Communicating Effectively with Parents

Building relationship with parents is important. Moreover it is needed to communicate the progress of students to their parents. However, building relationship with parents is challenging since parents’ characteristics are different. If the parents are supportive and want to be involved in their kids’ progress, it will be a lot easier for teacher to communicate with them. Meanwhile it will be very challenging if the parents are distant to their kids and they tend to rely on teacher’s role to help their kids’ progress.

In this lesson, I learned that parents’ meeting in the first semester is really needed. It will be the first step for teachers to get to know the parents, and also to bond with them. However the relationship which is built between teacher and parents has to stay professional. If teachers can have good relationship with parents, students’ progress can be controlled as well.