What can I ask Ed to prepare a conseil de classe?

📍 For schools in France. This article covers a system that only schools in France use.

Here are ideas of requests you can make to Ed (“Talk to Ed!”) to prepare a conseil de classe, the end-of-term class council where the teachers of a class review each student’s results and write the comments for the report card (bulletin).

Overall class analysis

• “Can you give me an overall picture of the class’s results for this term (trimestre)?”

• “What are the class’s main strengths and difficulties across the assessments given this term?”

• “Which students stand out positively, especially for their progress during the term?”

• “Which students had difficulties this term?”

• “Can you identify the skills the class has mastered least?”

• “On which skills did students improve the most since last term?”

• “Can you show me how the class’s results changed across this term’s assessments?”

• “Which groups of students could benefit from differentiated work on [concept]?”

• “Which students could benefit from specific support or a PPRE (personalized educational success program)?”

Individual student analysis

• “Give me a summary of [student’s first and last name]’s results, strengths and difficulties.”

• “Is [student’s first and last name] improving or struggling compared with last term?”

• “Which skills has [student’s first and last name] mastered? Which ones need more work?”

• “Can you suggest a comment to write for [student’s first and last name], based on the assessments given this term?”

• “Which reteaching activities would be useful for [student’s first and last name]?”

• “What study and work habits could I suggest to [student’s first and last name]?”

• “Can you show me how [student’s first and last name]’s results changed over the last three assessments?”

Help writing comments for the conseil de classe

• “Based on the draft comments below for the first-term report card, can you suggest rewordings so the comments are clear and useful for the student, the family and the school?”

• “Based on the notes below about [student’s first and last name]’s work, attitude and results, can you suggest a comment that is clear and useful for the student, the family and the school? Make sure it mentions both areas for growth and positives.”