Holding parent-teacher meetings at the school allows both the class teacher and the parents of the students to keep abreast of the pulse, keep abreast of the problems of their children, topics on the agenda of the class, school, as well as search and find ways to solve accumulated issues. Parent meeting in the 6th grade should help minimize the impact of negative age factors on student performance, shape the joint goals of the class teacher and parents of students.
Parent meeting planning
The class teacher carries out preliminary annual work planning for interaction with official representatives of students. The topics of parental meetings (Grade 6) should reflect the pressing problems that arise in the process of teaching and raising children. Therefore, the implementation of the planning of such events is recommended to be done at the beginning of the year. The first parent meeting (Grade 6) will allow you to finally decide on issues that need to be addressed by conducting a survey of parents that reflects topics of interest to them.
But there are also mandatory issues that need to be discussed during joint meetings. The topics of parent-teacher meetings (Grade 6) must include conversations about age-related characteristics of the physical, intellectual, mental development of children of this age, on the prevention of asocial behavior of students, intermediate and final learning outcomes, etc.
The plan drawn up by the teacher is not final; as necessary, it can be supplemented on an operational basis with aspects that require consideration. The topics of parent-teacher meetings (Grade 6) should largely relate to the teenage crisis. Moms and dads should have a clear idea of the difficulties that may arise at this time. Subjects of parent class meetings will be variable. The teacher himself, being guided by the needs of his class, can correct the plan drawn up at the beginning of the school year, making adjustments there.
Class Parent Meeting Protocol
In order to streamline and systematize the work done, a list of mandatory documentation has been developed, which should be kept by the class teacher, carrying out the pedagogical process. The document to be drawn up during formal meetings with parents is the minutes of the parent meeting in the classroom. Drafting it will allow you to record the appearance of parents, reflect the course of consideration of key issues, and summarize decisions taken collectively.
The minutes of the parent meeting (Grade 6) are drawn up by the secretary of the meeting, who is elected from among the official representatives of the students present. Initially, it is possible to write this document by hand, but taking into account the development of IT technologies today, a more acceptable option is printed.
The minutes of the parent meeting (Grade 6) must be kept for at least 1 calendar year as a confirmation of the legitimacy of the decisions made.
Features of the first parent meeting
At the first official meeting with parents in the 6th grade, classroom leaders are given target settings aimed at forming the legal representatives of children with an idea of the content of the educational and educational work that will be carried out during the school year. In addition, the installation meeting should consider organizational issues related to extracurricular activities (trips, trips, excursions, holiday and educational events), logistics of the educational process.
Subsequent meetings will be based on an approved plan.
Features of the physical, intellectual, mental development of children 11-13 years old
Grade 6 is the period in the life of a child when childhood ends and adolescence begins, which often causes new problems in raising children.
Anticipating the emergence of such
problems, a parent meeting in the 6th grade, under the guidance of a teacher, should reveal to mothers and fathers the main issues related to the physical, intellectual, mental development of children 11-13 years old.
Physiology
During this period, the physiology of the child begins to rebuild. Sexual differences become more apparent due to a “hormonal explosion” in the body. In this regard, parents need to conduct discussions with children about puberty, explain the causes and consequences of such processes.
Such conversations will normalize the child’s attitude to the process of growing up, form the correct perception of gender differences between girls and boys. Parental meeting in the 6th grade should give those present an idea of the need for sex education of adolescents in order to prevent a variety of diseases in children, unwanted pregnancy in girls.
Psychology
Changes in children during this period occur not only at the level of physiology. The integrity of the body determines the occurrence of psychological restructuring. The child goes to the stage of "adulthood" when he still cannot fully be responsible for his actions, but claims to be an adult. His self-esteem is only just beginning to take shape, therefore, reasonable support in this matter will help to avoid internal conflicts, and excessive one can become a source of egocentrism.
For parents at this stage in the development of the child, patience and understanding are important. An authoritarian approach in relations with a child is unacceptable; it is necessary to allow an adult child to do things, but it is no less necessary to control them. In case of excessive pressure on the child from the side of the parents, the manifestation of
asocial behavior is possible
: smoking, alcohol, dysfunctional companies, unjustified changes in appearance. Tolerance of such behavior will allow tolerance and attention from loved ones. A parent meeting in grade 6 should encourage parents to promote a healthy lifestyle by example.
