PARENT-TEACHER CONFERENCES

PARENT-TEACHER CONFERENCES

ag5420BAdopted December 13, 2022

5420B - PARENT-TEACHER CONFERENCES

The parent-teacher conference can play a significant role in the education of our students in three (3) important ways:

  1. providing the teacher with vital information from parents that will strengthen the plans and strategies the teacher uses with a student
  2. helping parents understand more clearly what the school and the teacher are trying to accomplish with a student, what is required for students to accomplish such results, and what the parent can do to facilitate the process
  3. building a strong home-school partnership that has implications for support of school programs beyond particular classroom or grade

In a parent-teacher conference following the school's receipt of the statewide assessment results, a teacher of a student who has taken a statewide assessment shall discuss with the parent the child's individual results on the statewide assessment.

Each principal, in collaboration with the school staff, should incorporate a parent-teacher conference plan as part of the educational plan that each building is to design and implement each year. Among the strategies contained in such a conference plan should be:

  1. creating an environment in which the interaction with parents is based on a partnership mindset rather than one which communicates "we know and tell, you don't know, so listen";
  2. beginning an open-house or initial conference with a clear, concise description for each academic area of:
     
    1. what the desired learning outcomes are for the year;
    2. why it is important that the student both acquires and then applies those learnings;
    3. what learning processes and strategies the student will need to be able to use to achieve such outcomes;
    4. what techniques, strategies, and other actions the teacher will be using to help the student achieve the outcomes;
  3. providing opportunities for parents to ask questions regarding both the ends and the means and to suggest additions and modifications to both;
  4. ensuring that at any special conferences with parents, the parents leave with:
     
    1. one (1) or more action plans for helping their child which the teacher and parent have developed and agreed upon;
    2. a clear understanding of what progress reports and report cards will contain; how they should be interpreted and how they should be used by parents in supporting their child's learning efforts.

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