Professional Competency 10

Co-operate with the family and education partners in the community.

Promote and encourage parental involvement in their children’s learning and school life, and contribute to sustainable partnerships between the school and its community.

Third Field Experience: Georges P. Vanier Elementary School

Aug to Dec 2022

Throughout my field experience, I made sure to keep in contact with my students’ parents to keep them up to date with our educational plans. To do so, I sent emails weekly to inform parents of evaluations coming up and give them resources to support their children in their studying at home. I also responded to parent emails in a timely manner and kept a professional tone throughout. 

In addition, my Cooperating Teacher and I kept a detailed log of non-compliant behaviour on the Mozaik Portail platform. The messages sent there are kept in the students’ dossier and are sent to the parents. On this platform, we also made it a point to send positive behaviour messages, to encourage our students that were behaving well.  

Finally, when I attended parent-teacher conferences, I connected with all parents that were present. I provided them with traces of their child’s work. When needed, I encouraged the parents to use resources to support their children’s learning of the English language. I also followed up after the parent-teacher conferences to ensure that parents felt that they were supported as well in their child’s academic journey.