Teacher Parent Relations

When students develop challenging behaviors, both parents and teachers must work together to deal with this challenge. Teachers face a lot of difficulties when implementing instructional strategies on students with challenging behaviors. To be successful, they need support from parents of these students and other stakeholders. There are several barriers to a positive relationship between teachers and parents of students who exhibit challenging behaviors. Lack of open communication between teachers and parents can make parents think that their children are being victimized or falsely accused of improper conduct. Students can give misleading information to parents concerning how teachers treat them causing parents to disregard the teacher’s point of view. Inadequate skills by teachers to deal with a student with challenging behaviors can escalate misunderstanding between teachers and parents of these students.

Teachers can use inappropriate language which can make students respond negatively to them. Parent’s social skills are another barrier that can hinder the positive relationship. Improper social skills on either party affect the positive correlation. Teaching parents the importance of good relationship and open communication is one of the techniques to encourage the positive relationship. Students with behavioral challenges ought to be taught positive social skills. This can help them to ease the relationship between teachers and parents by encouraging honest and open communication.

The concerned teacher and the parent of the child should be encouraged to hold regular meetings and engage in open dialogue about how the students can be helped (Lucas, 2006). The students should be made to understand that he or she is being helped and the parents should also look at the situation from this perspective.

To get an uninvolved parent more involved, you have to give him or her role in the classroom or the school. Through regular meetings as a stakeholder, the parent will appreciate some educational and behavioral progress of all students. The parents can be invited to contribute to the staff on ways student with challenging behaviors can be helped. Parents who are involved in their children educational and behavioral progress can also be encouraged to educate and open the minds of uninvolved parents. The Biblical perspective for session 1 will influence my interaction with parents by giving me new insights on how ignorance can cause people to be misled. I will try to explain to parents that irrespective of their stance on their children, they should not lose hope on better results since once they understood that they were ignorant on some issues, they will be redeemed and be able to provide through guidance to their children and support teachers.

Reference
Lucas, B. (2006). Involving parents in schools. London: Network Continuum Education.