How to properly organize a parent meeting at a preschool educational institution?

How to properly organize a parent meeting at a preschool educational institution?

• October 13, 2009

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.

In the Kindergarten “MDOU No. 2 of compensatory type” (Ekaterinburg), where I work, the following forms of holding parent meetings are used:

• psychological training;
• Master Class;
• joint activities between children and parents;
• Open Day;
• showing theatrical productions.

Preparing the 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, make 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. As one of the forms of activating parental attention, a tape recording of children’s answers to questions on the topic of the meeting can be used.

6. Occasionally we 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 you must:

• 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 the 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, appliqué;
• consider who will provide child care during the meeting and how.

Conducting a parent meeting

The 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.

Let me give you an example: at the last parent meeting in our kindergarten, the topic was discussed

“Preparing the hands of older preschoolers for writing”

Form of conduct: seminar-workshop.

Participants: group teachers, art teacher, parents.

Parts of the collection

1. Introductory part (5-7 min).

• Presentation by the teacher of the topic and participants of the meeting.
• Tour of the exhibition of workbooks and children's activity products.

2. Main part (30-35 min).

• Speech by the group teacher on the topic “The importance and methods of developing fine motor skills in children of the preparatory group for school”, accompanied by posters with key theses and words on the topic of the speech, showing patterns of finger games (10-15 min).
• Conducting a workshop by a visual arts teacher with parents on mastering techniques for developing fine motor skills using clay, plasticine and paper (10-15 min).
• Presentation of an exhibition of didactic games for the development of fine motor skills (5 min).
• Collective solution by parents of a crossword puzzle on the topic of the meeting (5 min). An approximate list of words that need to be guessed: motor skills, hand, vision, brain, coordination, correlation, writing, school.

3. Miscellaneous (7-10 min).

• Review of pedagogical literature on the topic of the meeting.
• Discussion of issues of maintaining children in kindergarten, leisure activities, organization of joint events between family and preschool educational institution.

4. Summing up (3-5 min).

• Parents' quantitative assessment of the benefits of parent-teacher conferences.
• Distributing booklets to parents on the topic of the meeting.

In conclusion, I would like to emphasize that the family and kindergarten are connected by common tasks in raising a child. Therefore, what is important here is not the principle of parallelism, but the principle of interpenetration of two social institutions: it is difficult for a family to cope without qualified assistance from specialists.

In the photo: the staff of our kindergarten, always ready to help parents.

Author: E. Kobylina, teacher of compensatory preschool educational institution No. 2 in Yekaterinburg

How to hold a meeting in kindergarten

Parent meetings are held throughout the kindergarten and only in a separate group. In addition, depending on the issues raised at the meeting, the following can be distinguished:

• current;
• thematic;
• organizational;
• final.

Any type of meeting will require the organizers to prepare, search for approaches to parents, because it is necessary not only to share some information with them, but also to reach them, to try to “mobilize” them for some specific actions, for example, in analyzing behavior or raising a child. Sometimes it is even difficult to ensure the attendance of parents.

The presence of parents is mandatory when considering the following issues:

• reporting information about the educational process and results;
• innovations in the field of preschool education;
• conflict resolution;
• if cooperation with parents is mandatory, then making decisions on all functional changes in the work of the preschool educational institution.

At the end of the meeting, the minutes of the parent meeting in the kindergarten are drawn up and signed.

How are the minutes of the parent meeting drawn up?

During the meeting, it is necessary to draw up minutes - this is done by the secretary of the event. It can be any preschool teacher. The secretary can develop and use a pre-created minutes template and complete it during the meeting. Templates and samples of protocols for parent meetings in kindergarten are presented at the end of the article.

Minutes of preschool educational institutions meetings:

• record the progress of the meeting;
• provide a report to senior management on the implementation of assigned tasks;
• record existing orders;
• provide the opportunity to receive a report on the execution of tasks;
• help in resolving disputes.

The legislation does not oblige the use of certain frameworks for document execution. It can be drawn up on A4 paper and filled out manually or using a computer. The document header should contain:

• name of the preschool institution;
• theme of the meeting;
• date and location;
• number of participants.

The “Agenda” section should display the issues that will be discussed. They need to be formulated briefly.

The “Reports” section contains:

• a summary of the participants' speeches;
• questions from participants;
• answers to them.

At the end of the meeting, the minutes should contain all the information about the various issues discussed at the meeting, all the reports, as well as the solutions reached.

The minutes of the parent meeting in kindergarten must be certified by the chairman and secretary of the meeting. Sometimes the protocol is also signed by members of the parent committee. If the purpose of the meeting was to inform parents about something important (For example: a flu epidemic, the danger from ticks, etc.), you can draw up a “Familiarization Sheet.” It is signed by all those present and added to the minutes of the meeting as an appendix.

Decisions made during the meeting are binding on all children and parents, regardless of their presence at the meeting. If an important decision was made during the meeting, it is necessary to familiarize all parents with it (even those who were absent). To do this, you can call or place an ad in the “parents’ corner.”