Student Led Conferences

                All year you have been preparing for Westchester’s new big thing. Student Led Conferences. There have been many different reactions among the students and teachers both positive and negative. These Student Led Conferences are on a trial run this year. Some people may wonder what I’m talking about. Tomorrow, all Westchester Middle School students will be presenting their work in their portfolio to their parents. Unlike traditional conferences, the children are the people in charge and a teacher is there just to keep things on track. These conferences are also mandatory, unlike regular conferences.  One unique thing to these conferences is they are designed to make students take ownership of their work and they have to reflect on it. This is supposed to help improve the work ethic. It should be a new, but beneficial way for the students to connect with their work, and understand it. “Student led Conferences are going to be a chance to show my parents what I am doing in school,” said Kathryn Grier, a seventh grader. These Conferences were brought to Westchester by Mrs. Jenkins as an opportunity to better our school. Hopefully, they will be beneficial.

Elisabeth Bachmann