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Buttons & Bows Early Childcare Education Center

Open Class Room/Center

1544 Woods Circle Norman Oklahoma 73069

405/329/4588

April 10, 2012 6pm – 7pm

Our teachers and staff would like to invite you to tour the center.

Your child’s teacher will show you and explain to you your child’s classroom layout, curriculum and other supplies.

Preparing For a Family Teacher Conference

Blog # 12 pg 138

The child has made progress in the following areas.  I would have four to five examples of the child’s work examples. I would include examples that show both areas where the child is strong and areas where the child is challenged more with the work. I would also have the age milestone checklist available to show the progression comparisons.

The activity that the child enjoys the most is reading time. Your son says he looks and feels like his father and grandpa when he sits and reads. I would then give the parent a picture of their child reading.

The child is most excited and attentive when we are working on reading activities. He has said on more than one occasion that he cannot wait until he can read what his father reads. Your son is attentive when another child’s grandpa comes and reads a story to the class. I have heard and seen your son say quite and place his finger to his lips to indicate is quite.  Your son has said grandpas can’t talk at the same time as their little buckaroo is talking.

The best form of redirection for your son is verbal. Your son desires to please elders and shows respect towards his teachers and other staff members. Your son always says please and thank you to the teachers and staff.

One objective the family could work on at home with this child is less frustration towards the other children. Your son becomes frustrated when the other children do not comprehend a new task as quickly as your son does. We obtained some new blocks that require a slipping interlock type of stacking. When your son is playing with these blocks with some of the other children he will start saying repeatedly to the other child, I can help you, and I can help you. 

How to reach parents who are visual learners

Progress reports are a way to communicate with parents who are visual learners. There are different types of progress reports that centers can implement. Progress reports of a child should be made available to the parents a couple of months after the child has been observed by their primary early child care educator. The next time a progress report should be developed about a child is towards the end of the child’s time in that classroom. Both of these progress report s should be followed by parent teacher conferences without interruption.  Memos should be handed out to parents about the parent teacher conferences. A bright colored calendar could be placed in the room for parent teacher conference sign up. These visual cues assist parents in scheduling and remembering their parent teacher conference due date. If a child has not been assessed enough to accurately evaluate a particular skill or activity then you should not evaluate the child and explain why the particular skill or activity was not evaluated. Parents who are visual learners will appreciate a written evaluation that they can use to assess their child’s development by a early childcare educator in comparison with their own evaluations of their child. During the conferences examples of the child’s development by work examples and valid early child education resources gives the parent a visual image to understand their child’s development.  This is reassuring to a parent but more importantly may visually show a parent where development may be behind and additional intervention may need to be implemented.