From the experience of a senior teacher. Parents' meeting at the preschool educational institution
How to properly organize a parent meeting at a preschool educational institution?
The preschool teacher communicates daily with children and parents, sees their problems, difficulties, as well as the positive experiences of each family. One of the tasks of communication between a teacher and parents is to reveal to parents important aspects of the child’s mental development and help them build the right pedagogical strategy. In resolving these issues, parent meetings are indispensable, as they are an effective form of communication between educators and parents. However, parents are busy people; sometimes they don’t have time to talk to the teacher, come to a meeting, or they think that they already know everything about their child. In this case, the teacher must know how to interest parents in the necessary pedagogical information, and then how to effectively organize a parent meeting.
Parent meeting It is at meetings that the teacher has the opportunity to familiarize parents with the tasks, content, and methods of raising preschool children in a kindergarten and family setting. During the meeting, the main burden falls on the report. This material can be used for conducting oral and written consultations with parents, as well as other forms of work. The teacher is required to have a creative approach to the material: searching for new examples; using their own methods of activating parents, aimed at making listeners interested in the problem being studied, at creating associations with their own experience of raising children, and at rethinking their parental position. In this case, it is necessary to take into account the parents’ need for knowledge. • psychological training; • Master Class; • joint activities between children and parents; • Open Day; • screening of theatrical productions. Preparing a parent meeting 1. A week before the meeting, you can conduct a survey of parents on the topic of the meeting. Questionnaires are filled out at home before the meeting and their results are used during the meeting. 2. To activate parents and ensure their attendance at the meeting, it is advisable to make invitations to each family in the form of applications, designs, taking into account the theme of the meeting. It is important that children take part in making secret invitations for parents. Invitations are distributed a week before the meeting. 3. In accordance with the theme of the meeting, create original leaflets with tips. The content of the memos should be brief, the text should be printed in large font. 4. Our kindergarten uses such forms of attracting parents to parent-teacher meetings as: preparing competitions, exhibitions, and crafts on the theme of the meeting. At the same time, both children and their parents participate in competitions. All prepared works are exhibited before the meeting, and the teacher introduces parents to samples of work. At the meeting itself, parents choose the best work, and the winner is awarded a prize. 5. An audio recording of children’s answers to questions on the topic of the meeting can be used as one of the forms of activating parental attention. 6. Occasionally invite a fairy-tale character to a meeting. 7. We attract the attention of parents to the meeting by creating homemade posters on the topic of the meeting. 8. It is advisable to hold parent committee meetings a month before the meeting. Immediately before the meeting, it is necessary to:
• prepare furniture on which it would be comfortable for parents to sit.
You can arrange tables and chairs in a circle, put cards on them with the names and patronymics of parents, • prepare pens and sheets of paper so that they can write down the information they are interested in, as well as pencils, children’s work on modeling, drawing, and appliqué. • consider who will provide child care during the meeting and how. Conducting a parent meeting A parent meeting traditionally consists of 3 parts: introductory, main and “miscellaneous”.
The meeting time is 1 hour. (40 minutes with parents and 20 minutes with children). 1.
The introductory part
is designed to organize parents, create an atmosphere of goodwill and trust, concentrate their attention, and motivate them to solve problems together.
This can be done by communicating the topic, the form of the meeting, or through short games and activities. You can create a certain musical background: the sounds of a guitar, piano, tape recording, which will accompany the words of the presenter. 2. The main part
of the meeting can be divided into two or three stages.
As a rule, this part begins with a speech by the group teacher, senior teacher or other preschool specialists, covering the theoretical aspects of the problem under consideration. The message should be short, since by the end of the working day the stability of attention decreases. The main thing is that parents are not just passive listeners. It is necessary to ask questions to the listeners, give examples from the practice of raising children in families and kindergartens, analyze pedagogical situations, offer parents to watch video clips of classes with children, games, walks, etc. You should not reproach or lecture your parents. More often you need to use moments from the lives of children in the group as examples. When talking about unwanted actions of children, there is no need to mention their last names. During their communication, teachers should avoid making claims against parents and children, discussing the personality of a particular child; One should not state the failures of children, the main thing is to jointly develop ways to solve the problems under discussion. It is better to have a conversation in soft lighting. Transitions from one situation to another can be separated by a short musical pause. If possible, it is better to stage the situations being analyzed. To illustrate your ideas and considerations, you can use tape and video recordings, photographs and interviews of children in the group, diagrams and graphs, visually presented theses and speeches. All this will contribute to a better understanding of the theme of the meeting. When conducting this part of the meeting, you can also use the following methods: lecture, discussion, conference, which can also be separate forms of work with the families of pupils. 3. In the third part of the parent meeting - “miscellaneous”
- issues of maintaining a child in kindergarten, leisure activities, and organizing joint events between the family and the preschool educational institution are discussed. It is recommended to think through in advance several options for solving the problem that will be offered to parents for discussion, agree with those of them who can help, take responsibility, etc. Some issues need to be resolved in advance with the parent committee. At the end of the meeting, it is necessary to summarize the meeting, listing the decisions made on each of the issues discussed, recorded in the minutes. Meetings can be held in the form of question-and-answer evenings, oral journals, talk shows, etc. Despite the differences in these forms, they are united by one meaning - to give parents knowledge about raising their own child, to interest them in the problems of education, and to stimulate them to reconsider their educational position.
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Information parent meetings in kindergarten
Such meetings in the garden are held when it is necessary to convey important and new information to parents regarding various aspects of the life of a particular age group. Such events are usually carried out by educators. If there is a need, the head, senior teacher or nurse is invited to such parent meetings.
For parents of nurseries and younger groups, any information regarding all educational and routine aspects in the group, as well as the time spent in kindergarten during the early stages of the child’s adaptation to a new environment will be of interest.
A parent meeting for parents of future first-graders is usually held in the middle of the year to resolve all organizational issues regarding the graduation party, as well as costumes for the celebration, diplomas, photographs and memorable gifts. You can invite a music director who will tell you in detail about the final graduation matinee and everything that is required for it.
Thematic parent meetings in kindergarten
At such parent-teacher meetings, a specific topic is selected, and the teacher provides information specifically on it. Usually these are various pedagogical questions about conducting classes and development methods. Here you can also read interesting reports on raising children, proper nutrition, spending leisure time outside the preschool walls, and additional education for children.
Emergency parent meetings in kindergarten
Such parent-teacher meetings are usually not scheduled and are held in case of urgent issues. For example, when you need parents’ help in cleaning the kindergarten territory or their participation in children’s parties.
Parent meetings dedicated to holidays
Often, preschool institutions hold parent meetings dedicated to some holiday. First, you can tell interesting facts about the origin of the holiday, then congratulate all the assembled parents on it. And you can end such a meeting with a small performance by children who can perform a song, dance, or read poetry on the topic for moms and dads.
Parent meetings in kindergarten should be held in a friendly and welcoming environment. All information must be provided in full, competently and with clear diction, questions must be answered correctly and to the point. General parent meetings are usually held twice a year, and group meetings are held once a quarter, or as needed.
