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Parent Teacher Conferences

The document provides guidance for parent-teacher conferences by outlining steps to take before, during, and after a conference. It recommends preparing student materials and an organized meeting space before conferences. It also suggests actively listening to parents and focusing on student progress positively during meetings, while avoiding comparing students or blaming parents. Teachers should document conferences and follow up as needed after meetings.

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Parent Teacher Conferences

The document provides guidance for parent-teacher conferences by outlining steps to take before, during, and after a conference. It recommends preparing student materials and an organized meeting space before conferences. It also suggests actively listening to parents and focusing on student progress positively during meetings, while avoiding comparing students or blaming parents. Teachers should document conferences and follow up as needed after meetings.

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THE PARENT-TEACHER CONFERENCE

BEFORE – DURING – AFTER

BEFORE
• Get to the parent before the student does
• Get student documentation (grades, progress reports, attendance,
discipline forms, classroom rules and procedures)
• Have student work samples
• Determine who needs to be at the conference (counselor, administrator,
student)
• Have sample textbook/resources available
• Have an orderly place to meet (classroom, conference room, library, etc.)
• If the parent has requested the meeting, do not waste time trying to figure
out the parent’s agenda
• Meet parent at the office
• Sit next to parent

DURING (DO’S)
• Be a good host - offer coffee, water, etc.
• Provide parents with specific academic information (show, don’t tell)
• Invite and obtain additional information from parents
• Listen carefully to parents. If you’re nervous, you will tend to take over the
conversation. Try for a 50-50 balance.
• Let parents know you are available for follow-up.
• Assure the parents that everyone involved wants what is best for the
student.
• Positive information, negative information, positive information
• Leave the conference if a parent becomes verbally abusive

DURING (DON’TS)
• Compare one child with another
• Psychoanalyze children or parents
• Argue with a parent
• Focus on family problems
• Blame the parent for the child’s problems
• Talk about your colleagues

AFTER
• Document, document, document
• Follow-up
• Move on

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