Perky Preschool

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 won...

  Tell me and I forget, Teach me and I remember, Involve me and I learn. - Benjamin Franklin - The highest evidence of learning is when a child is able to transfer the knowledge and skills learned to others.  And who else would be the perfect people to show that the year spent learning at school is worth while and meaningful? Of course, none other than their own parents.  Through the 3-day event of Student Led Conferences (SLCs) and The Preschool's Animal Exhibit, they were able to showcase the process of their learning. It was a beautiful sight to see the parents welcomed back inside the school to visit and see how their child progressed in all learning areas.  For preschool, they started in the classroom, wherein the students showed their parents the classroom, works that they are proud of in Literacy, Numeracy, UOI, and portfolio.  This experience enabled the students to address the SLC's objectives. LEARNING TO KNOW.. To understand oneself as a learner and h...