12+Seamless+Communication

Summary:

Communication is the Key to change. This chapter describes how to change the "student is always right and the teacher is always wrong" attitude. By setting up a shared document for logging parent contacts and missing assignments, other teachers in the building will know if the student is missing assignments in other classes and whether or not other teachers are contacting parents. The student no longer has the ability to lie about missing assignments, teachers, etc. WITHOUT this, parents can be in the defense of the student and pretend that your class is the ONLY one with troubles. However, with the stronger communication you know who else has been in contact with the parents and which classes the student is also struggling with. It also allows for coaches, administrators, and club leaders to know exactly how each student is performing in the classroom. Strong communication aids in student discipline, and hopefully overall student success.

It also adds, we need to have missing assignments visible to peers, and that we should email/call parents while the student is in the room. Together, it weakens their excuses to not do the work.

Our school:

It means we could have a better system for checking missing assignments during advisory!!! It should help bring a more "united front" to our school. In this time of technology, it seems like a feasible idea to have a missing assignments report for the staff to be able to look at. Included could be information, such as attendance and computer status (check-in/check-out).