This year, I student-taught at West Anchorage High School, my alma mater, under the direction of two mentor teachers. Each of these teachers gave me one of their classes to teach in its entirety, from the start of the year to the finish. My classes were English 9 and English 10, both general education classes. For one semester, I taught two sections of Honors English 10. In the first month of school, West High School has an Open House, in which parents are invited to visit the school and circulate though their students’ class schedules, with the bell ringing every ten minutes to direct parents to the next class period. For this meeting, I had copies of my syllabus for each class, as well as a small flyer I prepared explaining a little bit about myself, class goals for the year, and books we might be reading. You can view the flyer below:

Open House Flyer

In my introductions, I explained my student-teacher status and what it means, explained my standards-based grading system, discussed the materials I handed out, and invited parents to contact me any time via email.