Student Led Conference

Student Led Conference: Empowerment and Ownership

The preschoolers becoming in charge is a way to create opportunities for reflection, engagement and agency.

As we were getting ready for the Student Led Conference, the preschoolers planned with Ms. Faye the work samples, activities and the areas that they wanted to share to their parents.

They practiced together with their friends on how to go through the conference.

During the Student Led Conference, they shared their portfolio, which they organized in their UOI notebook and in Seesaw.

They shared their strengths, weakness and what their learning goals are.

They communicated their progress and learning processes to their parents.

They challenged each other.

They taught them different strategies they used at school which may be very different on how the parents learned it before.

What made it really special was that they shared the night with their parents in celebration of the wonderful year they spent learning in Preschool!

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