How Do You Prepare For Parent Conferences As A Teacher?
There’s a lot of information available for parents about how to prepare for parent-teacher conferences, but it’s not just parents who need to be ready. With a limited amount of time for each conference and a lot of information to convey in that limited time, it’s really important for a teacher to prepare carefully for parent conferences. Send conference notices home with plenty of advance notice. Preferably, you should provide parents with a few options of dates and times so that they can choose a meeting time that’s convenient for both their schedule and yours. Should you have a student who also spends a significant portion of the school day in another setting, coordinate with that teacher to make sure she, too, is available for a parent conference. Attach a proposed agenda or parent conference prep sheet to the notice. A conference prep sheet gives parents a chance to send back to you ahead of time any information or questions they’d like to have addressed at your meeting. Having tha
