Happy parents are engaged parents
Parents, today, place quite a lot of importance to their child’s education. In the current scenario, it is imperative for the parents to be a part of their school life. It is safe to say that happy parents are the parents who stay engaged and informed regarding what is happening in their child’s school life and activities.
What is parental engagement?
The term parental engagement refers to the activities that parents undertake to smoothen and strengthen their children’s’ school and life. The activities may vary from making sure the children are prepared to go to school, attend parents’ teacher meetings and are informed about happenings in the school.
Why should parents engage?
Parents are the first teachers of a child and understand their children better, their needs, their requirements, and what will work for their child. When they collaborate with the teachers at school, both of them can work together to help the children in forming a solid foundation to grow upon, both at home and school. Parent’s engagement helps children.
- Grow self-esteem and motivation
- have better attendance
- have fewer behavioral issues
- Get better grades and better chance at knowledge since they attend school properly.
The parents and teachers get to build a stronger relationship, one of trust and confidence. Also, teachers feel good about their job and gain better confidence in them.
There are a few third party apps that help connecting the teachers and the parents, parents to the school. One such app by Mongrov has outnumbered all such expectations every parent have with an app and has been meticulously designed to create easy parental engagement in their children’s school life and allows the school and teachers to update the parents on all that is happening within the school on daily basis. The app provides notifications to the parents on whatsapp messaging and if any parent is not using the internet, it also updates a parent about the child’s performance through SMS facility. Such apps provide win — win situation for everyone by enabling easy communication between the school and the parents. To know more about this marvelous app that connects the school and parent! Call now!