Uh, no. Every school we've been to has children's work on the walls. There aren't any grades or other personal information on them.

Anonymous wrote:

I am just curious..does that mean teachers can not hang up children's work in the hall anymore? Do parents have to give permission?

Glenallan has a large immigrant population, so some people needed interpreting.
They also spent time answering any questions about registration that we might have.
The classwork only had first names of students on it, and there was no listing of the last name

RedTailHawk wrote:Regarding #'s 6 & 8:

What sort of help are parents looking for? At our school the parents get the paper work several weeks earlier and so most have it completed and it's usually just a matter of turning it in and having some documents photocopied. (I'm the PTA parent helping with kindergarten orientation and wondering if there's something else we should be doing.)

Regarding #8 - I think parents would be interested in seeing work samples but I'm wondering how this would work with FERPA and other privacy concerns. Are these representative samples pulled by the teacher with identifying information blacked out or did they ask parents in they would be willing to share samples of their child's work?

TIA

p.s. I appreciate the suggestions and welcome other ideas of what would improve the process, particularly things the PTA could do.

I am just curious..does that mean teachers can not hang up children's work in the hall anymore? Do parents have to give permission?

Glenallan has a large immigrant population, so some people needed interpreting.
They also spent time answering any questions about registration that we might have.
The classwork only had first names of students on it, and there was no listing of the last name

Regarding #'s 6 & 8:

What sort of help are parents looking for? At our school the parents get the paper work several weeks earlier and so most have it completed and it's usually just a matter of turning it in and having some documents photocopied. (I'm the PTA parent helping with kindergarten orientation and wondering if there's something else we should be doing.)

Regarding #8 - I think parents would be interested in seeing work samples but I'm wondering how this would work with FERPA and other privacy concerns. Are these representative samples pulled by the teacher with identifying information blacked out or did they ask parents in they would be willing to share samples of their child's work?

TIA

p.s. I appreciate the suggestions and welcome other ideas of what would improve the process, particularly things the PTA could do.

Our school's orientation last year did most of those things. The main problem I had was with #6. When I got there, they seemed to be behind. I'm not sure whose fault that was (I'm willing to blame it on late parents). And then we got stuck waiting awhile before being taken back to the classroom (parents went with their child).

Yay! so nice to see this! Already at Glenallan and have neighbors registering this week. Nice to hear the program was so well put together.

1) Greet and welcome parents and child at the door (principal and kindergarten teachers),
2) take a picture of the child, telling them that they want to be able to remember them well,
3) have a premade name tag for the child so they can see you've been expecting them,
4) offer the child some books to look at while they wait,
5) take the child with a few other children to the kindergarten room for screening,
6) help the parent fill out paperwork in a one-on-one setting,
7) promote cool after school programs for kids and parents,
8) show kids and parents slideshow and work samples of kindergarten,
9) have a couple of articulate fourth-graders give a tour of the school,
10) point out special features of the school such as environmentally friendly building,
11) allow tour to go inside classrooms to watch teachers teach and look at rooms, and
12) make sure kids and teachers in building welcome people on tour
Our school, Glenallan rocks!!!!!!