Big Ideas and Questions
This section includes the key ideas that underpin the topic in the module. It also includes questions that support an inquiry stance about teacher-parent relationships; encourages independent and collaborative reflection; and provides a springboard for independent or collaborative professional reflection about the module’s focus.
Big Ideas
- Taking time to get to know students and their parents and guardians benefits everyone, especially students.
- Creating and nurturing effective partnerships and relationships between home and school lessens the likelihood of misunderstandings taking root or conflicts erupting.
- Surfacing or exploring parents’ and students’ ideas, beliefs and assumptions about school can help teachers and educators bridge a potential perceptual divide about education and public schooling.
Questions
- As teachers, what are some effective ways to get to know students and parents well?
- Which strategies are most effective for promoting positive, healthy relationships with parents and guardians?
- How might we frame questions to help uncover parents’ and guardians’ beliefs and assumptions about formal education?
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