Syftet med denna undersökning är att få en uppfattning om hur kommunikation kan ske mellan hem och skola.  Intressant är också att få en uppfattning om hur ofta det sker.  Forskningsfrågorna är; Hur väljer lärare att kommunicera med hemmet och vad fungerar bäst? Hur ofta kontaktar föräldrarna skolan och varför?  Vad är det som föräldrarna frågar när de kontaktar lärare? Metoderna som användes var enkät och intervjuer. Utifrån resultatet från undersökningen fick jag en uppfattning om hur kommunikationen ser ut mellan hemmet och skolan.  Resultatet av undersökningen visade att föräldrakontakterna fungerade bra.  Slutsatsen är att kommunikationen mellan skolan och hemmet fungerar bra.  Det vanligaste kommunikationssättet var veckobrev från skolan.  Att veckobrev fungerar bra som kommunikationssätt.  Telefon användes om det behövdes en snabb återkoppling.  När föräldrarna kontaktade skolan använde de sig av telefon.

<p>The aim of this paper is to define and analyze how the teacher and parents communicate during a parent conference, to acquire knowledge about how the professional conversation can be used during a parent conference. Our study has focused on the teacher’s professional skills during the parent conference. Parent conference has traditional been a time for teachers to inform the parents about the classroom work. It has always been a one- way communication (Alfakir, 2004), but the curriculum stats that parents should have more influence and be a part of the school. The teacher needs therefore to form the parent conference in a way that creates a dialog instead of a monolog. If the teacher does this in a professional way, he/she would get the parents trust and make the parents more involved. We observed parent conference in school and preschool. Our research shows that the teachers use different skills during a parent conference to communicate and create a professional conversation. They tried to create a dialog, but most of the time the teachers still used monolog which is not a professional way to handle a parent conference (Alfakir, 2004).</p>

The aim of this paper is to define and analyze how the teacher and parents communicate during a parent conference, to acquire knowledge about how the professional conversation can be used during a parent conference. Our study has focused on the teacher’s professional skills during the parent conference. Parent conference has traditional been a time for teachers to inform the parents about the classroom work. It has always been a one- way communication (Alfakir, 2004), but the curriculum stats that parents should have more influence and be a part of the school. The teacher needs therefore to form the parent conference in a way that creates a dialog instead of a monolog. If the teacher does this in a professional way, he/she would get the parents trust and make the parents more involved. We observed parent conference in school and preschool. Our research shows that the teachers use different skills during a parent conference to communicate and create a professional conversation. They tried to create a dialog, but most of the time the teachers still used monolog which is not a professional way to handle a parent conference (Alfakir, 2004).