assembly students’ families offers a fascinating glimpse into their domestic lives and helps me understand their behaviour in class
The long hours crammed behind a desk. The hand-shaking. The attempt to hold a polite grin when you’re desperate for a loo break. Parents’ evenings aren’t generally popular with teachers,but I love them.
It’s not praising students in front of their families that I luxuriate in so much. It’s not the looks on my pupils’ faces – from delight to outright awe – when I whip out their exercise books as evidence. It’s not even the crucial progress we can effect in a good parental assembly, where no one can dispute what was said because everyone was there.
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Source: theguardian.com