"Evaluation: The Key to Improvement" Alan, Senior High School Teacher: Salinas, CA

"Distribute an evaluation for parent-teacher conferences. Ask how effective the conference was and what additional kinds of information families want about what goes on in school, ie., classroom activities, asignments, or any other concerns. Ask for recommendations for future conferences and/or suggestions that you can use to make conferences better. This can be in the from of a scale from 1-5 (Likert scale), or open-ended, or both."