Teacher conferences in a departmentalized school

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Logistically, its not possible in a departmentalized situation to have a conference with both teachers. I do think its a fair expectation that the teacher shares more data points than a MAP score, but a separate conference can be a lot, especially when schools don't allocate the time for it..

How is it logistically impossible? Run the conference with both teachers present. Presumably there are multiple children with the same pair of teachers.

It's not logistically impossible -- it's just not sufficiently resourced.

Let's say that me and my departmentalized party each have 25 kids:
50 students at 15 mins per student is 750 minutes is 12.5 hours without any breaks between conferences. With 5 min breaks in between that's over 16.5 hours, or 2+ teacher work days.

Do you want your kids at home an extra day, day and a half for each student to have time for conferences? Asking sincerely bc that would be how it could be possible logistically.

Our school does combined conferences (3 departmentalized teachers) in one day back-to-back-to-back for 10 minutes each, so it takes them nearly 11 hours to get through everyone. They did it, gave me solid (if quick) insight & generally seemed to be rockstars. In any case, it can be done in one day; just not in 8 hours.

Don't call people rockstars for working hours over their contract. It normalizes time abuse of teachers

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Logistically, its not possible in a departmentalized situation to have a conference with both teachers. I do think its a fair expectation that the teacher shares more data points than a MAP score, but a separate conference can be a lot, especially when schools don't allocate the time for it..

How is it logistically impossible? Run the conference with both teachers present. Presumably there are multiple children with the same pair of teachers.

It's not logistically impossible -- it's just not sufficiently resourced.

Let's say that me and my departmentalized party each have 25 kids:
50 students at 15 mins per student is 750 minutes is 12.5 hours without any breaks between conferences. With 5 min breaks in between that's over 16.5 hours, or 2+ teacher work days.

Do you want your kids at home an extra day, day and a half for each student to have time for conferences? Asking sincerely bc that would be how it could be possible logistically.

Our school does combined conferences (3 departmentalized teachers) in one day back-to-back-to-back for 10 minutes each, so it takes them nearly 11 hours to get through everyone. They did it, gave me solid (if quick) insight & generally seemed to be rockstars. In any case, it can be done in one day; just not in 8 hours.

Don't call people rockstars for working hours over their contract. It normalizes time abuse of teachers

+1
Back-to-back meetings for 11 hours? Sounds awful.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Logistically, its not possible in a departmentalized situation to have a conference with both teachers. I do think its a fair expectation that the teacher shares more data points than a MAP score, but a separate conference can be a lot, especially when schools don't allocate the time for it..

How is it logistically impossible? Run the conference with both teachers present. Presumably there are multiple children with the same pair of teachers.

It's not logistically impossible -- it's just not sufficiently resourced.

If say each teacher had 25 kids then you'd need to figure out 50 time slots where they could meet together.