Intellectual development of adolescents
During the period of the “hormonal explosion”, the intellectual sphere of the child also undergoes a change. The age of 11-13 years, when intellectual development is carried out most progressively. The child at this time already has abstract and figurative thinking, however, despite the ability to classify the phenomena of reality, to analyze them according to the principles of analogy, he is not yet capable.
Adolescents of this age “suffer” a superficial knowledge of everything. It is possible to change the situation radically, giving a feasible intellectual load. This applies to both school activities and extracurricular activities. Parents need to keep their child outside school hours visiting circles, sections, etc., which will ensure the prevention of his asocial behavior.
Teen and IT
Adolescence, as we have already noted, is characterized by external and internal changes in the personality of the child. The most important factor affecting the development vector is the family.
The upbringing of adolescents should take into account the characteristics of the age period, with an understanding of their natural curiosity, with a desire to expand the circle of communication.
The most affordable means of satisfying cognitive, communicative needs for adolescents today is a computer (tablet, smartphone, etc.). However, parents should not distance themselves from children at this age. The result of such a distance will be the search for interlocutors on the Internet. Here you should be very careful, control the child’s social circle, limit the time of active use of gadgets, pay attention, listen to problems and, through advice, adjust the child’s behavior. Confidence in relations at this stage will be the key to successful socialization of the teenager in the future.
Self-training is a means of successful self-realization
Given the instability of this period of growing up of children, the results of their learning activities are also zigzag.
In the 6th grade, students deal with more than one teacher, as in elementary school. They are faced with subject teachers. In this regard, their ability to learn largely depends on the relationship with each of the teachers, on the professional qualities of the teacher teaching his subject, to gain the attention of the students.
The formation of independence of thinking in this period is only beginning. One of the directions in the development of intellectual activity at this age is the development of speech. It allows you to formulate concepts and carry out mental operations with them. Thus, figurative thinking is formed - the basis of the divergent perception of the world, which is manifested in the variability of answers to the same question.
Creative thinking allows you to take the initiative, which positively affects the results of cognitive activity and prepares the student for an independent search for truth. An indispensable assistant in the formation of an independent search interest of a teenager will be reading, which will also affect the increase in the level of speech activity.
Independence of the development of knowledge is the result of educational activities that will allow the student to make their own non-standard decisions in the future.
Physical development of adolescents
Along with problems of an intellectual nature, there is also the problem of the physical development of children. This period of growing up, as we have said, is unstable. Hormonal changes affect the spiritual sphere of the child, so the leading role of parents should also be manifested in the formation of priorities for a healthy lifestyle.
The best way to educate a physically healthy person is a personal example. Therefore, the family needs the tradition of joint sports. It does not have to be a gym, swimming pool, fitness club. Understanding the level of employment of parents, an acceptable option may be to conduct daily joint runs, weekend trips.
A child at this age is able to be critical of others, which makes it impossible to achieve positive results with a simple moralizing on the usefulness of physical activity. Without involving parents in this activity, it is impossible to attract a teenager to a healthy lifestyle.
Lack of attention to the physical development of children can lead to their overweight, which will affect the level of self-esteem, and, as a result, will reveal an increase in the level of conflict. Another side effect, so to speak, may be an attempt to occupy yourself with smoking, alcohol, drugs.
Thus, the physical development of a teenager is the most important issue in the education of a healthy person.
Summarizing
Mandatory to consider are the issues of the effectiveness of educational and educational activities. The final parent meeting in the class should consider the results of six months and annual results.
Summing up the results implies an analysis of the correspondence of the planned activity to the obtained result, a search for ways to solve the accumulated problems in the training and education of adolescents in the classroom, and obtaining recommendations for improving student performance.
The parent meeting, the development (grade 6) of which we find in the methodological literature, does not imply publicly voicing the achievements and problems of individual students. The emphasis should be on the achievements of the entire class, typical problems for all students.