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: Together we discuss a way for supporting the student. Parent calls teacher to discuss student’s difficulty with homework/behavior and ask how they can help their student. Teacher shares what they have been doing in class and shows the teacher has noticed the struggles. Together we discuss a way for supporting the student. Reality is that neither the parent nor the teacher seem to have time for the kind of in depth view this requires. We all wish we did. As a high school teacher I had 30 to 35 kids in each class period giving me about 180 students every semester, 360 every year. Even One minute on the phone or in email for each student is 3 hours of work. Every day I had grading, lesson planning, remediation planning, and tests to write so beyond the school day I already had 2 to 3 hours of work to do. Contacting parents by phone occurred when I really had to do it, but I did try to leave detailed comments on the computer grading system, and I sent notes home with students (especially for success stories).