Tips for Successful Parent-Teacher Relationship

Dear Parents and Caregivers,

Every day, teachers face a classroom of students who have their own unique way of learning. Here are a few ways you can help the classroom teacher best meet the needs of your child:

• Form a solid, trusting relationship with your child's teacher is the key to a successful inclusive-classroom experience. Use your own observations about your child's abilities and share them with the teacher.
• Together you can construct a developmental profile that includes strengths and weaknesses. You can report on how your child is functioning at home to help gauge whether or not he or she is demonstrating all of his capabilities in the classroom.
• In turn, the teacher might be able to suggest some things that you can do at home to reinforce learning. Integrating what is done at school and at home helps children move up the educational developmental ladder.

Meeting children at their own level of development and fostering that stage enables students of all abilities to progress to higher levels of learning.