For teachers, roll-call is an annual formal event, but even the word itself may seem only remotely familiar to parents of first-graders. What is roll call at school? How is it conducted in junior, senior and middle grades? What needs to be taken for roll call?
What is roll call at school?
Roll call is an annual school event that takes place a few days before the start of the next school year. Roll call can be carried out a week before the first school day. The exact date and time of this event will be reported to the representative of the parent committee by the teacher (class teacher), and the parent will already inform the rest. A roll call announcement is also posted on the school door in the second half of August.
What is roll call at school? This event, during which the teacher meets his class after the summer holidays, checks the list of students.
Special cases
In some schools, roll-call is not carried out at all. Children simply arrive on the first of September in a festive uniform, with flowers and briefcases. Then everyone gets textbooks. Schedules or other nuances are sometimes communicated by e-mail, in social networks, through other communication channels.
In the first and fifth grades (and sometimes even in graduation classes: fourth, ninth, eleventh), teachers hold the first parent meeting even before the start of the school year. This is especially important for parents of first-graders, whose first child is going to school, and they themselves no longer remember all the nuances of the school time.
How's the school roll call going?
First-grade teachers go out with tablets that will help first-graders parents find the class teacher for their children. In some schools, the director or the head of the school announces into the microphone the last name, first name and patronymic of the teacher who takes first-graders (he goes forward), then alternately the names and surnames of the children who go to this class. After the children, together with their parents come to the teacher, they rise to the class to solve organizational issues.
What is the roll call in middle and high school? Pupils in their sixth-eleventh grade already know their class teachers well, so declaring the name of the teacher and the composition of the class from the porch does not make sense. The exception is fifth grades, since when you switch from a junior to a secondary school, the class teacher changes, as well as the classrooms in which the teacher has changed.
What do parents of first graders need to know?
What is roll call at first grade school? As a rule, some first graders get to know the school even before the solemn line at the beginning of the school year. Some of the children, for example, are involved in the first call. They receive words, go to rehearsals, then attend a dress rehearsal on August 30 or 31. Other first graders attend school for the first time when they come to roll call.
Do I need to take a first grader to roll call? Often in the first grades the roll call is a parent meeting, but you can and even need to take a child with you. A first grader at least gets to know his first teacher, and on September 1 there will be a lot of stress. But everything, of course, depends on what goals the class teacher sets, so you can simply clarify this question in advance.
The roll call is rarely held in solemn form. Children and parents can come in everyday clothes, but you need to bring a pen, notebook or notebook for recording important points, a bag for textbooks.
Roll call in first grade
The recruitment of children to school is an important event. Every year, new children come to the school team, who have been studying for 11 years in the walls of their native educational institution. Beginners do not know anything about school, the guys are just trying to be students. Therefore, roll call can introduce children to school.
Usually, the teacher first tells how many students are in the class, how many boys and girls, lists everyone by name, noting those present, gets to know their wards and their parents. The class teacher will tell you about the school building (what and where it is), how many children study here, what it takes to study.
If the roll call coincides with the parent meeting in the first grades, the class teacher asks the parents to fill out several questionnaires to find out the information that is needed to compile the students ’personal files, gives a list of what they need to buy for the school, and explains how to contact him. In this case, the roll call for the first grades is usually carried out one to two weeks before the start of the school year, so that parents have time to collect their children for school. Sometimes at such a meeting there is a school psychologist or the head of the educational unit.
Classroom Information
Teachers roll over each year, but preparation is still needed for this event. At roll call, class teachers should:
- check class lists (if all are present);
- prepare recommendations for the first call, familiarize students and parents with them;
- announce the schedule of duty in the classroom and (for middle and senior students) at school;
- recall school traditions;
- inform the class schedule;
- give out textbooks;
- answer all questions of interest to students or their parents.
Following the results of the roll call, class teachers should prepare four sets of lists of class students: for themselves, for the school medical worker, for subject teachers, for students and parents. You also need to fill out the magazines, clarify the weekly load, check the readiness of the office for the start of classes.
What should a teacher pay attention to?
As for the roll call, attention should be paid to absent students and the provision of textbooks. Those who were absent need to call, find out the reason. Particularly careful should be planned roll call first graders and parent meeting. The experience of many teachers shows that roll call is best done no later than August 26-27.
Class teachers first graders
The teacher usually has something to talk with first-graders' parents, they ask a lot of questions and are interested in many, so the meeting is often delayed. It is worth paying the attention of parents to the fact that the child needs help to adapt to school life. You can offer parents the exercise "Feel like a first grader." To do this, print out the recipe, some little stars and circles that need to be circled, and so on, and invite parents to circle the figures with a leading hand.
At the first meeting, it is worth mentioning everything that the teacher understands, but it may not be completely clear to the parents. For example, be sure to remind that you cannot be late for school, you should come in uniform, notebooks should be on the covers, and replaceable shoes should be worn every day.
A list of things for parents of first-graders needs to be drawn up in more detail. It is worthwhile to take the time and paperwork - filling out applications for food for schoolchildren, extension, to conduct a survey. The teacher really has a lot of paper work, so it’s worth doing it measuredly, so that you can do everything on time.
You need to be well prepared for the roll call meeting with the parents of first-graders. Then the meeting will be easy, without hesitation, everything will succeed, and you will not forget to remind your mothers and fathers of your students about anything, as well as to the students themselves.