Title: Parents and Teachers: What Does an Effective Partnership Look Like? - ED.gov Blog
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Parents and Teachers: What Does an Effective Partnership Look Like?
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Content: As a teacher I believe keeping a continuous line of communication with the parents is crucial. Not all parents have the time or ability to stay proactively involved in their child’s daily school progress. Never have I heard of a parent that did not appreciate being actively included in their child’s daily or weekly activities. Many parents avoid contact with a teacher until major problems occur because they are unfamiliar with the process. I have heard in many schools that teachers, at times, give up including parents because it appears they are apathetic. I believe in most cases a lack of involvement by parents is caused by a bit of fear. I think it is quite uncomfortable for parents to bridge the gap of communication problems. Basically, both parents and teachers want and need to have better communication in order to work as a team in the child’s education. However, it is hard to converge the two paths. One way to create daiy or weekly discussion is to use the on-line system schools now have.