Positive Student Engagement

As educators our primary focus is working with students while teaching curriculum, guiding them through daily stressor and mentoring them to become successful within their education. As we are teaching our students we should be reminded the key to their success is not solely on what they learn in school, but the environment they return to once they leave school. Many students do not have a strong support system at home which could affect their ability to learn. As a result, teachers may use strategies to improve a student’s knowledge in a subject, but they may still fall below standards as they may not have a support system at home to help encourage their academic success.
In all schools it is mandatory to conduct open houses and parent-teacher conference, but there are some parents who do not believe it is necessary to attend those parent engagement events and/or their work schedule hinder them of attending. As a teacher, opening up a line of communication with all parents to promote a positive attitude of their student’s education success may encourage the parents to attend any events in the school regardless of their opinions. In addition working with the parents whom time …show more content…
Therefore in addition of participating in the open house and parent-teacher conference, as a teacher, I will provide my students a monthly calendar of upcoming assignments, events, and miscellaneous information, have an open communication policy for parents to contact me via email, phone and/or text message (through a communication system provided by the school) and vice versa, a quarterly meeting for parents to attend, a quarterly newsletter, and a website for students to use for additional