Instructions:
For this assignment, you have read Chapters 6-9 in your textbook and reflected on methods for effective communication with parents, strategies for working with parents, effective parent-school programs, and home-based education, homeschooling, and homework. Now reflect on what you have learned about parents and communication. Using the content of your reading, create a parent conference plan.
You are the elementary supervisor for your district. Parent conferences are in two weeks and new teachers have come to you for help. Design a conference guide that they can follow during parent conferences.
• Be sure to address common scenarios and difficulties that can be part of such conferences.
• Include plans for conferencing with the parent of a mainstreamed special needs child as well as the parents of an English language learner.
• Develop activities that parents can use with their children at home.
• Include an Appendix to your plan that contains:
o A letter/note/flyer of invitation for the conference.
o A home activity calendar for one month focusing on a particular grade level. Activities should reflect different developmental areas.
• Include a reference page (5 resources minimum).
Length: 5-7 pages
Your paper should demonstrate thoughtful consideration of the ideas and concepts presented in the course by providing new thoughts and insights relating directly to this topic. Your response should reflect scholarly writing and current APA standards.
Reading material for this week:
Berger, E. H. (2011). Parents as partners in education: Families and schools working together. 8th ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson. This is the book for chapters 1-12 used for Weeks 1-8.