The Art of Effective Communication with Your Child’s School

These notorious little creatures are always up for some mischief or the other, and hiding various important details of the school is one of them. But, it is immensely important for you, as parents, to work closely with the responsible bodies of the school, and ensure that your child is headed in a direction of excellence and development. It is a great challenge faced by the parents to be in constant touch with the class teachers and counselors at school. 

Parent Teacher Communication

We already have busy schedules, and even busier are the roads. Hence, it becomes really difficult to reach the school in person and discuss about the overall growth and development of the child. However, with technology becoming a chief ruling factor in our lives, a lot of schools and parents are collaborating online to be updated about the progress and development of the child. In this article, we shall discuss various ways in which a parent can maintain effective communication lines with the school authorities and help the child reach out to the zenith of his or her potential.

The good old dear diary

Traditionally, it used to the good old hard bound diary, which would be govern the communication taking place between the parent and the teacher. Teachers would write remark; assign homework etc in the diary and parents would proceed accordingly at home. However, with time, these little naughty beings become real pros at hiding away the diary and hence obstructing the lines of communication between the parent and the child.

As a parent, motivate your child to share the remarks in his or her diary with you. Give him enough confidence to not the dread the diary, no matter how many red marks it contains, and try explaining to him that a problem can be solved, a weakness can be overcome, but only if he regularly maintains the diary.

The boon of the technology

Alternatively, a lot of schools have now started using online collaboration channels, where the teachers keep the parents posted about the growth and development of the child. Various achievers and high rankers are felicitated on the online collaboration channel itself, and parents can easily talk to the teachers through various websites.

Besides, schools also hand out emails and newsletters to keep the parents posted about their child and various activities and endeavors organized by the school authorities in the light of your child’s progress and development.

At the time of admission, or perhaps later, ask the school authorities in what all way they plan to touch bases with your regarding the growth and development of your child. At any moment, you should have the following information ready with you, in order to get in touch the school.

• The school’s web address
• Telephone number of the school
• Email id of the school, the class teacher or the principal or student counselor
• The periodical reports of your child’s progress – both academic and co-curricular
• Any online forum which supports parent – teacher interaction.

With the help of all this information, you will be able to communicate with the school authorities in a much more consistent, streamlined and organized manner. Also, to search out for schools for your child which are using these latest technologies for communication, you can make use of online school portals.