Get to Know the Teacher Printable Info Sheet
The start of a school year is a whole lot of firsts! No matter how long your child has been in school, it is a new class, new friends, new rules, and new teachers! I’m sure your child is worried about what they are going to wear on the first day of school, what type of snacks they’ll bring in their lunchbox, and which friends they’ll have in their class, but most kids are REALLY concerned with who they’ll get for their teacher that year!! It is important to start off the year right!
Let Me Get to Know You – Teacher Info Printable!
I’ve created a “Let Me Get To Know You” teacher information sheet that we ask teachers to fill out at the beginning of the year. Every teacher, every year has filled it out, and everyone has appreciated that we want to know a little more about them.
(Plus it really helps when we want to do small things to show our appreciation to our amazing teachers like bring them their favorite drink one morning, or a gift card at Christmas that I know they’ll use).
Being a teacher for 14 years, and being a parent of school-age children for 9 years, I’ve learned that it is REALLY helpful to get to know your teacher. It is important to know what scholastic priorities your teacher has so your child can make sure to keep those in mind as they fulfill assignments. You’ll also what pet-peeves your teacher has so that your child can steer clear of those.
One of the easiest methods I’ve seen over the years to have a successful year with a new teacher is to get to know the teacher on a more personal level and actually have a friendship with that teacher. A personal relationship with the teacher makes it so they keep an extra watchful eye on your child, and also keeps you in the loop more. You can print off our Let Me Get To Know You! sheet and get to know your new teacher’s favorites for the year!
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Such an brilliant idea! These printables are also fun and clever.
This is a neat idea! I’ve never thought about doing this before. Sounds like it would be a fun thing for students and teachers to find some common ground right from the start.
What a fun way for kids to get to know the person they are expected to connect with over the next nine months. It would also be a great way to get some gift ideas too!
I never would have thought to do something like this! It can be really important to get to know your teacher.
What a great idea! I would have liked to get to know the teacher better each year.
I love this idea. Every parent needs this to make the year go a bit smoother.
I think this is a really smart idea. Thanks for sharing with our Merry Monday party!
This is something that i would have never thought of , but what a wonderful idea.
gonna do this, thanks for the idea
love this!
I love this idea! So clever!
What a really great idea this is!
Knowing the teacher is crucial. After all, they spend sometimes more hours per day with your child than some parents. Great idea, and most teachers want to know the kids and parents it makes their jobs easier.
What a great idea!
Hi — I found your idea informative, but as the Mom of not only a teacher, but a grandchild that is in 2nd grade (and I’ve gotten to know all his teachers), this is a bit on the invasive side. What you really need to know is not a little bit of the private side of the teacher (whatever she/he wants to offer), but ideally more of what the teacher will teach and how it will be taught through out the school year.
Realizing that you’ve been a teacher, I’m a little taken aback that you’d think it was all right to offer up so much personal information to parents. “Places to Eat”, really? Do not teachers have the right to privacy, if that is what they choose? What if they don’t want to fill in this form, or at least parts of it – what then? Isn’t getting to know the teacher of your child or children done when you first go to school with your child and then more during the school year?
My grandson goes to a highly rated public school and it’s my understanding that a lot of information is gleaned from being around the teacher by the child, and/or the parent when they volunteer to work at the school, specifically in the child’s classroom. If a parent is unable to do that, getting to know a teacher by meeting with them during the school year at parent-teacher meetings would seem to be the way to handle “getting to know” them. My daughter and husband believe as noted by one other parent “that knowing a teacher is crucial” but we all agree, that there are ways to do it and there are ways that seem somewhat of an overkill. Go to the school, meet the teacher and talk. Don’t do it by having a piece of filled out paper with questions that go far beyond what you should know about the teacher. Your last paragraph is wonderful, until you ask for it all to be written down – how about just meeting the teacher and getting to know that person and leaving it at that! Personal observation and input is much more meaningful in this situation than having a “report” that you have on hand.
Also, I will point out that “you will also know what pet-peeves your teacher has so your child will steer clear of those” opens up a whole lot of other issues. In today’s world it may mean a lawsuit, so I’d be very careful if I were a teacher about writing down those types of issues and really, your child needs to learn to “steer clear” of certain issues just makes the whole relationship sound way to over-wrought.
I completely appreciate your take on it, however my kids always fill out their own getting to know your survey on the first day of school and teachers ask very similar questions of my kids. It is just a fun way for the kids to get to know their teachers quickly. My children always feel nervous around their teacher until they start to get to know them, and something this makes it happen at meet the teacher night, not a few weeks into the school year. Prompts like favorite place to eat allows my child to pick out a gift they’ll really enjoy when we want to send in appreciate gifts or gift cards. Most teacher helpers send home a similar list when gift giving time comes around anyways of shops and restaurants the teacher would appreciate gift cards to. It’s really not that uncommon or invasive. Kids don’t want to know what the curriculum is, they want to know something unique and interesting about their teacher. If it’s not for you, I get it. All the best! ~Janel