Week Three: MHS Open House

Morgantown High School’s open house was a new experience for me entirely. As a student my parents and I never went to our school’s open house because it wasn't that much of a concern unless you were freshman. The open house started with each grade meeting in a bigger room to talk to the counselors about the requirement for the grade level. Since we have an 11th grade homeroom, we were in the 11th grade meeting. We found out that by the time students are applying for colleges their 12th grade grades won’t be on the transcripts so the 11th grade grades are what really matter.  They also went over graduation requirements because by the 11th grade year they should know what other classes they need to take to finish up and be ready to graduate.

Then we broke up and since my teacher and I teach both 10th and 12th grade we had two meetings with our 12th grade parents and 2 meetings with our 10th grade so that we could go over what we will be teaching and parents can ask any questions they have. It was a really nice opportunity for me because I was able to explain what I am planning to do my research on (student- teacher writing conferences). I explained that I will be meeting with the students individually to help them with their writing and I will be going over plagiarism and the writing process.

It was also nice for the parents to meet me because I know many of them have doubts when it comes to a student- teacher teaching their children. It was a moment to prove myself and I believe that I did really well.

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