This joint publication from the National PTA and NEA suggests helpful hints for productive parent-teacher conferences. Veteran teachers provide some answers. Anne Henderson, who studies the link between parental involvement and student achievement, answers questions on getting parents involved. This booklet helps parents become partners in their children's education, from preschool to high school. NEA members offer suggestions on what parents can do to help their children get the most out of school.
Kids learn best when parents and teachers work together.
Here are some basic guidelines for conducting parent-teacher conferences and a checklist for how to prepare. Veteran teachers tell how they get parents to buy in on alternative assessment. Read about an innovative conferencing model involving parents, teachers, and students that helped boost the reading skills of students in Tacoma, Washington. NEA Today interviews a special education veteran and author about the best way to talk to parents about a student's attention problems. This document contains tips that were culled from the Works4Me archive.