We are interested to deep the communication between primary school teachers and families as a strategy to improve the students achievement and their motivation to learning activities.
This is quick and dirty; use a phone app to set reminders that self announce and contain student task assignments, due dates, and links to background and helper information for the parents and students. Use the same technology too provide Phonics training to parents who would like to teach their children to read before they enter kindergarten or to teach basic numeracy skills before the child enters kindergarten. Classroom teachers, who will benefit from having the children of parents who've effectively used these digital tools, will find that their teaching effectiveness and efficiency will increase. The cost of this approach is constantly falling as app production efficiencies are being realized and the effectiveness of persuasion technology is increasing due to captology research findings. ( http://captology.stanford.edu/resources ). As important is the teacher's use of video chat in a way that permits them to engage the parents of their students and build trust and confidence between themselves and the parents. Again, the falling cost of communications hardware and apps tends to encourage the use of technology to employ research based pedagogy that has been demonstrated to facilitate academic performance objectives.
You can try Social Media such as Facebook and highlight students' achievements to parents as well as include the parents in school activities and highlight these on the page. Students, parents, and teachers would be proud of the recognition and be motivated to build their relationships further. The attached is an example of the potential of social media by the teacher to engage students that can extended to parents.
Many thanks,
Debra
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