This MS PowerPoint presentation shows the importance of teacher relationships to students, parents and other teachers and how it impacts upon students performance.

1. Developing Positive Relationships with
Parents

2. The Internet Report presented by the National Education
Association (2012) stated that “when schools, teachers and
parents work together to support learning, children tend to
do better in school, stay in school longer and like school
more.”
Developing Positive Relationships with
Parents

3. The Internet Report presented by the Michigan Department of
Education (2002) stated the following:
• Family participation in education was twice as predictive of
students’ academic success as family socioeconomic status.
Some of the more intensive programs had effects that were 10
times greater than other factors.
• The more intensely parents are involved, the more beneficial
the achievement effects.
Developing Positive Relationships with
Parents

4. • The more parents participate in schooling, in a sustained way,
at every level -- in advocacy, decision-making and oversight
roles, as fundraisers and boosters, as volunteers and
paraprofessionals, and as home teachers -- the better for
student achievement.
Developing Positive Relationships with
Parents

5. Practical ways the teacher can develop positive
relationship with students

6. • Dooley (2013) stated the following about improving teacher
student relationships.
• In order to start the school off, teachers need to develop into
effective managers. When being an effective manager in the
classroom, research has shown when a teacher uses
commonsense plans, it can lead to the prevention of discipline
problems between teacher and student (Slavin 2003. pp.378-
379).
Practical ways the teacher can develop positive
relationship with students

7. • Teacher's perceptions of the students can have a negative
effect on them if they focus on inadequacies rather than
potentials. Teachers who question student potentials can
discourage academic performance (Ornstein, Levine 2006.
p.337).
Practical ways the teacher can develop positive
relationship with students

8. Practical ways the teacher can develop positive
relationship with parents

9. The Michigan Department of Education (2002) referred to
Epstein’s framework of parental involvement in their research.
They are as follows:
PARENTING: Help all families establish home environments to
support children as students.
COMMUNICATING: Design effective forms of school-to-home
and home-to-school communications about school programs
and children's progress.
VOLUNTEERING: Recruit and organize parent help and
support.
Practical ways the teacher can develop positive
relationship with students

10. • LEARNING AT HOME: Provide information and ideas to
families about how to help students at home with homework
and other curriculum-related activities, decisions, and
planning.
• DECISION MAKING: Include parents in school decisions,
developing parent leaders and representatives. Active
PTA/PTO or other parent organizations
Practical ways the teacher can develop positive
relationship with students

11. Practical ways the teacher can develop positive
relationship with teachers

12. Practical ways the teacher can develop positive
relationship with teachers
• Staff Writers ( online discussion, June 25,
2015) have identified the following ways
teachers can connect more with their
colleagues.
• Teach and learn from each other.
• Collaborate on lesson plans.
• Create a personal learning community.

13. • Schedule weekly get togethers.
• Work together to solve problems.
• Become a teacher leader.
• Adopt a team mentality.
• Make time for chatting.
• Don’t skip the cafeteria
Practical ways the teacher can develop positive
relationship with students

14. References
• National Education Association
– Retrieved April 30, 2012 from
– http://www.nea.org/home/51796.htm
– Michigan Department of Education
• Retrieved March 2002, from
• http://www.bing.com/search?
q=research+stating+the+importance+of+teacher+parent
+relationship&qs=n&pq=research+stating+the+importa
nce+of+teacher+parent+relationship&sc=0-35&sp=-
1&sk=&cvid=d537927df54e4605bfc2bb6c7341064c&fi
rst=29&FORM=PORE

15. • Applied Social Psychology (2013). Improving Student
Teacher Relationships.
– Retrieved May 31 2015, from
– http://www.personal.psu.edu/bfr3/blogs/asp/2013/03/improving-
Staff Writers. (2012, June 25). Best Colleges Online.com.
25 Ways Teachers Can Connect More With Their
Colleagues. Retrieved May 31, 2015 from
http://www.bestcollegesonline.com/blog/2012/06/25/25-
ways-teachers-can-connect-more-with-their-colleagues/
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