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[½ÃÄ«°í ´ÙÀ̾] PT Conference Day
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Twice a year we have a Parent-Teacher Conference where parents receive their children's report card and meet with teachers, counselors, or administrators. The meetings are arranged between teachers and parents mainly to discuss individually their children's school work and the amount of progress being made. About two months after the new school year started, we had our first PT Conference: it took place in the afternoon, from 12 to 6p.m., so as to enable more parents to participate by avoiding the busier morning time. It was quite common to see both parents accompanying their child during these conferences.
Let me note here how very different this situation is from the schools in Korea. That is, here we have no home-classroom, and thus no home-classroom teacher, to station students in classrooms by the level of their academic year as is done in Korea. Because teachers and classrooms are assigned on the basis of academic curricula, a system quite similar to that of college. All of the teachers, therefore, prepare to welcome and meet with the parents in the classrooms where each of them teach.
During the recent conferences, the parents wished to know how their children were coping with their study in each of their classes and if they showed any special interest or strength in certain academic subjects or programs. They didn't look overly concerned about the grades their children received and didn't outwardly celebrate any highly successful results. Rather, most of them seemed to be both relaxed and attentive in discussing the meeting agenda-items prepared by teachers and also the future-oriented questions they had about their children. Such an atmosphere helped make the whole event to be delightfully encouraging and meaningful, I thought.
At the coming second conference scheduled for this April, as an Algebra teacher I'll have to meet with the parents for the first time. Naturally, I'm nervous but at the same time very excited about this experience.
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