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Building Parent Teacher Relationship

The key to student success is collaboration between parents and teachers. Effective communication is crucial for building these relationships, especially during remote learning periods like the COVID-19 pandemic. Teachers can introduce themselves to parents, learn about students' interests through surveys, and translate communications into families' native languages. Making positive initial phone calls home, sending home activity bags, and hosting family events like poetry night help involve parents and make meaningful connections between home and school.

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Building Parent Teacher Relationship

The key to student success is collaboration between parents and teachers. Effective communication is crucial for building these relationships, especially during remote learning periods like the COVID-19 pandemic. Teachers can introduce themselves to parents, learn about students' interests through surveys, and translate communications into families' native languages. Making positive initial phone calls home, sending home activity bags, and hosting family events like poetry night help involve parents and make meaningful connections between home and school.

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Building parent teacher relationship

The key for a student’s success in learning is having the parent and teacher work collaboratively . Today
many students have many different kinds of families. (Week 4 Video #1 Factors in Involvement)
Communication with their family is crucial for parent/teacher relationships. Now with COVID-19 19 in
our community it is even more important that we involve our families and community resources to keep
our children engage in learning. Before the school year begins, I write a short letter introducing myself ,
giving some information about myself , my family, and some special interests . This is also posted on my
teacher website too. It is a welcome greeting to all. On the first day of school, I have my students fill
out a short survey of things they like to do and their dislikes. Examples: what is your favorite pastime,
what is your favorite kind of music , what subject do you like the least, what your best strength and
weakness etc. If the students share a particular type of music, I welcome them each morning with a
song from that genre and later introduce one of my favorites.

Parents know their children the best. This year at the Parents Night at school, I give the parent a short
survey to fill out about their child . Examples of questions may be: What is your child’s strengths and
weaknesses, what is your child’s favorite type of music and pastime, what is a family routine you and
your child enjoys. The parents like to hear you are interested in their child and that you are willing to
listen to their thoughts. On that parent night I gave a short note to the students about how I enjoyed
meeting their parent/family member. Parents shared their own note to their child The children get very
excited the next day seeing the notes. On one parent conference we made sure we had an interpreter
so that the family could understand all that was being said at the conference. Also, any notes or flyers
sent home we translated for the family in their native language. (Video #1 factors Involvement Week 4) .
Small activity bags are sent home with book to read together but also a list of community and fun home
activities that they can do together to promote learning. Example cooking with your child, simple
science experiment, exercise challenge , zoo discount passes ( week 4 Video 2 Parent is the first teacher)
This was very important this year (COVID-19 ) to have lunches and activities for the families, so we have
a healthy and successful learners.

Today many families have two parents working so this can be an issue in parent involvement. The one
practice that is constant for me through the year is making a phone call in the beginning of the first
semester to talk to the parents about their child. Many times, they only get phone calls when their child
is in trouble. The initial call is to tell a positive thing about what you see in class they are doing and how
proud I am of that accomplishment. Usually this is an ice breaker for parents to open up and start a
dialogue. This practice is also done throughout the year by emails or a short “I’m proud of your child
today because… note. (Video #1 factors in involvement)

It is important to create special moments to reach out to parents for involvement without asking for
anything in return. In class, we worked on a special poetry project. We had “Poetry Night” so parents
can hear their child work. In working with younger grades, I have a family member come in and share
to the class a favorite book that their child and they enjoy together. You may want to display pictures of
these favorite books for a culminating activity with the class and send this list home to the families so
they can enjoy. This year this was done virtually so we could have family -school connections. Past
years on Halloween, we have school trick or treat event. The children come with their families and go to
each room and see their teachers dressed up ( some with their family members) and get a treat. It is a
big parade of Halloween costumes. It an informal time to see everyone family and meet yours. (Video
#3 Six different levels in which parents might get involved)

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