Student led conferences give students an authentic opportunity to share their growth as a learner. As students take a more active role in their educational goals, they will become more independent, self-directed learners.
Student-Led Parent Conferences. This site provides an outline defining student-let conferences, the benefits, a description of the process, guidelines for selecting students? work, and references for more information.
Tools for Student-Led Conferences. Reflection is an important part of the conference. This site provides tools for student and parent reflections.
Student Led Conference Checklist. This is a sample of a tool designed to assist students as they conduct their conference.
Portfolio Assessment. This site provides many tools and ideas for developing a portfolio and conducting a student let conference.
A School-Wide Approach to Student Led Conferences. This resource has numerous graphic organizers to assist in preparing and conducting student led conferences.
Student-Led Conferences: Fostering Accountability through Self-Assessment. This site provides information and graphic organizers for portfolio development and conducting the conference.
Cultivating the Continuous Improvement Classroom: Student-Led Conferences. A valuable PowerPoint presentation that gives general information about student-led conferences and the plus and minuses involved.
The Student-Led Conference. Provides an overview and a plethora of graphic organizers for implementing the student led conference.
There is also a power point presentation and more information about data collection that can be accessed at Continuous Improvement Tutorials for Student-led Conferences.
Student-led Conferences: a Growing Trend. This site discusses student responsibility, and the advantages/disadvantages to student-led conferences.
Vancouver Island Schools. This site defines student led conferences and the benefits for students, teachers, and parents. It gives a format for preparing and conducting the conference and examples of what student led conferences look like at different grade levels.
Student-led Conferencing: Empowering students. This online article is a thorough account of one teacher's process for student led conferences. She presents a time line, examples of parent and child reflections, and advice for successful conferences. Graphic organizers included.
Student Led Conferences: Power Point presentation. Another helpful visual presentation.
Student-led Parent Conferencing as a Self Assessment and Goal Setting Strategy. An action research project by a Canadian teacher who wanted to know if student-led conferences would improve student initiative, raise learning standards through goal setting, and increase parent involvement among her first and second grade students. Very helpful article and includes some planning sheets.
Caity's Conference: Kids show their stuff at student-led parent conferences. Draws on practices of elementary and middle schools in Washington and Oregon to demonstrate the benefits of student-led parent conferences. Discusses parent, teacher, and student attitudes toward student-directed conferences; student portfolios, projects, and presentations; one school's fall goal-setting process that sets the stage for student work and the spring conference; and related staff development needs
Effective Student-led Conference. Helps develop a rubric to evaluate how effectively a student communicates with parents/audience.
