1a: Better together
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Objective
In this section, learners will:
- Express the significance of parent/teacher relationships on student outcomes.
Resource Choices
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⭐1 - Family Engagement and Student Success: What the Research Says
⭐2 - Parent-Teacher Relationships and the Effect on Student Success
⭐4 - TEDx: Building Relationships Between Parents and Teachers
⭐5 - Parent Involvement and Students' Academic Achievement
Resource Responses
From the resource(s) you read or watched, what is the significance of parent/teacher relationships on student outcomes? Read your peers' responses and add your own.
👩🏾💼 Strong parent/teacher relationships can help narrow the achievement gap when teachers communicate high student expectations to parents and parents share these expectations. article
👩🏽🏫 Building relationships with parents can help teachers discover effective supports for particular students and create consistency in those supports between home and school. article
👨🏼💼 Parent/teacher relationships matter even in adolescent learners and impact their academic, emotional, social, and behavioral outcomes. article
Your Resource Response
From the resource you read or watched, what is the significance of parent/teacher relationships on student outcomes? Edit to include your response.
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Moving On
Parental engagement is one of the most evidence-based, cost effective, readily available ways to significantly increase student outcomes and relationships between parents and teachers are shown to be an effective means of engaging parents. learn more here
Once you have a grasp on the significance of parent/teacher relationships, we will examine 1b: The Purpose of Communication