I was quite nervous when I began my preparations for Parent Teacher Conferences. I still get a bit nervous when dealing with parents in general because I feel I need to make an amazing impression. Up to this point I think I have done a good job at that. I was nervous about how some of the parents might react to their students grades, because I had a difficult time giving some students an S simply because that was the 3rd possible grade out of 4 and to some people that would seem below average even though that is “on grade level”.
As I was driving to school that morning I tried to go through what I would say to particular parents, how to say “you child constantly makes noises that disrupts the entire class” in a nice, appropriate way. I probably rehearsed what I was going to say to every one of my parents that morning. And while t ...