Use assessment tools to conduct successful family-teacher conferences

As educators prepare to meet parents, guardians, and families for conferences, the focus should be on creating student-centered sessions. Sharing student progress using portfolios and other Microsoft tools that show student growth is essential to creating future goals for each student.

• Teams is a learning platform where students prepare documents that showcase their learning using OneNote Notebook, PowerPoint, and Sway.
• Insights helps educators, parents, guardians, and families visually understand student progress, providing a wealth of information on which they reflect together and use as a basis for how to move students forward into the next school year.
• Teams, Calendar, Outlook, and Bookings assist educators with scheduling conferences with ease.
• The translator app provides multi-language support for school conversations by creating a space for teachers and parents of various languages to communicate efficiently.

This learning path helps educators better understand their classes as a whole as well as individual student progress. With detailed information, educators better plan and conduct successful conference sessions that create a stronger home-school connection.

Learning objectives

• Explain how Microsoft digital tools are used to collaborate intentionally with students and families.
• Describe ways to understand where their classrooms and students are in their learning progress.
• Identify strategies to plan and conduct parent conferences centered on student growth and the enhancement of future success opportunities.