Parent
Meetings
Monthly classroom parent meetings are mandatory.
Your
attendance and involvement in parent meetings is vital to the success
of the co-op program. The family member who is co-oping needs to
attend the meeting. If you have more than one child make arrangements
for one family member to attend each child's co-op classroom. Meetings
are held in the classrooms. This meeting is devoted to business,
planning problem solving, discussion of issues relevant to co-op,
or inservice training. During the class meetings the teacher and
parents may:
1. Brainstorm
instructional activities for the coming weeks
2. Establish the following month's schedule
3. Discuss and approve field trips (critique prior field trips
4. Praise, voice constructive criticism and express concerns
5. Update the classroom calendar and discuss lessons and activities
planned for the coming month
Leave ALL
children at home during parent meetings
Parents
and teachers meet the first and second week of school. At the first
meeting parents will sign-up for classroom participation time. The
teachers will send a curriculum outline home with the parents. A
follow-up parent meeting will be held the second week of school
also.
Parents
will not co-op in the classroom the first two weeks of school.
At
the April meeting the co-op teacher for the next grade will outline
for the parents how his/her class is organized and what will be
needed from the parents. Each teacher has a different set of needs
based on the curriculum and the grade level.
In
May, an orientation or get-together of current co-op familes and
new families will take the place of the monthly meeting.
A
general meeting (for all classes) of up to one-half hour may be
held at the time of monthly meeting.
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