Parent-teacher conferences are meetings between a student's parents and teacher that occur twice a year to discuss the child's progress and challenges in school. These 15-30 minute meetings benefit students by supporting academic success, and benefit parents by informing them of their child's progress and building strong parent-teacher relationships. To increase parent involvement, teachers can schedule conferences with dates and times, send reminder letters, prepare student portfolios with assignments and tests, discuss behavior, and send home daily reports and emails.

1. Parent-Teacher Conference
SOE 115 Psychology of Teaching and Learning
Kendall College
By Sheila McCaskill

2. What is a Parent-Teacher Conference?
Parent-teacher conference is a meeting
between a student’s parent(s) and teacher to
discuss the child progress and/or challenges
that have been present during school. These
meeting are usually held twice a school year
and last for about 15-30 minutes long
(Kidshealth, 2018). The parent or teacher can
request as many conferences as needed to
help enhance the child learning experience.

3. Benefits for Students
-For the student to be successful in
academics

4. Benefits for
Parents
-They will be informed of their
child/children progress
-Build strong parent teacher
relationship
-Keep communication open

5. Getting Parents Involved
-PTA meetings
This Photo by Unknown Author is icensed under CC BY-NC-ND

6. Barriers
This Photo by Unknown Author is licensed under CC BY
-Parents might not have transportation
-They might not want to come
-Working late hours
-Have multiple jobs
-Have a hard time communicating with the teacher

7. Strategies
-Schedule with dates and times
-Send out reminder letters
-Assess the student
-Prepare the child portfolio which will include
assignments,projects, test
-Discussing the child behavior

9. Strategies continue…
-Send home daily reports
-Send e-mails
-Contact parents
-Schedule meetings as needed

10. References
Kids Health.org.(2018). Teacher-Parent Conference. Retrieve from
http://www.nea.org/tools/tips/Getting-Parents-to-
Conferences.html
Woletz, J. (2017). Getting Parents to Conference. Retrieved from
http://www.nea.org/tools/tips/Getting-Parents-to-
Conferences.html