Parent Meeting

Develop an interactive 60-minute meeting for families (not children) to engage them in learning about safe learning environments.

Review classroom resources and conduct independent research to find the most effective information for your audience and presentation style.

Explore the virtual classroom for additional safe environment ideas (http://veec.aap.org/index.html).

Use this Parent Meeting Plan to create your meeting plan. Your plan will include the following:

Title of lesson
Something that will draw the interest of your intended audience to your lesson

Intended audience
Parents and/or other family members

Focus
Identified safe environments topic and why it is important

Materials needed for the lesson
List everything you will need
Any handouts that you intend to provide for participants (this can be a handout title with a link or a copy of the handout)

Objective of lesson
What do you want them to learn from this workshop (i.e., At the end of this workshop, participants should be able to….”

Lesson steps
Label Activities – large or small group, pairs, individual
Label Discussions – large or small group, pairs
Include times (remember this is only 60 minutes)

Measuring Effectiveness
How will you make sure that participants learned what you wanted them to

Next Steps
What do you want them to do next, and how will the children be involved