The conference

In today's class we have seen how a conference with parents should be done,but first of all we should ask ourselves... What is a parent-teacher conference? A parent teacher conference is a meeting between a student's parents and teacher or teachers, to discuss the child's progress academically, socially and with regard to expected classroom behavior. Other topics such as homework and emotional or friend challenges may also come up. To learn this we have seen a video of an American conference which was perfectly run. After that we have said outloud the characteristics that we have liked the most about this conference. After that we have seen a Spanish conference which was awful and was full of mistakes. We have compared both and what the teacher should have done. Some of the important concepts are:

1) Go to the door and welcome the parents

2) First of all,  talk about the good achievements of the kid and then about the negative aspects

3)Have the resources that the kid has used over the course available.

4)Be confident.

5)Be punctual to the meeting.

6)Put some objectives in common with the parents  and state a date to check if everything is going as planned

After all of this,  some classmates have made representations of conferences in different situations (divorced parents, single mother...) and how to run them

.Today's class was incredibly useful because it is really important how to run a conference in a good way and not making the parents angry. It is also important because if the kid sees that there is a good communication between the teacher and the parents, he will feel more motivated to keep studying and paying attention to the classes, and to modify his behaviour if necessary. There were some things that I had guessed that where this way but I did not know other pieces of advice, so this has been fun and important for our careers.