Teachers Should Respect Each Individual Child and Each Individual Family.

Posted by teacher on May 14, 2011

Prior to enrollment, a first sign of quality care is how a teacher or school admissions director talks to prospective parents. Pay attention to the feeling you have about a school and its teachers from day one. If it’s not a 100% good feeling, continue looking at other schools. “Don’t put your kid anywhere where you don’t have respect and trust in the educators,” says Farber.

Without being unreasonable, parents should feel their particular child’s needs are being honored. If the needs of the class as a group always supercede individual needs, this practice will tune out important requirements of some children.

“If you’re going to have an impact on the child and the family, a teacher and a school need to honor and respect where that child and family is coming from. No family is the same, nor should they be. Conversations about a child’s needs can be a waste of everyone’s time if the initial approach isn’t handled with compassion and lots of care. If there is a challenging issue, communication should always carry a tone and feeling of we’re all in this together.

“Do you believe that the teacher likes and cares for your child? Parents can usually sense when somebody likes their kid and knows their kid, even if that person is saying something that the parent doesn’t want to hear” says Farber.