Improve Parent Engagement with Software Tools

After home, children spend a lot of their formative years in school. Teachers are among the first significant influencers in their lives after parents. It is very important that the two biggest influencers – parents and teachers – interact regularly. Healthy parent-teacher engagement is absolutely essential for the growth of a child. Communication between parents and teachers should take place smoothly and effortless. A preschool administration software with the right features can help your center improve parent-teacher engagement considerably.

How can a preschool administration software help?
Let’s look at what are the areas that a childcare software can help with:
– It can help share, monitor and organize daily tasks.
– It can organize children’s activities and development milestones.
– It can facilitate sharing photos of children’s activities and artwork.
– It can let parents and teachers chat instantly with each other or with the administrator.

iCare is one such preschool administrative software that helps teachers make a real impact on the development of children. Through the Journal feature of the software, teachers can post notes on a child’s daily activity, or make an entry about an upcoming event for parents to see. A report of all Journal activity is mailed to parents at 7.00 p.m. every day. Alternately, they can log in and check out the Journal entry anytime and from anywhere. This helps parents stay on top of their child’s programs at their own convenience.

The Photo feature of the software lets a teacher click and share pictures of a child’s artwork or any activity with parents instantly. Just click and share using any tablet or phone.
In case a teacher needs instant assistance regarding a child, she can reach out to parents or other teachers through the Chat option.

This kind of collaborative problem-solving by parents, teachers, administrators and technology can make learning fun and facilitate vital parental engagement.

Why engage parents?

Parents are the people a child trusts completely. Their involvement in a child’s learning journey is paramount. Effective communication is the key to building school-family partnerships. This will help form a strong foundation for all forms of family involvement in education. A Harvard Family Research Project’s research article by William H. Jeynes (Department of Teacher Education, College of Education, California State University at Long Beach) states, “The results of the meta-analysis indicate that parental involvement is associated with higher student achievement outcomes. These findings emerged consistently whether the outcome measures were grades, standardized test scores, or a variety of other measures, including teacher ratings.” Jeynes mentions in the article that this holds true for minority students as well.

Easy to use features, automated notifications and smart journaling of a preschool administrative software will increase participation of all stakeholders helping immensely with the development goals of a child.

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