Anonymous
10/18/2022 21:52
Subject: APS Beginning of Year testing results? ES
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:We don't have ours yet and it is a bit frustrating because I'd rather be prepared to talk about he my kid is doing. Honestly, I'm not thrilled about having to have an in person, workday only meeting (our slots were 2-430 or 10-12). If I am making the effort to go to the conference, I would love to have data to be prepared and make the most of it.
Make the most of it for you, or for your child’s education?
For my kids' education. If they're struggling in an area, I want to talk about it to see how we can support them. If I don't know where the teacher is assessing weaknesses, it's hard for me to be prepared to ask the right questions about what we need to do.
Maybe you could trust that your child’s teacher isn’t a total dingbat who doesn’t know how to teach, and that the questions they are asking during the conference instead of showing youngest scores are because the answers have value for educating your child.
Anonymous
10/18/2022 21:36
Subject: APS Beginning of Year testing results? ES
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:We don't have ours yet and it is a bit frustrating because I'd rather be prepared to talk about he my kid is doing. Honestly, I'm not thrilled about having to have an in person, workday only meeting (our slots were 2-430 or 10-12). If I am making the effort to go to the conference, I would love to have data to be prepared and make the most of it.
Make the most of it for you, or for your child’s education?
For my kids' education. If they're struggling in an area, I want to talk about it to see how we can support them. If I don't know where the teacher is assessing weaknesses, it's hard for me to be prepared to ask the right questions about what we need to do.
Anonymous
10/18/2022 19:50
Subject: APS Beginning of Year testing results? ES
Anonymous wrote:We don't have ours yet and it is a bit frustrating because I'd rather be prepared to talk about he my kid is doing. Honestly, I'm not thrilled about having to have an in person, workday only meeting (our slots were 2-430 or 10-12). If I am making the effort to go to the conference, I would love to have data to be prepared and make the most of it.
Make the most of it for you, or for your child’s education?
Anonymous
10/18/2022 19:45
Subject: APS Beginning of Year testing results? ES
We don't have ours yet and it is a bit frustrating because I'd rather be prepared to talk about he my kid is doing. Honestly, I'm not thrilled about having to have an in person, workday only meeting (our slots were 2-430 or 10-12). If I am making the effort to go to the conference, I would love to have data to be prepared and make the most of it.
Anonymous
10/18/2022 15:24
Subject: Re:APS Beginning of Year testing results? ES
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I sincerely hope the fall conferences are not totally useless again. Last year there was zero insight on anything academic related. I don't really need to talk to the teacher for 15 minutes about what my kid likes about school and who her friends are. Yes, the social-emotional is important and deserves some air time but hold yourselves accountable APS and tell me where my kid is at skill-wise and what we need to work on or what's going well. The fall conferences did not used to be like this.
Fall conferences are typically more about the teacher getting information from you about your kid than providing significant information about your child’s academic achievement. The latter is more the focus of the spring conferences.
This seems crazy to wait until spring to talk about academics when you're through 3/4 of the year at that point.
If there’s an issue I’m sure they will talk to you before then.
Anonymous
10/18/2022 14:45
Subject: APS Beginning of Year testing results? ES
Some parents are looking for things to complain about. In lower Elementary, there’s a very little they can tell you, except for the few assessments they have done. It really is ticket to know things about your child that will help them help your children. You do not have to wait until the end of year conferences to check in with your teacher. If you have concerns, and you do that, that’s on you.
Anonymous
10/18/2022 13:39
Subject: Re:APS Beginning of Year testing results? ES
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I sincerely hope the fall conferences are not totally useless again. Last year there was zero insight on anything academic related. I don't really need to talk to the teacher for 15 minutes about what my kid likes about school and who her friends are. Yes, the social-emotional is important and deserves some air time but hold yourselves accountable APS and tell me where my kid is at skill-wise and what we need to work on or what's going well. The fall conferences did not used to be like this.
Fall conferences are typically more about the teacher getting information from you about your kid than providing significant information about your child’s academic achievement. The latter is more the focus of the spring conferences.
This seems crazy to wait until spring to talk about academics when you're through 3/4 of the year at that point.
Anonymous
10/18/2022 12:46
Subject: Re:APS Beginning of Year testing results? ES
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I sincerely hope the fall conferences are not totally useless again. Last year there was zero insight on anything academic related. I don't really need to talk to the teacher for 15 minutes about what my kid likes about school and who her friends are. Yes, the social-emotional is important and deserves some air time but hold yourselves accountable APS and tell me where my kid is at skill-wise and what we need to work on or what's going well. The fall conferences did not used to be like this.
