Early Childhood Education

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:
• A letter/note/flyer of invitation for the conference.
• 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

Berger, E. H. (2011). Parents as partners in education: Families and schools working together. 8th ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson.

Read Chapters 6, 7, 8, and 9