Can teachers app enhance parent teachers communication?
Parent involvement means a connection between the child’s two primary ecosystems- the home and the school. Collaboration with parents helps identify a child’s needs and how parents can contribute to their child’s education. There is a direct connection between parents-teacher engagement in a child’s education and academic performance.
To this end, we suggest that teachers invite parents to regular school meetings and events, and parents also voluntarily commit to keeping the school activities as the top priority. Parental involvement is important for the school, the teachers, and above all, the students.
Many parents believe that the communication between them and teachers is ineffective, and many a time there is a paucity of time hence they prefer online communication (via texts, emails, or social networks, instead of attending briefings or conferences). Technology-enabled classrooms or using teachers app like Chronicle Cloud make a faster connection with parents. In my opinion, we should use technology to its full potential. What is important is parents’ involvement in their child’s learning process and not the medium.
The best predictor of a student’s success is the extent to which families encourage learning and involve themselves in their child’s education. According to education experts, parent engagement in school is when parents and teachers share the responsibility to help the child learn and meet educational goals.
It becomes challenging for teachers when the students do not receive any support at home. After the ‘No Child Left Behind (NCLB)’ the focus has shifted from involvement of parents to parent engagement. In various studies-parent engagement was found to be directly linked with the student’s achievement. It raised the performance of the child and there was a phenomenal drop in student absenteeism.
