The studies and experiences that the parent-teacher partnership made a good  results  contributes to your child’s school success.

“Easier said than done,” you may be thinking. After all, there are teachers your child will love and teachers your child may not. There are teachers you’ll like and dislike as well. 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 especially inside the school. And a parents 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.”

Communicating well is a key factor for making this relationship work. Everybody knew that communication on both sides is extremely important. “The parents need information about what and how their child is learning, and the teacher needs important feedback from the parent about the child’s academic and social development.”

But communicating effectively with a busy teacher, who may have up to 45-65 learners in a class, can be challenging. When’s the right time to talk — and when isn’t? How can you get his/her attention? What should you bring up with him/her with and what should be left alone? How do you create a relationship with someone you may only see a few times a year because of learners absentism? And how do you do this without coming across like an overanxious pain in the you-know-what?

 

By: Lourdes D. Icawat | Teacher I | Cabcaben Elementary School | Mariveles, Bataan