Parent Teacher Conference

I feel that the conference went very well. The first conference was fairly straightforward, and went much as I had expected it to. I did discover during this conference however that it can be difficult to explain to parents how a child may be misbehaving during school. You have to always remain respectful and offer strategies on how the behavior may be corrected. The difficult conference was the true test. With difficult parents, an already stressful conference is made incredibly difficult. Even the simplest of explanations can be next to impossible if the parents do not want to hear it. All in all I have learned that parents really control the entire situation when it come to the conference. No matter how much you may plan, the outcome of the conference is almost entirely up to them. You do however have the ability to steer the meeting in a direction that will benefit the student. Really the entire conference is set up to help the student and that is what matters most.