Student-Led Parent Conferences

Abstract

This chapter describes a unique model used by one teacher educator to provide an authentic process for assessing student learning and observing how students represent themselves as teachers to their families. The student-led parent conference is a means of making learning more viable and more intrinsically motivating because it incorporates elements of choice and a real audience for evaluation. A powerful by-product is the credibility it can give to at least one recommendation university professors often make about what classroom teachers should do.

Citation

Alleman, J. (2005), "Student-Led Parent Conferences", Brophy, J. and Pinnegar, S. (Ed.) Learning from Research on Teaching: Perspective, Methodology, and Representation (Advances in Research on Teaching, Vol. 11), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 41-73. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1479-3687(05)11002-5