Parent's Day - As a teacher

So now I am convinced that the audience plays an important role in directing your activities and approach on Parents Day. This week, I was the instructor giving a Parent's Day presentation. My principal instructed us to teach a lesson, as we normally would with our students, as a manner of giving parents insight to the class. This element immediately created a difference between my experience last week as a parent and the experience my parents would have in my class. Parents experienced the course versus sitting their for an "information dump". This method may not have worked at the evening Parent' Day I attend last week. The difference between this Parent's Day and the one I attended a week ago, is that one is a day school and the other a boarding school. Therefore, my parents are seeing their children for the first time in many weeks and they are also visiting for a longer period of time - Friday to Sunday. Due to the longer visit, parents follow their child through a typical day. Their attention is focused on the emotional and social well being that the boarding experience is creating in their child. Experiencing the environment for themselves may be the best way to facilitate that understanding.