Communication with Teachers
by Pamela
I recently had an experience with my sons teacher that ended up disconnecting parent teacher communication. At my request and the teachers agreement we kept in contact and I was regularly informed of my sons concerning behavior at school. This was the way it was until the teacher took a suggestion of how to avoid a problem very personally. The teacher took things so personal that at their request there will no longer be communication regarding my son unless it is very serious. I would like to connect with my sons teacher without drama. Shouldn’t it be about teaching well and not about personal feelings.
Tag:Posted: February 17th, 2007 under School Related, Public behavior by Pamela.
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Comment from Claire
Time: February 27, 2007, 10:35 am
My son’s 4th grade teacher became sensitive when I spoke to her about implicating techniques we use at home in the classroom. She told me that she was just calling to keep me in the loop about his poor behaviors, and I was just interested in how she responded to poor behaviors. I realized that we were focused on different outcomes; she thought the answer to poor behavior in her classroom was to fix the child, whereas I was convinced that the answer was to fix the child’s environment.
Current teaching models do not involve teachers assuming responsibility for what occurs in their classroom. Instead children are placed on administration level, leading to unproductive discussions between all parties; the most detrimental being those initially between the teacher and the student. The only resolution can be careful parent teacher dialogue that involves practice not personality, when a teacher becomes offended the objective must be restated since it is the welfare of the child that should take precedence not personality.
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