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.
• 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.
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