10 Tips for Preparing for a Parent Teacher Conference
1. Ask how you can help your child improve their skills. You want to let the teacher know that you willing to help your child be as successful as possible. You can ask the teacher about any suggestions that he or she may have. It will let them know that you care about your child.
2. Ask about any tutor programs that is available. Some schools offer extra help in the morning before school or even after school during the week. You can also ask about any other programs available to the student to help them further. Some tutor programs cost extra money and some are completely free depending upon what school the student attends.
3. Ask about any learning disabilities that the teacher might suspect of your child. A learning disability might be the cause of not being able to learn a subject very well. Some children are slower than others in the beginning of learning new information. They often have classes specifically there to help students with learning disabilities to learn at a slower pace.
4. Make sure to pay attention to any recommendations that the teacher may suggest. You want to take into consideration what he or she is saying. If your child has any poor grades then you can ask the teacher if there any extra credit assignments that your child can do in order to raise the grade. You can even get the student a computer program to use at home in order to have extra help learning too.
5. If you think your child might have a learning disability then tell the teacher about it. The teacher can make a note of it and make sure the student does get some tests done to see if there is learning disability. One thing to remember about a learning disability is some of them don’t last forever.
6. If your child doesn’t read numbers right or has a difficult time in school due to not being able to see very well then be concerned. Your child might need to wear glasses. Make a appointment with the eye doctor to determine if he or she does need glasses.
7. Ask the teacher about the grades that your child gets on any tests and homework assignments. You need to know how well he or she is doing in school all year. You can tell if he or she understands a subject enough depending upon what type of scores the child gets on tests and homework.
8. You can ask about any upcoming field trips in advance. You want to know how much the field trips are going to cost. You want to ask about the field trip in detail. You need to know when they are going to go on the field trip and when they are going to arrive back to school during the day.
9. Ask about the videos that your child watches during class. This is important to ask since some teachers let students watch some movies without getting a parents approval first. You want to know which videos your child is watching at school.
10. Ask the teacher about how many years he or she has been teaching. This is important to ask since it probably make you feel more confident to know that your child probably has a good teacher. It is important for your child to have a teacher that knows how to deal with kids and realizes that kids learn differently along with the fact that some are slower than others.
