As most successes are, the education of a student is a team effort. It takes dedication from teachers, from parents, and from the students themselves. Everyone has an important role to play.
- A student has to buy into the program and commit him or herself to putting in the work. A student also has to assume responsibility for his or her own actions and education. Without buying into the educational system, a student can’t really grow. Similarly, if a student is genuinely interested in learning but is unwilling to put in the work, he or she will struggle to reach his or her potential.
- Teachers need to make it easy for students to commit to learning by making the experience rewarding, interesting, and inspiring.
- Parents need to lay the foundation for their children to be open and receptive to education, and support them to grow into good, responsible people. While a teacher can educate the student on facts, figures, handwriting, literature, and everything else under the sun, parents are best suited to teach their children how to be good. If the parents do their job, their child arrives at school eager to learn, understanding the importance of education.
If any one of these parts in the triangle fails, the whole thing falls apart. So, it’s up to all three parties to ensure the best chance of success. But while students may see and communicate with both their teachers and their parents on a daily basis, unfortunately the link between parents and teachers is usually not so strong. Sure, there are parent-teacher conferences, but it’s often not enough.
At COOLSIS, with our school information systems, we do our best to bridge the gap and strengthen these connections to make everyone’s job easier. By making it simple for teachers and parents to communicate, and allow parents access to information about their child’s daily school experience, parents are now more involved and can finally get a clear answer to that simple question: “How is my child doing?”
When parents are a part of the communication process, they can become the leaders of the triangle and ensure that they can better align what happens at home and what happens at school. It helps create a feedback system when the parent knows what’s going on. It helps them address the question, “Are they practicing what I teach them at home?”
With that information, there’s no limit to what everyone can achieve. Our school information systems allow parents to be more supportive, teachers to connect more easily with parents, and students to have the much-needed support they need to reach for the stars.
