What the Teacher needs to learn from the Parent
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You know, I spend a lot of time talking about what I would like for my child’s teachers and administrators to know about my son. And, I think that’s true with most parents. And, with that fact being said, I think our teachers generally want to know about our kids and more about what goes on at home, but sometimes it simply isn’t possible for them to take it all in.
So, with that, my suggestion would be to:
- Be brief, they don’t necessarily need all of the background as to how and why (although my son’s teacher probably just fell out of her chair laughing because I give so much detail is numbing).
- Make sue the teacher understand who is Mamaw, who is Nanny, who is Nonny, who is Papaw, whos Grampa. No the teacher can remember all that but she can remember it well enough to acknowledge that he/she’s heard those names before.
- Ask questions about family health. I know my mom has cancer and when she is sick and can’t spend time with kids, it affects them a lot.
- Know if there is a parent or older sibling who can help a child with an assignment before you send it home. If the project requires a lot in adult supervision then maybe it needs to be done at school. Kid just aren’t meant to put sticks together with glue guns and the such without adult supervision.
- And, finally I’ll hush but if you have 20 students, 10 students or 60 students, realize that the good ones are good and have been steered in the right direction – you can just keep leading. Some of the students will be just half-way getting around because they think no one really cares - here’s your chance, get to the kid, his/her hobbies, his family life, and then there’s those kids are on the end where you do all of the above and you do it for 100 kids over and over and the sad think is, you still can’t get them all.
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