Student-led conferences at the end of the year allow grade 5 students to showcase their learning and growth over the entire school year. Students will share how they achieved their learning goals and identify areas of strength and improvement. They will present evidence from all subject areas and activities to parents to demonstrate their learning. The conferences are meant to be student-led discussions, rather than recitations, so students have been practicing with teachers and peers to feel confident presenting and discussing their work.

1. Student-led Conferences
Grade 5s
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2. This conference is at the end of the year.
What is its purpose?
● Allows students to show not just what but
HOW they have learned.
● Allows students to share how their goal
setting has worked or not worked.
● Allows students to show their growth as
learners.
● Allows students to share how they feel
about their learning.

3. Well in advance...
Collect student work, hard copy, digital....
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4. Decide what to say...
Students decide what to say about their
learning, using JIS Values, Dispositions.
Talk about Goals set earlier in the year....
Talk about Growth...
Organising ideas google doc.
Then, find the evidence to support those
statements! Evidence can come from...
anywhere....

5. All subject areas, after school activities, special
events.....
Recording sheet
Then, arrange or organise
that evidence and work out
what to actually say.
For a week prior....
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practise, practise, practise....
with a peer, with a teacher... so that the end result is a
confident student who is articulate when talking about the
learning and who knows the "topic" well enough to answer
questions. This should be a discussion rather than learned
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Quality of video is not great... but it's only 1.5 mins...
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smartboard - which won't be the case this year.
Teacher is at own desk, tidying up Google Drive
folders.... drinking coffee.....
You get the idea...
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