LETTERS OF RECOMMENDATION: STUDENTS, STUDENT TEACHERS, COLLEAGUES

Hi, Friends,

Have you ever experienced this? A student brings you a pile of last year’s materials, cavalierly plops them on your desk saying “I’ve brought you a present . . .” or “I’ve got a favor . . .” or “I’m sorry, I’m bringing you some work . . .”?  Do you have a student teacher that needs a letter of recommendation? Is a colleague of yours leaving? Inundated with too many requests at one time? I have put together a letter of recommendation request process that will help you more easily get through the student recommendation process AND write more effective letters of recommendation.

Students are first asked to think carefully about whom they ask to write their letters of recommendation. If students choose to request a letter from you, they must respond to a number of reflective questions and submit them for your approval. You then have the opportunity to either write the letter or decline. (Students have a new appreciation wheen they realize that you are not obliged to write a letter for them.) Should you choose to write the letter, students then gather their writing (OR other coursework that you deem appropriate) from your class, sift through, and annotate materials before submitting them to you. Because I ALWAYS personalize each letter of recommendation with a student's thought or excerpt from a piece of his or her work, the information students provide in the prior step is invaluable!

I've also included with this 46-page Google Doc download editable sample templates for a student teacher, teaching assistant, beginning teacher, and long-term colleague! Here's everything:

• Recommendation Process (Editable; use as a handout, in an online format, or email reply.) 
• Student Reflection Questions (Editable; use as a handout, in an online format, or email reply.) 
• Why the recommendation process change? (Editable; use in an online format or email reply.) 
• The Gathering Process (Editable; use in an online format  or email reply.) 
• Response to student who needs work on appropriate, formal tone (Editable; email reply.) 
• Response to parent who wants her student's letter of recommendation (Editable; use in hardcopy, in an online format or email reply.) 
• Email response to student who requests recommendation earlier than you'd like (Editable; use in an online format or email reply.) 
• Recommendation Letter Writing by Section Process
• Helpful Adjectives and Nouns
• 15 Sample letters of recommendation (variety of academic levels) (Editable; use in hardcopy, online format, or email reply.) 
• Fall Academic Report to Parent (Editable; use in hardcopy, online format, or email reply.) 
• Recommendation for Student Representative to the School Board (Editable; use in hardcopy, online format, or email reply.) 

All items below are editable; use in hardcopy, online format, or email reply. 

• Recommendation for Summer Leadership Program--Teacher Assistant
• Recommendation Decline/TA Experience (2 versions)
• Recommendation for Teacher Assistant
• Recommendation for Student Teacher (2 versions) 
• Recommendation for One-year Teacher
• Recommendation for Long-term Colleague

Please get in touch with me via email with ANY questions, problems, or concerns! We'll talk soon!

Deä

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