![]() ![]() Make sure you have everything you need for each conference. As much of a pain as rescheduling is, it’s better than having no-shows where you are just sitting there by yourself in a room for fifteen minutes wasting time. ![]() ![]() Do it at LEAST ONE WEEK before conferences so you can reschedule/rearrange parents who can’t make their conference. The more reminders you can send out, the better. Even just one job is hard when you have kids. My school was a school that had a lot of immigrant and refugee families. Send out invitations, reminders, reminders, and more reminders (There is also a great handout from the Harvard Family Research Project that says some similar things.)ġ. In an effort to help other teachers who have this struggle, I want to share some tips and tricks I learned along the way. How can I tell these parents, who work three jobs and speak little English, that their child is very far behind? Am I brave enough to tell “Jason’s” mom what needs to be said? There are a lot of Mama and Papa Bears out there who are fiercely protective of their children and I didn’t want to say the wrong thing. Here I was a 22 year old having to face parents and talk about their babies struggles and strengths. My first year teaching conferences scared me to death. (Let’s all admit that conference’s are also a time for parents to give you lip service about how much they have/do/plan to/promise to work with their child. Yes it meant long days at the school and trying to find a nice way to say “YOU WANT TO SEE PROGRESS?!? TRY WORKING WITH YOUR CHILD AT HOME!!!”, but it also meant that parents and I were coming together to try and help their child become better. Working at the school that I did, it might be the only time I ever saw and actually communicated with the parents of certain students. It’s getting to be that time of year again. ![]()
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