JoyfulMama Posted May 13, 2010 Share Posted May 13, 2010 FYI: In PA students are required to have an annual evaluation in addition to preparing a portfolio to provide to the school district. I can't imagine not preparing them, as far as sitting and looking through their portfolio with them, having them talk to me about what is in their portfolio. I'm looking at the eval like a show and tell time. Anyone else do anything? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paula in PA Posted May 13, 2010 Share Posted May 13, 2010 I didn't last year, for her first eval, but I'm seriously thinking about doing something like that for this year, especially since we're changing evaluators. I'm hoping it will help her be a little more comfortable, since she's generally shy with new people at first. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iammommy Posted May 13, 2010 Share Posted May 13, 2010 We have a wonderful evaluator, a homeschooling mom herself. I'm very comfortable just going in cold. She has a great way with kids. My ds tends to get nervous over things like evals, so we just go visit her and enjoy it. Good luck! nan...who wishes PA would relax with the homeschooling regs a bit Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
5knights3maidens Posted May 13, 2010 Share Posted May 13, 2010 No. We have the same evalutor for years. When we have to change (for 9th grade), I will not prepare them. They do just fine. ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Momma2Many66 Posted May 13, 2010 Share Posted May 13, 2010 We are from Pennsylvania and our family has used the same evaluator for the last 9 years, so we are very comfortable with him. I never go over anything "schoolish" with the kids ahead of time, I do however remind them to use their manners, talk loud and clear so they can be heard and relax and smile. Our evaluator is great with the kids and he makes the evaluations very easy to do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NanceXToo Posted May 14, 2010 Share Posted May 14, 2010 No, I don't. I'm from PA too as you know lol and last year was my daughter's very first evaluation (she was in third grade at the time; I'd pulled her out of public school). I didn't do anything to prepare her for it, and it went just fine. We were comfortable, he certainly didn't start quizzing her or anything along those lines. He looked through her schoolwork and said we were doing a good job and he gave us our letter and that was about the extent of it. We'll be using him again this year and I see no need to 'prepare' her for it this time, either. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vettechmomof2 Posted May 14, 2010 Share Posted May 14, 2010 no but I do have to remind my daughter not to spend too much time talking. For example 3 hours: She LOVES tlaking to our eval and would discuss animals with her for days if I allowed it. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AuntieM Posted May 14, 2010 Share Posted May 14, 2010 We used to go through the portfolio together, more like a trip down memory lane than a review. DS always enjoyed it, mostly because I included a lot of fun snapshots. I felt it gave him a chance to have a look at something in case the evaluator referred to a specific item in the portfolio (ie, to try to eliminate the evaluator getting a blank stare!). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoyfulMama Posted May 14, 2010 Author Share Posted May 14, 2010 We used to go through the portfolio together, more like a trip down memory lane than a review. DS always enjoyed it, mostly because I included a lot of fun snapshots. I felt it gave him a chance to have a look at something in case the evaluator referred to a specific item in the portfolio (ie, to try to eliminate the evaluator getting a blank stare!). This is more what I was thinking. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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