Parents' day
The parents' day is a regular opportunity for parents to talk to the class teacher or a subject teacher of their children about their school performance, their behavior and other school-related topics. This can be done with or without the presence of the children.
procedure
For this purpose, each teacher goes to a (class) room assigned to him on the day of the consultation , where everyone can find him using a room plan and receives the parents there one after the other. Such an appointment usually lasts five to fifteen minutes and is only used to provide brief information about the performance, behavior and other abnormalities. This is not a one-way conversation by the teacher. Rather, parents should also share important information about their children that affects or could influence school performance. Longer discussions are usually only possible after a separate agreement and not on parenting day ( parenting discussion ).
The advantage for parents is that all teachers are available on one day and do not have to go to their office hours individually on different days.
The parents usually receive a written invitation from the school principal beforehand and the students receive a pre-printed schedule with times. Parents tell their children which teachers they would like to speak to and when this should happen, so that appointments can be made with the teachers.
Different regulations
Normal school life usually takes place in the morning . At all-day schools, students are exempted from teaching at the end of the sixth lesson. In larger schools, however, a parenting day can also take up a whole school day or several afternoons. In some schools this day is combined with an action. The students accompany their parents to the parents' day, prepare a buffet and donate the proceeds to social or school projects.
Alternatives
On the parents' day, only short interviews are available in quick succession. These series of discussions must therefore remain superficial. Appropriate response to individual interlocutors is only possible to a very limited extent. Instead of making an appointment on the parenting day, parents can attend the weekly consultation hour or contact the respective teacher at any time and ask for a conversation outside of the consultation day, also in the form of a telephone call. Such contact is made, for example, via the school secretariat, an informal written request sent by the child, or even by email. Within the framework of the school's organizational possibilities, the interview request is generally granted as soon as possible.
literature
- Lotte Kühn: Parents' Day: How bad is school really? What parents, pupils and teachers experience every day , Knaur Taschenbücher, June 2006, ISBN 3426779587
Individual evidence
- ↑ Parents' Day. Archived from the original on April 19, 2016 ; accessed on August 31, 2018 .
- ↑ Sample page of campaigns on parenting day. Polytechnische Schule Neulengbach, archived from the original on November 10, 2009 ; accessed on April 9, 2018 .