4. Be on time. Double-check the time slot for your conference. Then plan to be ready about five minutes before your assigned time. This way, you won’t miss any of your time with the teacher. 5. Stay calm. It’s important to keep your emotions in check during the conference, even if your child is struggling with something.

Teach Starter Teacher Tip: Save time with editable parent reminder notes for parent-teacher conferences, field trips, picture day and more. 2. Get Organized. The more organized you are the better! Gather together any data you want to share with parents into manilla folders or a similar filing system and sort your folders according to the order ...

Here are fifteen tips to set you up for success before diving into parent-teacher meetings. 1. Offer a flexible conference schedule. Some parents have more than one student in the school, multiple jobs, or may have difficulty traveling, so they need teachers to be flexible when scheduling conferences. In these cases, teachers may need to meet ...

A parent-teacher conference is a great opportunity to: share academic progress and growth based on classroom observations, testing data, assessments, portfolios, and assignments. learn from parents or guardians so you can be better informed about students' strengths, needs, behaviors, and learning styles. discuss enrichment or intervention ...

I lead the Family Partnerships department in my school district. At a Families and Educators Together team gathering at Lincoln Elementary School, we asked families about their experiences with parent-teacher conferences. They shared that they had felt rushed and dominated by teacher talk. The parents also wished, as one father put it, that teachers would take the time to “ask about what our ...

The meetings aren’t that much easier for parents, who rush to squeeze them in on a workday or feel the teacher isn’t understanding their child. But parent-teacher meetings can be productive. We’ve gathered five common concerns—from both teachers’ and parents’ perspectives—and identified strategies to improve attendance ...

Parent-teacher conferences can be pretty stressful for everyone involved: families, teachers, school staff, even students. Whether teachers are trying to meet with 100 parents in one a day, dealing with angry parents who demand answers, or holding a full day’s worth of meetings with no breaks for meals, these events can be absolutely exhausting.