Parent teacher relationship

Parent teacher relationship
Parents provide children with their first learning experiences, starting with eating, sitting, walking, colouring at kindergarten, writing and reading at school etc. Since parents help their kids in establishing their basic developmental milestones in life they can also help them do well at school.
Therefore reinforcing a strong parent-teacher partnership would be an indisputable strategy in guaranteeing support of children’s learning process in educational institutions. It’s been confirmed from experts that a positive parent-teacher relationship contributes to children’s school success.
Though it is not as easy as you may think. There are teachers your child will love and teachers your child may not love. You probably like some teachers than some others, too. There are teachers who may adore your child and those who just don’t understand him.
But whatever the case, your child’s teacher is the second most important person in your child’s life (after the parents, of course). And you can help make their relationship a strong and rewarding one.
“A positive parent-teacher relationship helps your child feel good about school and be successful in school,” advises Diane Levin, Ph.D., professor of education at Wheelock College. “It demonstrates to your child that he can trust his teacher because you do. This positive relationship makes a child feel like the important people in his life are working together.”
Parents provide children with their first learning experiences, starting with eating, sitting, walking, colouring at kindergarten, writing and reading at school etc. Since parents help their kids in establishing their basic developmental milestones in life they can also help them do well at school.
Therefore reinforcing a strong parent-teacher partnership would be an indisputable strategy in guaranteeing support of children’s learning process in educational institutions. It’s been confirmed from experts that a positive parent-teacher relationship contributes to children’s school success.
Though it is not as easy as you may think. There are teachers your child will love and teachers your child may not love. You probably like some teachers than some others, too. There are teachers who may adore your child and those who just don’t understand him.
But whatever the case, your child’s teacher is the second most important person in your child’s life (after the parents, of course). And you can help make their relationship a strong and rewarding one.
“A positive parent-teacher relationship helps your child feel good about school and be successful in school,” advises Diane Levin, Ph.D., professor of education at Wheelock College. “It demonstrates to your child that he can trust his teacher because you do. This positive relationship makes a child feel like the important people in his life are working together.” reat communication is very key to making this relationship work. “Communication on both sides is extremely important,” notes teacher Susan Becker, M. Ed. “Parents need information about what and how their child is learning, and teachers need important feedback from parents about the child’s academic and social development.”
Trying to communicate with a busy teacher that has up to 30 students in a class might not be that easy. When’s the right time to talk — and when isn’t? How can you get her attention? What should you bring up with her and what should be left alone? How do you create a relationship with someone you may only see a few times a year? And how do you do this without being overanxious?
Strategies
These are the strategies we constantly encourage at Greensprings school. They’ll help you build a positive relationship with your child’s teacher. They are based on pbs recommendation.