Parent Communication
Parents are a critical part of a child's education. I strive to be a member of a team. While I am enthusiastic about the many ways we can now communicate with families, such as e-mail, blogs, and websites, I am sensitive to the needs and preferences of families. There are still families with no regular internet access or no interest in electronic communications. Also, many conversations are better done face-to-face or over the phone rather than through asynchronous means.
Below are examples of paper communications from my time as a preschool teacher. I was a member of a teacher team, so the letters reflect our entire team's language preferences.
Below are examples of paper communications from my time as a preschool teacher. I was a member of a teacher team, so the letters reflect our entire team's language preferences.
This is one introduction letter that was given to parents before school. This is very detailed; another letter, with less information, was also presented for those parents who did not want or need this much specificity.
This letter addresses some concerns we were having with lunches packed by parents. "Lunch Bunch" for two-year-olds was an experiment at the time, and we were trying to find a good balance for student independence and teacher control. Since "Lunch Bunch" was primarily about socialization (it was only an hour and 15 minutes long), we were finding it difficult to open all the lunch items in each child's lunch before other children tired of waiting and left the lunch area. Few of the children spent time in our classroom except for their lunch once a week, so we did not know most of the parents well.