Fall conferences are typically more about the teacher getting information from you about your kid than providing significant information about your child’s academic achievement. The latter is more the focus of the spring conferences.
I have older kids and no, they used to share the first reading assessment with you at the conference and show you writing samples etc. And yes ask you questions about your kid too. But it was a two-way sharing of information.
Then why did APS move them from the beginning of October to the end of October? When they made that move the stated reason was to give more time for assessments and so the teacher would be in a better position to talk about academic strengths and weaknesses. You have older kids. Perhaps you had the tell me about your child conferences in early October. They moved to late October and STILL can’t tell me anything.
They got through the assessments in the first month of school when the conferences were earlier. And they started school after labor day! It used to be just PALS. That might be faster to give to all the kids?
Anonymous
10/18/2022 12:35
Subject: Re:APS Beginning of Year testing results? ES
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I sincerely hope the fall conferences are not totally useless again. Last year there was zero insight on anything academic related. I don't really need to talk to the teacher for 15 minutes about what my kid likes about school and who her friends are. Yes, the social-emotional is important and deserves some air time but hold yourselves accountable APS and tell me where my kid is at skill-wise and what we need to work on or what's going well. The fall conferences did not used to be like this.
Fall conferences are typically more about the teacher getting information from you about your kid than providing significant information about your child’s academic achievement. The latter is more the focus of the spring conferences.
I have older kids and no, they used to share the first reading assessment with you at the conference and show you writing samples etc. And yes ask you questions about your kid too. But it was a two-way sharing of information.
Then why did APS move them from the beginning of October to the end of October? When they made that move the stated reason was to give more time for assessments and so the teacher would be in a better position to talk about academic strengths and weaknesses. You have older kids. Perhaps you had the tell me about your child conferences in early October. They moved to late October and STILL can’t tell me anything.
Anonymous
10/18/2022 12:18
Subject: Re:APS Beginning of Year testing results? ES
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I sincerely hope the fall conferences are not totally useless again. Last year there was zero insight on anything academic related. I don't really need to talk to the teacher for 15 minutes about what my kid likes about school and who her friends are. Yes, the social-emotional is important and deserves some air time but hold yourselves accountable APS and tell me where my kid is at skill-wise and what we need to work on or what's going well. The fall conferences did not used to be like this.
Fall conferences are typically more about the teacher getting information from you about your kid than providing significant information about your child’s academic achievement. The latter is more the focus of the spring conferences.
I have older kids and no, they used to share the first reading assessment with you at the conference and show you writing samples etc. And yes ask you questions about your kid too. But it was a two-way sharing of information.
Anonymous
10/18/2022 11:47
Subject: Re:APS Beginning of Year testing results? ES
Anonymous wrote:I sincerely hope the fall conferences are not totally useless again. Last year there was zero insight on anything academic related. I don't really need to talk to the teacher for 15 minutes about what my kid likes about school and who her friends are. Yes, the social-emotional is important and deserves some air time but hold yourselves accountable APS and tell me where my kid is at skill-wise and what we need to work on or what's going well. The fall conferences did not used to be like this.
Fall conferences are typically more about the teacher getting information from you about your kid than providing significant information about your child’s academic achievement. The latter is more the focus of the spring conferences.
Anonymous
10/18/2022 10:57
Subject: Re:APS Beginning of Year testing results? ES
I sincerely hope the fall conferences are not totally useless again. Last year there was zero insight on anything academic related. I don't really need to talk to the teacher for 15 minutes about what my kid likes about school and who her friends are. Yes, the social-emotional is important and deserves some air time but hold yourselves accountable APS and tell me where my kid is at skill-wise and what we need to work on or what's going well. The fall conferences did not used to be like this.
Anonymous
10/18/2022 10:16
Subject: Re:APS Beginning of Year testing results? ES
We got them for one kid at her parent teacher conference (held early). The other brought home a DIEBELs report, but not a math report in her Friday folder last week.
Nothing on ParentVue yet for either. I expect it will be posted there after conferences.
Nothing on ParentVue yet for either. I expect it will be posted there after conferences.
Anonymous
10/18/2022 10:12
Subject: APS Beginning of Year testing results? ES
Tuckahoe has not. I’m going to ask for them in an email. We’ve been to fall conferences in the past where the teacher told us they were not allowed to tell us the scores. Very frustrating.
Anonymous
10/18/2022 10:02
Subject: APS Beginning of Year testing results? ES
I can't seem to find them in Parent Vue. Has your school posted them?