{"id":3958,"date":"2016-09-20T03:23:42","date_gmt":"2016-09-20T03:23:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/americanprepschool.com\/?page_id=3958"},"modified":"2016-10-22T11:13:50","modified_gmt":"2016-10-22T11:13:50","slug":"parent-teacher-cooperation","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/americanprepschool.com\/?page_id=3958","title":{"rendered":"Parent Teacher Cooperation"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Joining hands together<\/span><\/h1>\n<div id=\"attachment_4766\" style=\"width: 970px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4766\" class=\"wp-image-4766 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/americanprepschool.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/hands-1004134_960_720.jpg\" alt=\"Joining hands\" width=\"960\" height=\"637\" srcset=\"https:\/\/americanprepschool.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/hands-1004134_960_720.jpg 960w, https:\/\/americanprepschool.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/hands-1004134_960_720-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/americanprepschool.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/hands-1004134_960_720-768x510.jpg 768w, https:\/\/americanprepschool.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/hands-1004134_960_720-500x332.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-4766\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cooperation<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Cooperation between parents and teachers is a matter of high priority at American Prep International School. We believe that successful educational outcomes can only be achieved if parents and teachers join hands and support one another. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>The key concept in parent\/teacher cooperation is communication.<\/strong> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Parents should communicate regularly with the school and the school should communicate with the parents. With this in mind the APIS has put in place a number of processes:<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">1. \u00a0Parent-Teacher conferences<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul style=\"list-style-type: square;\">\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Conferences are held with the parents of all children in kindergarten through grade 9 at the end of the first and third quarter.\u00a0 <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Parents may request additional conferences with a teacher at any time throughout the semester.\u00a0 <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Please contact the teacher via e-mail, or by calling the school office to request and arrange a mutually convenient meeting time.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>2. Report Cards<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<ul style=\"list-style-type: square;\">\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">American Prep International School runs on a quarterly system in which student\u2019s grades are collected and recorded four times a year. <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Student progress and achievement are measured by daily marks, tests, class participation, and teacher observation.\u00a0 <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Progress is recorded on the <em>OpenSis <\/em>school database) and may be viewed by parents after certain cut-off dates as announced by the school. \u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Parents are asked to personally collect report cards from the school at the\u00a0end of each quarter.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>3. Academic alerts\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Teachers may initiate personal contact with parents and send a <strong>written academic alert<\/strong> as soon as a student is:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0failing a course or<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0receiving a \u201cD\u201d in a course or<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0beginning to work below his\/her ability<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">For middle and high school students who are struggling in a course, an <strong>academic alert<\/strong>\u00a0may be sent to parents at the halfway point of each quarter.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Infographic<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The following infographic gives a summary view of the official communication channels between the school and the parents.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4911\" style=\"width: 811px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4911\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4911\" src=\"https:\/\/americanprepschool.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Communication-with-parets.jpg\" alt=\"Communication channels with parents\" width=\"801\" height=\"678\" srcset=\"https:\/\/americanprepschool.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Communication-with-parets.jpg 801w, https:\/\/americanprepschool.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Communication-with-parets-300x254.jpg 300w, https:\/\/americanprepschool.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Communication-with-parets-768x650.jpg 768w, https:\/\/americanprepschool.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Communication-with-parets-500x423.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 801px) 100vw, 801px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-4911\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">How school communicates with parents<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<h2 style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Cooperation between school and parent<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Cooperation between the school and the parents are much more than the good communication that has been summarized in the infographic above. Cooperation is such a multi-facetted concept that it merits a separate page by itself:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Read this Blog article for a<a href=\"https:\/\/americanprepschool.com\/2016\/09\/27\/how-to-cooperate-with-the-school\/\" target=\"_blank\"> specific list of ways to cooperate better with our school<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<div id=\"attachment_4822\" style=\"width: 212px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4822\" class=\"wp-image-4822\" src=\"https:\/\/americanprepschool.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Avatar.jpeg\" alt=\"End of Page\" width=\"202\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/americanprepschool.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Avatar.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/americanprepschool.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Avatar-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/americanprepschool.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Avatar-180x180.jpeg 180w, https:\/\/americanprepschool.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Avatar-200x200.jpeg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 202px) 100vw, 202px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-4822\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">End of Page<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joining hands together Cooperation between parents and teachers is a matter of high priority at American Prep International School. We believe that successful educational outcomes can only be achieved if parents and teachers join hands and support one another. The key concept in parent\/teacher cooperation is communication. Parents should communicate regularly with the school and <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/americanprepschool.com\/?page_id=3958\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3958","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/americanprepschool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/americanprepschool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/americanprepschool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americanprepschool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americanprepschool.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/americanprepschool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3958\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/americanprepschool.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}