Anonymous
09/04/2012 16:00
Subject: for elementary school teachers - what info do you want on those questionnaires?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Please don't use the form to tell me how far ahead your child is. If your child is ahead, I will see it on my own in the first few weeks. Please don't tell me that little Jimmy is a troublemaker and needs to be kept away from your child. Let me make my own assessments.
Does your child have any prior negative school experiences or insecurities that I need to help him through? Does your child lose focus if seated near the window? Does your child absolutely love to go to the clinic? When faced with something challenging, does your child feel inspired to rise to the challenge or overwhelmed and defeated? What motivates your child? These are all useful insights, and would help me better understand your child.
My kids loves to go to the clinic. What's up with that? I swear, they call me at least once a week. I always assumed it was because DD didn't like school. Are there other kids like that?
Yep. Mine is the same way.
Anonymous
09/04/2012 15:03
Subject: for elementary school teachers - what info do you want on those questionnaires?
OP here. Interesting that last 2 PP have such differing views. I'm assuming that 22:10 didn't send out questionnaires and 13:46 did. Will also assume that if a teacher chose to mail one to each student (as in our case), that teacher is interested in reading the responses... so we will fill it out with anything useful we can think of. Thanks to everyone for their thoughts!
Anonymous
09/04/2012 13:46
Subject: for elementary school teachers - what info do you want on those questionnaires?
I always enjoyed reading the questionnaires. It gave me a sense of the kind of family the child came from, especially since many parents don't send back the forms at all. So, just showing interest is huge. I say, the more you write, the better. Who cares if parents use it as a forum for bragging? I just ignore the unnecessary info and focus on the important stuff. I actually like learning as much as I can about a child's motivational points too, because with the class sizes, sometimes it can be hard to gauge for awhile. Maybe parents see their children differently than teachers do, but it's all helpful information.
Anonymous
09/03/2012 22:10
Subject: for elementary school teachers - what info do you want on those questionnaires?
Being a teacher and a parent myself, I do not see much point in these questionnaires. So, a teacher can see what kind a student is, and so please do not brag about your child. Likewise, a good teacher can see what motivates a child, and as parents we can only hope that a teacher is treating our children with respect and with no bias. The response from parents may be mistakenly put to enforcing labeling. Truthfully, if a teacher asks what parents expect their child to learn during the year, the teachers are asking that at the end of the year parents should bring this question upfront, that is to hold teachers unambigously responsible for their promise to meet parental expectations.
Anonymous
09/02/2012 17:05
Subject: for elementary school teachers - what info do you want on those questionnaires?
Along with what 11:11 said, any issues at home? Dad travel a lot? Grandma just buy? Have a long commute to non-custodial parent every weekend? Etc. etc.
When in doubt, put it on there. Better to have too much info than too little... unless you fill up pages and pages.
When in doubt, put it on there. Better to have too much info than too little... unless you fill up pages and pages.
Anonymous
09/02/2012 13:58
Subject: for elementary school teachers - what info do you want on those questionnaires?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Please don't use the form to tell me how far ahead your child is. If your child is ahead, I will see it on my own in the first few weeks. Please don't tell me that little Jimmy is a troublemaker and needs to be kept away from your child. Let me make my own assessments.
Does your child have any prior negative school experiences or insecurities that I need to help him through? Does your child lose focus if seated near the window? Does your child absolutely love to go to the clinic? When faced with something challenging, does your child feel inspired to rise to the challenge or overwhelmed and defeated? What motivates your child? These are all useful insights, and would help me better understand your child.
My kids loves to go to the clinic. What's up with that? I swear, they call me at least once a week. I always assumed it was because DD didn't like school. Are there other kids like that?
There is at least one in every class
I don't send them unless they really seem sick. Some teachers will send every student no matter what.
Anonymous
09/02/2012 12:51
Subject: for elementary school teachers - what info do you want on those questionnaires?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Please don't use the form to tell me how far ahead your child is. If your child is ahead, I will see it on my own in the first few weeks. Please don't tell me that little Jimmy is a troublemaker and needs to be kept away from your child. Let me make my own assessments.
Does your child have any prior negative school experiences or insecurities that I need to help him through? Does your child lose focus if seated near the window? Does your child absolutely love to go to the clinic? When faced with something challenging, does your child feel inspired to rise to the challenge or overwhelmed and defeated? What motivates your child? These are all useful insights, and would help me better understand your child.
My kids loves to go to the clinic. What's up with that? I swear, they call me at least once a week. I always assumed it was because DD didn't like school. Are there other kids like that?
There is at least one in every class
Anonymous
09/02/2012 12:48
Subject: for elementary school teachers - what info do you want on those questionnaires?
Anonymous wrote:Please don't use the form to tell me how far ahead your child is. If your child is ahead, I will see it on my own in the first few weeks. Please don't tell me that little Jimmy is a troublemaker and needs to be kept away from your child. Let me make my own assessments.
Does your child have any prior negative school experiences or insecurities that I need to help him through? Does your child lose focus if seated near the window? Does your child absolutely love to go to the clinic? When faced with something challenging, does your child feel inspired to rise to the challenge or overwhelmed and defeated? What motivates your child? These are all useful insights, and would help me better understand your child.
My kids loves to go to the clinic. What's up with that? I swear, they call me at least once a week. I always assumed it was because DD didn't like school. Are there other kids like that?
Anonymous
09/02/2012 11:15
Subject: for elementary school teachers - what info do you want on those questionnaires?
Thanks to 11:11 teacher for the helpful suggestions. BTW, I meant to say don't put DS next to Y kid because they tend to talk or be disruptive together, not that Y kid is bad. DS and other kid who will be in his class are good friends but manage to talk talk talk and get in trouble for it, so I figured that might be useful info for the next seating change.
Anonymous
09/02/2012 11:11
Subject: for elementary school teachers - what info do you want on those questionnaires?
Please don't use the form to tell me how far ahead your child is. If your child is ahead, I will see it on my own in the first few weeks. Please don't tell me that little Jimmy is a troublemaker and needs to be kept away from your child. Let me make my own assessments.
Does your child have any prior negative school experiences or insecurities that I need to help him through? Does your child lose focus if seated near the window? Does your child absolutely love to go to the clinic? When faced with something challenging, does your child feel inspired to rise to the challenge or overwhelmed and defeated? What motivates your child? These are all useful insights, and would help me better understand your child.
Does your child have any prior negative school experiences or insecurities that I need to help him through? Does your child lose focus if seated near the window? Does your child absolutely love to go to the clinic? When faced with something challenging, does your child feel inspired to rise to the challenge or overwhelmed and defeated? What motivates your child? These are all useful insights, and would help me better understand your child.
Anonymous
09/02/2012 10:51
Subject: for elementary school teachers - what info do you want on those questionnaires?
Many teachers send out a questionnaire, presumably to try to help them get to know the kids. But what information do you want us parents to put on these forms? Obvious ones would be things like allergies, oversensitivity to X, or don't put DS next to Y kid because they tend to get in trouble, but beyond that, how much detail do you really want? I don't want to be the PITA parent who fills up the page with information that's just going to be laughed at. Suggestions appreciated.