At a Rhode Island elementary school, portfolio sharing night provides a way for students to share their classwork with parents in a relaxed, informative setting. Parents see works in progress and completed samples and hear the children explain their work. This format has helped improve public relations and communication with parents and encouraged…

Parent conferencing is a way to dramatically improve home/school relationships. Parent conferences, at their very best, provide the teacher with useful information about individual students. More importantly, however, they create a parent/teacher team atmosphere, with each member contributing his or her knowledge and experience for the benefit of…

The parent-teacher conference is widely endorsed as an effective method of reporting pupil progress. They are particularly valuable because the conferences provide an opportunity for two-way communication about students. The understanding gained in a conference can help the school and home work together to bring out the maximum in a student.…

Visits, calls, letters, and "Saturday school" help parent and teacher to talk, work, and learn together. (Editor)

Summarizes ERIC documents offering suggestions for ways to conduct effective parent-teacher conferences. (FL)

To insure that parents were aware of faculty other than those teaching their children, teachers at St. Monica School prepared small group presentations for the Home and School Meeting on professional topics such as the teaching of reading and the parent's role in education. (SJL)

Describes a parent program at Dryden Middle School in New York in which parents attend school for the entire day with their children. Includes information on parent orientation, structure of the visit, and students' reactions to parental visitation. Notes the importance of publicity, preparation, organization, and follow-up activities for program…

At a Calgary, Alberta, elementary school, students were included in the March parent teacher report conferences. The practice generated overall positive feelings concerning benefits for students' learning experiences. Parents gained valuable insights into the teacher-child relationship. Recommendations for adopting this practice in other schools…

Individualized education programs for each child at two suburban Minnesota elementary schools help teachers ensure that every child achieves and is revitalizing the parent-teacher relationship. The plan's structure, based on early conferences, is described in detail. A sidebar shows the importance of setting learning goals. (MLH)

Discusses the practice at Price Laboratory School at the University of Northern Iowa in Cedar Falls of conducting parent-teacher conferences at the beginning of the school year, before discipline or other problems arise that might lead to parent-teacher discord. Includes lists of questions asked of parents at these meetings. (MDM)

A Rhode Island elementary school decided to include students in their parent-teacher conferences. The idea was to increase student responsibility for learning and improve student achievement. Revamped portfolios that focused on the quality of student work provided the key to success. (MLH)

Parents should keep in mind a number of things when preparing for teacher-student conferences. First, parent-teacher conferences are important to the child's success at school. Parent-teacher conferences give parents the opportunity to deal with any misunderstandings and discuss things that relate to their child's progress in school. It is an…

One means of reporting learner achievement in reading is to utilize parent-teacher conferences. Adequate skills in word recognition is one facet of reading achievement that might be reported. Important word recognition techniques include: using phonics to unlock new words, syllabication, and utilizing context clues, configuration clues, picture…

A speech pathologist designed and implemented a practicum study for the purpose of strengthening the conference skills of kindergarten through fifth-grade teachers at three elementary schools. The primary goal of the practicum was to provide the teachers with a method and the skills needed to promote effective cooperation between parent and…

The English once again cast their influence upon education in America. This report on open education is the reflection of some first hand experiences of enthusiastic teachers. (Editor)