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Professional Learning Community (Family Studies) Reflection

After three meetings with my PLC group, I have learned


about my personality and how to interact with parents,
specifically during parent teacher conferences. The lesson
the PLC leader presented were great and she really focused
on gearing the learning towards us individually and how we
would and should interact in a parent teacher conference. I
felt like I gained lots of information about myself, parenting
styles, and knowledge to carry on a successful and conflict
free conversations with parents.
Our first lesson focused on our personality types and us
as individuals. It was neat to see how our personality types
would be reflected differently in the classroom. I was a ITSJ
personality type, which simply means I am defined as a
logistician. My personality type is know for being logic and
dedicated to my duty. I uphold traditions, rules, and
standards. I would say that is very accurate to my
personality because I have very old school, traditional set-instone systems I follow. I believe my classroom would be
tradition in behavior and classroom management techniques

and I would have set rules for instruction and classroom


behaviors.
Our third lesson revolved around the parents and the
different parenting styles. It was interesting to see how the
parents personality types differed and would be reflected
through the child. The different parenting styles are
authoritative, authoritarian, uninvolved, and permissive. As a
teacher, you will engage in conversations with each one of
these types of parenting styles. It is our job to be knowledge
and respectful. It was neat to see how the parents would
react in a conversation about their child and how as a
teacher we should approach each type of parent based on
their parenting style.
Our final lesson focused on how to engage in successful
parent conferences with different parenting styles and your
personality combined. I learned that sometimes personalities
can clash, so our PLC leader gave us tips and points to refer
to during a parent-teacher conference, so it is successful and
helps the students, which is the overall goal of the meeting. I

felt like the information (packet) our leader provided us was


great and it is something I can reference in the future.
I feel like I learned and gained a lot of knowledge about
carrying a successful parent conference in the near future.
The parent-teacher conferences are all about helping the
child and that is something we need to keep in mind. I will
definitely take the information I have gained through the PLC
lessons and incorporate them in future conferences. I think
the Family Studies leader did a great job and enhanced my
knowledge of conferences and myself.

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