Managing Parent Teacher Meetings
For International Schools organising Parent Teacher Meetings can be a huge challenge, especially when parents can be located in different countries and in different time zones. However, parent teacher meetings are a vital part of engaging with parents for International Schools and Serco Learning understand this which is why we offer the PEBS solution.
PEBS is a Parents Evening Booking System that uses the very latest cloud technology and the concept is simple – to make organising parents evening or parent teacher meetings as quick and efficient as possible, to ensure that they run smoothly and that the potential is maximized for both parents and teachers. The system is currently used by schools across the world, that have parents evening or parent teacher meetings during the day.
Serco Learning know that it can be hard for International Schools to contact and schedule time with parents for meetings, again due to the fact that the parents could be anywhere in the world. However, the PEBS solution takes away this headache and makes it easy. An e-mail can be sent to parents advising them when parent teacher meetings are coming up and providing them with their own, secure login to the online booking system. The system is easy-to-use and allows parents to plan their own structured schedule for parent teacher meetings by booking online with all of their child’s teachers at the times that suit them. In addition parents can also highlight any areas of concern regarding their child’s education by adding notes to the appointment when they make it. This ensures that meetings are relevant and that both parents and teachers can be prepared.
International School users of the system have told Serco Learning that it has saved them vast amounts of time traditionally spent organising parent appointments. Plus the system manages teachers who teach multiple subjects, prevents double-bookings, and works within any constraints that teachers have set. In addition to which it can cope with parents of more than one child, siblings, twins, and much more.
Another aspect of the challenge of organising parent teacher meetings for International Schools is ensuring participation. With the PEBS solution the school can run reports before and after the meetings have taken place, to easily identify those that have not yet booked to attend or did not attend. These reports can be filtered in a number of ways including by class or department or teacher.
To find out more about how the PEBS solution from Serco Learning can help to make organising your International Schools parent teacher meetings quick and easy, contact our International Schools Team now on 00 44 (0) 1332 660555 or email us on enquiries@sercolearning.com
