Rebuilding the Parent-Teacher Partnership (Part 3 of 3)
In Part 2, we looked at how parents need to change their approach, focussing on what they need to work on with their children, rather than what they need to punish. Now, it’s important to look at the teacher’s role in this relationship. As a result of today’s discipline, teachers are constantly informing parents about everything that children are doing wrong. In effect, they are complaining to parents rather than communicating with them. As a result, "communication books" have become "complaint books", and parent-teacher discussions are becoming stressful, confrontational ordeals.
To avoid this, follow one important rule. When you are communicating with parents, give them something to accomplish, not something to punish. When the parents send their children to school the next day, you don’t want them issuing threats of additional consequences. Instead, you want them to say, "Do you remember what we practiced last night?"
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