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#Parent teacher conference how to#

Opportunities, activities, ideas, or resources that parents/guardians can encourage in order to challenge the student outside of schoolįor conferences where you don’t feel physically or emotionally safe with the parent/guardian.A couple ways you’ve been challenging this student beyond what’s expected.An new action plan for during class–or what you’d like to proposeįor conferences where you have no concerns about a student:.How parents/guardians can help their child at home.Do they have ideas as to what might be contributing to the problem?.

A record of all the ways you/the school have tried to address the concern already (interventions, scaffolding, contacts home, involvement of support staff, etc.).

Some teachers recommend an example of a high-scoring work and an average example.

Other students’ work (names blocked out) in order to show parents/guardians and explain your concerns.

“While _ is very strong with _, I’ve noticed they’ve been struggling a bit with _.

#Parent teacher conference how to#

A bit of a script for how to bring up the problem:.

Optional: Handout with useful class and team information – again, available in our Engaging Families and Rocking Conferences course.

You can find a template for that in our Engaging Families and Rocking Conferences mini-course.

Optional and helpful: A student reflection of their own progress and goals: academic, social, and behavioral.

Some ideas on how they can improve at home or in school (even if this student is a top-performer).

Examples of student work to show student’s strengths and weaknesses (always start with strengths!).

Latest grades and report card, and if applicable, the latest test scores.

Rather than everything being based on talk and what you claim to see, you can have real numbers and data to point to and discuss–that’s powerful stuff.ĭepending on the student’s situation, I’d recommend preparing a few different things.

It will make you feel more relaxed, as well as providing a third “point,” or place to focus. You can have productive parent-teacher conferences without physical “stuff.”īut if you have a couple days or hours before parent-teacher conferences, it might help for you to spend some time gathering some things to help illustrate what you’ll talk about at the conference. So if your conferences are in a half hour and you’re feeling that panic setting in, breathe.

The important thing is to have a dialogue with the student’s family about the student.

Now, I’m about to give you a list, but let me be honest: after doing these more than a few times, you don’t actually have to have anything printed out in order to have a conference. I remember in the days leading up to my first conferences, veteran teachers were constantly slipping things into our conversations like “Gotta get my conference copies now before it gets crazy on conference day,” or “Ready for conferences a week early for the first time ever!”Įven though I’d usually nod knowingly and say, “Yeah, me too,” I had no idea what they were printing or gathering or prepping…report cards? Test scores? Behavior reports that I didn’t have? I was too scared to ask but also feeling like I was going to walk into these conferences feeling naked. You’re starting to roll in those parent-teacher conferences on your schedule, and you’re starting to wonder….what in the WORLD are we going to talk about, and how can I prepare?