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Summary Parent teacher relationship has significantimportance in building up the personality of a child
Parent - teacher meeting is the most shared way of communication and it must be made fruitful.Parent teacher relationship has significantimportance in building up the personality of a child/ student and shaping his behavior. If children are taught something contrary to what they are taught at school, it confuses them. That’s why parent teacher relationship needs to be more than just discussing the grades and scorecards.The most common and practical way of communication is holding parent teacher meetings on regular basis. The weakness to these parent teacher meetings is that mostly parents are troubled only with the grade report and not to the personality building of their child at schools. On the other hand, some teachers do not make these parent teacher meetings productive form of parent teacher communication. The priority teachers set for the children have an impact on their character building and the psychology as well. So teacher must recognize the role as spiritual guide and as guides.If a few guidelines are followed the parent teacher relationship can be strengthen and be of great help to the students. Firstly, parent teacher meetings must be arranged on regular basis and parents must introduce themselves and their child to the teacher. Parents must come prepared on parent teacher meetings. They must discuss with their children about their experience at school so that at the parent teacher meetings they can discuss all their concerns.Apart from discussing the problems, parent teacher meetings can be a platform for parents to discuss their child future . A strong parent teacher relationship allows teachers to suggest parents about the most appropriate fields of studies for their child. Regular parent teacher meetings aid in stronger parent teacher relationship and communication and their combined input to the child’s academic learning .
