Meet the Parents

On Wednesday night, York had an open house, where all the parents come in the evening to follow in their son or daughter's footsteps. They are given their kid's schedule and spend 6 minutes in each of their kid's classes. We put a PowerPoint together for each of our two preps - chem and honors chem - to show to the parents. The PowerPoint was made easy with the Google Chrome "Explain and Send" extension. It allows you to take a screenshot of your screen, crop it, and mark it up with circles, arrows and text to highlight the important parts of a webpage.

Luckily, I didn't have to do a polygraph test.

Megan used the entire 6 minutes to talk about her background (and I introduced myself as well), what we do in class each day, how the students are graded, and where online resources are. There is a lot to cover and only a few minutes to do it, so you have to think about what is important for the parents to hear. I would guess that the two things they care about most are 1) how can they follow up with their kid and help them stay on top of assignments and 2) where can they find the resources if their son or daughter misses class or loses a worksheet. These were the two things we focused on.