This week we had a wonderful Zoom class with Chantelle from BCEd Access.

What stuck with me the most from her talk, is that as a parent, she believes that one of the most important things for a teacher to do at the beginning of the year is to reach out to the parents of thir students to see if there is anything they parents would like them to know about the kid. Additionally, the first email home to the parents should be about something good that happened, for example, “Your son _______ was so helpful today in our ______ lesson.” This will hopefully start you, the teacher, on the right foot with your parents. Good communication with the parents is important as it shows that the teacher truly cares about the student and the family. The final point that stuck with me was that we should confer with our students about their IEP’s, so long as the parent is consenting to their child knowing about their IEP and its contents.