face it, who wants to talk about or demonstrate examples of suspension, expulsion, harassment, etc. on DVD or on the Internet. I think it's better to keep that information on paper.
I think overall, I want the parents and students to connect with our school and staff right at the beginning of the year. I want them to hear expectations from the principal and all grade levels, so they get an understanding of how serious we are about their education and discipline.
With this in mind, I am thinking now of putting together a welcome digital presentation for parents and students to watch the first week of school. I want these families to be familiar, comfortable, and ready for a tough year ahead. With most issues being discussed on the presentation, there shouldn't be too many surprises throughout the year.
***I also picked up some theses at the library to get an idea of what's ahead of me. It's been helpful in beginning the introduction to the thesis.
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We did something similar to this at my school the year we became a Law Magnet School. We prepared a pamphlet (much more appealing to the eye than the hand book codes) and handed them out on Back to School night. After the principal made his opening speech, most teachers went to their rooms but we kept the parents there and did a power point presentation that presented the goals, procedure and highlights of the upcoming year. Then each teacher spoke briefly of their particular classroom curriculum. I think it went over fairly well and yet we never did it again. I have no idea where that power point is or I would forward it to you.
ReplyDeleteOooohhh...sounds interesting. There are so many expectations for our school, and we assume that the parents will just pick it up. It would be nice to pull them all together to build conversation and gain input from their end. Hopefully this DVD won't be a one time thing. I plan to continue with it with just minor adjustments from year to year.
ReplyDeleteHeidi, the PDAs I am talking about are palm pilots. PDA stands for personal digital assistants. They start out as digital date books but can create documents and share with other PDAs.
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