Build a relationship with your child’s class teacher
Feb 19, 2005
THEY toil to shape our children and parent them while we are away. Our children develop an attachment to them, yet many times we do not have the courtesy to know them.
Parenting - By Wagwau Jamesa
THEY toil to shape our children and parent them while we are away. Our children develop an attachment to them, yet many times we do not have the courtesy to know them.
When your child joins a new class or school, he or she is bound to have a new class teacher. By virtue of this position, the class teacher is expected to know and understand your child comprehensively. A class, irrespective of its size, is like a family. In a class, children share different learning activities and spend most time together. This level of proximity strengthens the bonds and instills brotherly relationships between the children.
The class teacher eventually becomes intimately involved in the children’s lives and is viewed as the head of the class ‘family’. He or she becomes the mentor, role model, guide and parent to the children. Your child is bound to know the class teacher more than any other teacher.
A cordial relationship between the class teacher and child facilitates effective learning. Since the teacher is a key factor in learning, child-teacher relationship determines whether the child hates or likes the school. This relationship begins from the first day the child joins a new class. The first impression is a lasting impression.
Before you unite your child with the class teacher, you must build a personal relationship with the class teacher. It all begins with you.
Did you know that teachers find it easy teaching a child whose background is clear to them?
If you haven’t made any initiative along this line, it is not too late. This is how to go about it:
Let the teacher know the number of schools your child has attended so far. This is because change of school has a far-reaching effect on the child’s learning.
If your child has ever repeated a class, avail this information to the class teacher.
Does your child have any chronic ailment? Does the ailment call for the attention of your family doctor or can the school nurse handle it?
What is your child’s temperament like and how does this affect his or her learning?
Does your child have problems in certain subjects?
Assure the child that the new class teacher is good and caring. Strange faces in a strange environment usually frighten young children.
To what extent should you get involved in your child’s learning? Is it okay to give the class teacher a call weekly to find out how your child is progressing?
Your child’s relationship with every teacher is a fundamental factor in the learning process.
The child must understand that few things are all bad or all good and no situation is black and white.
Interpersonal relationship is not based on perfection, but on adjustment and tolerance. Till next week.
jwagwau@newvision.co.ug
THEY toil to shape our children and parent them while we are away. Our children develop an attachment to them, yet many times we do not have the courtesy to know them.
When your child joins a new class or school, he or she is bound to have a new class teacher. By virtue of this position, the class teacher is expected to know and understand your child comprehensively. A class, irrespective of its size, is like a family. In a class, children share different learning activities and spend most time together. This level of proximity strengthens the bonds and instills brotherly relationships between the children.
The class teacher eventually becomes intimately involved in the children’s lives and is viewed as the head of the class ‘family’. He or she becomes the mentor, role model, guide and parent to the children. Your child is bound to know the class teacher more than any other teacher.
A cordial relationship between the class teacher and child facilitates effective learning. Since the teacher is a key factor in learning, child-teacher relationship determines whether the child hates or likes the school. This relationship begins from the first day the child joins a new class. The first impression is a lasting impression.
Before you unite your child with the class teacher, you must build a personal relationship with the class teacher. It all begins with you.
Did you know that teachers find it easy teaching a child whose background is clear to them?
If you haven’t made any initiative along this line, it is not too late. This is how to go about it:
The child must understand that few things are all bad or all good and no situation is black and white.
Interpersonal relationship is not based on perfection, but on adjustment and tolerance. Till next week.
jwagwau@newvision.co.ug