Every teacher understands the challenge of the Parent/Teacher Communication paradigm. In an effort to keep parents informed of their child’s educational progress, teachers spend an enormous portion of their work day performing “secretarial” duties including:
- Phone call after phone call.
- Voicemail after voicemail.
- Note after note.
Until direct contact is made, the teacher is left unsure of whether the parent has received the information they felt necessary to communicate. When the child comes to class not having completed a homework assignment, who is responsible? The teacher gives the child a failing grade and the parents often complain that they were uninformed.
The Teacher Communication Suite was developed by Robert McCourtney, CEO to extract teachers from the “endless loop” of attempting to establish contact with parents regarding the progress of their child. Using the TCS technology platform, when teachers make any change to their grade book, parents can instantly and automatically be kept in constant communication via Email, text messaging, paging, and Voice Over Internet Protocol (VoiP). Positive contact and communication are verified.
TCS software maintains an archive of all communications sent to the home including the addressee, the mode of communication, date, time, and subject matter. Parents are kept informed of all issues affecting their child’s performance and teachers are relieved of the tedious and time consuming aspects of parental communication.
The next time a parent complains, “I didn’t know my child was failing” or “How could I have known that a homework assignment was due?”, you will simply click on the child’s record in the TCS system and reveal the date, time, and means of the parental notification. If challenged, with the click of a mouse ,you can immediately re-send the archived communication to the parent while you are speaking.
Parent/Teacher conferences become fact-focused. Parental finger pointing about not being notified is eliminated. With TCS, parents and teachers establish an automated, seamless, and verifiable communication link. Accountability is now established both in the classroom and in the home. Parental involvement improves because the parent knows they are “in the loop.” The teacher has more time to do what they want to do…….teach!
Most important, the child will have the support, both in the classroom and in the home, to improve their academic performance.
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