Parent-Teacher conferences are upon us this week! Here are a few resources that might be useful as you think ahead to the upcoming conversations.
Cliff Notes Version: Be prepared! Be positive! Be solution oriented!
Pre-Conference Tools and Tips
- Parent-Teacher Conference Form: This Google Doc is one example of a form to have students complete BEFORE conferences. Use this form (or one like this) to gather personalized talking points for each student. It can also help make the conversation more student led. Just make sure to collect these from the students before conferences and to bring them to conferences.
- Tips for New Teachers: While this document specifies new teachers in the title, like all good resources, the information can be applied no matter where you are in your teaching career. The beginning of the article does talk about 30-minute conferences; just ignore that part! The rest can be applied to any parent-teacher conference format.
- Harvard's Parent-Teacher Conference Tip Sheets: The Harvard Family Research Project published this document in 2010; it includes tips for principals, teachers, and parents. Pages 5 and 6 are specific to teachers, but the whole document is a quick read.
- 5 Quick "Tips for Parent-Teacher Conferencing": As both an educator and a mom, Edutopia blogger Elena Aguilar shares her top-five tips for parent-teacher conferences.
Hope your conversations are productive and fruitful!
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