Partnerships+with+Families

Do you as a teacher keep in-touch with your students families?

Here are ways that I keep in constant contact with my students families.....

1. I always give them a phone number that has a machine to leave a message incase I am not around.

2. We have communication logs that go back and fourth between home and school daily. We write things such as Johnny did a good job working on math today. He was very responsible getting his lunch and sitting at the table. He helped out during gym cleaning up the equipment. He had a rough time during ELA when we were reading. He became very upset and had 1 minor aggression to a teacher. He seemed be smile again after he took a minute in the thinking spot. Hope you have a great night.

Then we expect the parents to write something for the morning. One parent wrote " ________ had a rough night he was up all night and running around the house. He barely got any sleep so he may fall asleep during class. I gave him so coffee because you know how he loves coffee but it didn't seem to help. Call me if you need anything."

3. We send home monthly classroom newsletters. These state the trips for the month, what we have learned and what we will be learning as well as fun things to know about the classroom staff and students. We will sometimes include pictures.

I find that having an open relationship with parents creates a great learning environment for my students.