Open School Week - General Information
Stuyvesant has instituted an Open School Week policy supporting classroom visitation by parents during the three days before parent-teacher conferences. Parents may visit the school at any time from 8AM to 3PM and visit one or more classes. Parent volunteers will be present at tables on the second floor, as you enter the school from the bridge, to give directions and to assist you. In order for this new policy to be comfortable for all concerned, we ask that you respect the following guidelines (which will also be handed out at the school by parent volunteers):
- Visitation to classes is to be on 3 separate days of Open School Week.
- Parents should obtain their child's class schedule from their child before coming to school.
- Parents must enter via the bridge where they can pick up the following:
- an explanatory handout showing which subjects are generally on which floors and the general bell schedule.
- the ground rules.
- departmental chair office numbers and locations.
- in case parents fail to get their child's schedule from their child in advance, a copy of their child's schedule may be requested at the information table.
- To avoid disruption of instruction, parents are expected to enter a classroom at the beginning of a class, stay for the entire class, and exit at the end of the class.
- Parents may visit other classes than those their child currently is in.
- A maximum of five parents may sit in any class. If the class a parent wishes to observe happens to already have 5 parents in it or if there are 5 parents ahead in the line, a parent should choose to attend another class during that period and observe the next period of the class he/she missed. Parents may also attend the class of another teacher teaching the same subject or another class - one their child may be considering for the future, or one in which they happen to be interested.
- At the end of the class, parents should restrict conversation with the teacher to a polite "thank you" or other such acknowledgement. Any conversation about a personal issue must be deferred until the conferences on Thursday and Friday.
- To assist navigation, there will be relevant Departmental Programming Schedules enlarged and posted near the elevators on each floor, as well as at the entrance information table, showing: Teacher's name, Room Number, Course Name and Course Code.
- Outside of each classroom there will be a sheet showing the class periods and the teacher and course in that room during each period.
- There is to be no eating or drinking in the classroom.
- If lost, ask a student for directions.
- At the time of the three-minute parent/teacher conferences on Thursday and Friday, parents feeling the need for more time to converse may give the teacher their phone number and a convenient hour for the teacher to call.
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