Practical Tips on How to Involve Parents in the ‘New Normal’ Set-up

Ensuring that parents receive messages and content that is both important and meaningful is vital to their participation in school life. To stop 'bombarding' parents with unwanted details, think about what you're trying to drive parents and what you're happy for them to read at their own time. This allows you to be clear with your communications strategy: apply the use of various formats like FB messages, SMS, etc. to specific forms of correspondence, and parents will already understand the essence and context of the conversation when it is opened.

Encourage accountability by constant communication. The more parents appreciate the learning process, the more they are involved, and the more they can help their children's learning. This allows teachers to ensure that parents have exposure to both the instruction and the learning materials that their children need. However, parents still need to consider the strides their child is experiencing and the difficulties they are facing.

Explore opportunities to teach parents about the education process. It is also so easy to overlook that we are professionals in education, and the things we believe for instance are new to them. We can do this by simply and concisely setting goals for their kids, as well as for the parents. They have to realize that it's completely natural for grades to go up and down if they haven't done so, we don't challenge our students properly.

Identifying the requirements of the education system helps management to be more constructive in their approach to collaboration, to resolve problems before they intensify, and to monitor the effects of the school plan.

Schools, like any organization, flourish in an environment of transparency and collaboration. If everyone is committed to reaching a shared goal, there's a higher probability of achievement and stronger interaction between the school and community.

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The author is Teacher III at Caluluan High School