Sunday, February 20, 2011
CT/Parent Communication
I think that my CT has great communication with the parents of the children in her classroom. I have seen multiple parents feel comfortable enough to come in to her classroom at the beginning of the day and talk briefly with her about their child or some other matters. My CT also has a phone in her classroom that I have seen her use to "call home" for some students if there is a miscommunication or sometimes as a threat if the child is really misbehaving. She also has these reading logs that she sends home in little reading bags with a different book every day and has the parents sign off on the students reading. She makes it a big priority to reach out to parents and make sure they are involved and aware of everything that is going on with their students. I think the most my teachers ever really did with parent involvement was see that at parent teacher conferences and they would send home letters every once in a while informing parents on what was going on or what we might be learning. I still really like the idea of having the parents write about their children as a way to start them off in the beginning with their child's learning process and then I think the teacher might encourage parents to come in to the schools on a designated day to observe their students learning. I think this could be beneficial to the parents because they can see how their child performs in class and ways they might be able to help them at home. I have not seen my CT have any parent volunteers in the classroom. The only time I see this is when some parents will randomly come in before school starts as I stated earlier.
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It sounds like your CT has great communication with the parents of students in your classroom. I think it is so important to have a relationship with the parents of your students because as one of the articles mentioned, parents are experts on their children. I really liked the idea of having parents write about their children at the beginning of the year. I think this would be beneficial in any setting and in any classroom. I think having parent volunteers in the classroom is a great way for parents to see their child in the classroom and to get a good idea about daily activities in the classroom. Although this is ideal, parent involvement can be tricky to deal with. For example in my placement, my CT has told me how frustrating it can be when parents are non-responsive and do not get involved in their child’s schoolwork. What do you think a teacher should do then? My CT tries to contact parents as many as three times (through phone calls, emails, and letters home) and then if he still gets no response he does not what else to do and usually just moves on. This would be very frustrating and it seems like a daunting task to force parents to communicate with you and get involved. Do you have any ideas as to what a teacher should do in this case? Or when should a teacher stop trying to get in contact with a parent after not receiving a response?
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