The Importance Of Communication With Parents
In order to understand more about children s backgrounds, educators need to build
relationships, and open communication with their parents because they are the first
children s teacher. Having communication between the teachers and parents will help
the teachers gain knowledge about children s languages, tradition clothes, and food.
In addition, the teachers will understand more about children s development, interest,
and wants. Then, they will be able to create multicultural curriculum appropriate
children s development, interest, and needs. In addition, they will able to provide
books, and music with children languages, and materials that reflect and honor
children s diversities. There are different ways educators can communicate with
diverse families such phone call, in person, emails, parent newsletters, home visits,
school s website, conference, workshops for parents. For instance, I usually
communicate with parent daily to share about their children s progress, share
different techniques for them to help their children to learn at home, and encourage
them to talk about their concerns. Then, I have ideas to make an improvement in the
learning environment for their children. In conclusion, having communication with
parents is very important because it will help teacher ideas to create multicultural
curriculum, understand about children s backgrounds, and provide materials that
reflect children s diversity. The multicultural curriculum must be assessed regularly
for bias