Standard+C2+Fosters+effective+communication

**Date:**
2010-2011 School Year

Evidence/Activity/Anecdote: My evidence for this standard is my teacher blog. During Open House at the beginning of the year, I spoke to parents about blogging and let them kow that this would be the main way of communicating what is happening in the classroom. I made sure parents have the blog address. Also, each student has the blog address in his/her agenda. I update the blog once a week to let parents know what is happening in the classroom. I frequently post pictures and slideshows so parents can see what the students are doing. There are two new things that I started doing this year, which are working out great. Whenever I make my weekly blog post, I send an email to parents to let them know that the blog has been updated. I think this reminds parents to look on the blog for information. I have also used the “Dates to Remember” widget, so on the top right side of my blog there is a list of upcoming dates so parents can see it easily. I’ve had parent feedback that this is working well. Overall I am happy with blogging. I think it’s fairly easy and a much more efficient way to inform parents of what is going on.

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