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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What teacher is “printing out lesson plans” for anyone let alone a parent?

OP, please share what expectations and desires you shared that fixed your children’s classrooms. It would be super helpful for those of us working in struggling schools and with new teachers to know how to instantly fix them! 🙄[/quote]

Not OP but I doubt it was an actual lesson plan.

Our child's 1st grade teacher periodically sends home sheets or package that explain what the kids are learning in math or reading/phonics. We find it useful, especially in math since we didn't learn the "new math" in school and thus some of the strategies and techniques they teach are totally foreign to us (this is a very common issue for parents in elementary school). I also appreciate these handouts because it's just interesting and useful to know what my kid is working on. When we know they are working on money and currency, we can incorporate that into stuff at home. Same with units of measurement.

I think parents sometimes don't pay attention or care that much about the details of what kids are learning in school, so OP's teacher may not have been sharing that stuff with all parents routinely, but when OP asked about it, the teacher had parent handouts and materials to share that explain what the curriculum is. This is standard and you can actually find a lot of those materials online if you go looking for them if you know the name of the curriculum being used. And teachers will tell you the name of any curriculum they are using if you ask! In fact they probably already shared this with you at an orientation day or BTS night but people often zone out or don't realize that this information can be really helpful if you want to get more involved in your child's education. I sometimes go online to look at materials from the reading curriculum, to find descriptions of Common Core standards to better understand my kids' report cards, or to find out what my kid will be working on in the next grade so I can do some support over the summer if I think it would be necessary or helpful.[/quote]

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