This paper deals with the quality of communication at parent-teacher conference. The theoretical part focuses on the importance of educators' communicational competence as a precondition for a good communication. There are also listed the reasons of fear and shame that educators feel in this type of public speech and the ways in which those fears could be reduced. This part of the paper discuses the role of a formal education in preparing educators for public speeches. The stages of the preparation of a parent-teacher conference are also explained. There is a systematic overview of speech and rhetorical characteristics in leading a parent-teacher conference. The aim of the empirical part was to establish communicational and structural characteristics of parent-teacher confereces which are held by educators. The results of the emipircal part of the paper imply that educators invest their time in preparing the structure of a conference, but some parts are more elaborate than others. Their speech is usually prepared and expressive. Professional terms are moderately present. Furthermore, educators use different ways to encourage parents' communication despite slightly lower assessments of the clarity of their own speech. The awareness of the time dimension of a parent meeting, as well as the frequent use of modern technologies such as comupters and overhead projectors, is also assessed as slightly lower. Due to above-mentioned, it is considered that additional research on this topic could be useful to educators.