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.