Ask these questions to when you meet with your child's principal
Ask these questions to when you meet with your child's principal
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How can we improve my child’s experience of school?
Relationships: Do my child’s teachers, and others who might serve as my child’s teachers, know about my child and my child’s interests and talents?
Relevance: Does my child find what the school is teaching to be relevant to my child’s interests?
Authenticity: Is the learning and work that my child does regarded as significant outside of school by experts, our family, community members, and employers?
Application: Does my child have opportunities to apply what my child is learning in real-world settings and contexts?
Choice: Does my child have real choices about what, when, and how my child will learn and demonstrate new skills?
Challenge: Does my child feel appropriately challenged in the learning and work?
Play: Does my child have opportunities to explore and to make mistakes, and learn from them, without being branded as a failure?
Practice: Does my child have opportunities to engage in deep and sustained practice of those skills that my child needs to learn?
Time: Does my child have enough time to learn at my child’s own pace?
Timing: Can my child pursue learning outside of the standard sequence?
From BigPicture.org and Leaving to Learn by Elliot Washor and Charles Mojkowski
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