Encourage Your Child to Express Her Feelings by Sending a Greeting Card to Her Teacher
Greeting cards are one of the simplest yet most meaningful ways to communicate appreciation, respect and, of course, well wishes. They are much more personal than an email and more lasting than a phone call. Greeting cards become treasured reminders of relationships, interactions and special moments between the student and his or family and the individual teacher.
Any way that you can build a positive interaction with your child's school and his or her teacher will, believe it or not, improve your child's academic performance. By having your child send a greeting card to his or her teacher, you will be showing the teacher that you really care that they care for your child. This will reinforce good vibes between the teacher and the child.
Teachers sending positive message to their students, even by writing "well done" on some work, has been proven to have an overall beneficial effect on relationships between schools and students. Research published in the British Journal of Educational Technology found that affirming that the relationships were valued can improve the quality of all relationships within the school system.
When individual motivational messages are received by students, they do better overall at school. They have more confidence and get better results. Equally, when a teacher is shown consideration and appreciation, especially when this is communicated in writing, the overall quality of the educational experience will improve.
The question of trust between teach and parents has been also been examined. An American study published in the US Journal of School Psychology in 2000, found that as students progressed through the school system there was a lower level of trust.
One of the recommendations that the researchers had was to improve the quality of communication between home and school as the children moved through the school system. Sending positive messages to the teacher is one way to help to build this level of trust from day one in kindergarten. It can easily be carried through to graduation to facilitate increasing the trust between the school and parents.
In situations where the teacher only sees parents when there is a problem it is difficult to develop a strong, positive, working relationship. The research is clear that several factors of the parent-teacher relationship contribute to the educational performance of the student. Of these, the quality of parent-teacher interactions and the frequency of these interactions are described as critical predictors of positive student outcomes. Researchers were able to determine these indicators in a longitudinal study published in 1999 in the American Journal Of Community Psychology.
A well constructed message in a greeting card is a physical expression of a desire to overcome any difficulties in the relationship between the child and the teacher. Sending a greeting card will have unexpected consequences. These include not only a more effective learning experience for your child, but also to the confidence that he or she will carry into the future.
Any way that you can build a positive interaction with your child's school and his or her teacher will, believe it or not, improve your child's academic performance. By having your child send a greeting card to his or her teacher, you will be showing the teacher that you really care that they care for your child. This will reinforce good vibes between the teacher and the child.
Teachers sending positive message to their students, even by writing "well done" on some work, has been proven to have an overall beneficial effect on relationships between schools and students. Research published in the British Journal of Educational Technology found that affirming that the relationships were valued can improve the quality of all relationships within the school system.
When individual motivational messages are received by students, they do better overall at school. They have more confidence and get better results. Equally, when a teacher is shown consideration and appreciation, especially when this is communicated in writing, the overall quality of the educational experience will improve.
The question of trust between teach and parents has been also been examined. An American study published in the US Journal of School Psychology in 2000, found that as students progressed through the school system there was a lower level of trust.
One of the recommendations that the researchers had was to improve the quality of communication between home and school as the children moved through the school system. Sending positive messages to the teacher is one way to help to build this level of trust from day one in kindergarten. It can easily be carried through to graduation to facilitate increasing the trust between the school and parents.
In situations where the teacher only sees parents when there is a problem it is difficult to develop a strong, positive, working relationship. The research is clear that several factors of the parent-teacher relationship contribute to the educational performance of the student. Of these, the quality of parent-teacher interactions and the frequency of these interactions are described as critical predictors of positive student outcomes. Researchers were able to determine these indicators in a longitudinal study published in 1999 in the American Journal Of Community Psychology.
A well constructed message in a greeting card is a physical expression of a desire to overcome any difficulties in the relationship between the child and the teacher. Sending a greeting card will have unexpected consequences. These include not only a more effective learning experience for your child, but also to the confidence that he or she will carry into the future.
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Find an easy way for your children to make personal greeting cards for their teachers by visiting Melinda's site Mango Salute. Like to read more articles about celebrating the art of greeting, global cultures, religions and justice check out Mango Salute's magazine Salute the Day