The Main Topics of the Lectures for Parents. An Analysis of the Planning Documents of Primary School Teachers

Abstract

Keywords:lectures for parents, parenting, the educational program for parents, educational counseling This study contains an analysis of the main topics of the sessions of counseling and guidance that are offered for the parents. We have identified 46 documents which contain the planning of lectures for parents. The documents were created by primary school teachers from Romania and have been published in the last 10 years on an online platform that is frequently used by primary school teachers. The platform was developed for the optimum experience exchange of the teachers of Romania. We were interested to find out what are the main topics of the lectures for parents and other counseling activities which are frequently held during the collective meetings with parents. We have discovered that most of the lectures for parents could be associated with the following domains: health and balanced nutrition, the impact of New Information and Communication Technologies on children's education, the education of children in the school space, the affective climate and the education of children in the family space, emotional balance and prosocial behaviours, individual and age particularities of the students (learning style, type of intelligence, qualities, abilities, preferences), and school-family collaboration. This study has revealed that at the beginning of the primary school cycle, the most frequent topics of the lectures for parents are: the education of children in the school space and school-family collaboration. At the same time, at the end of the elementary school cycle, the individual and age particularities of the students (learning style, type of intelligence, qualities, abilities, preferences) and the impact of New Information and Communication Technologies on children's development are given special importance.