Title: Establishing healthy parent-teacher relationships for early learning success – Early Learning Network
Headings: Establishing healthy parent-teacher relationships for early learning success
Establishing healthy parent-teacher relationships for early learning success
29 Aug Establishing healthy parent-teacher relationships for early learning success
Why are healthy parent-teacher relationships important?
The Three C’s: How to form a constructive parent-teacher partnership
Communication
Consistency
Collaboration
Reach out early and often

Content: And parents and teachers benefit, too. When working together as partners, it’s been found that parents and teachers communicate more effectively, develop stronger relationships with one another and develop skills to support children’s behaviors and learning. “Building partnerships between families and schools is an effective strategy to address opportunity gaps, especially for those who have been historically underserved,” said Iheoma Iruka, co-principal investigator of ELN’s University of Nebraska-Lincoln team and chief research innovation officer and director of the Center for Early Education Research & Evaluation at HighScope Educational Research Foundation. “ Strong partnerships support children’s learning and ability to develop lifelong skills and networks, while also strengthening parents’ capacity to be engaged in their child’s school experience.” The Three C’s: How to form a constructive parent-teacher partnership
Partnerships are most powerful when they include three main components, represented as the “3 C’s”: communication, consistency and collaboration. Communication
The first is communication between home and school. Like any relationship in life, communication between you and your child’s teacher is key. Communicate with your child’s teacher early on and throughout the school year.