{"id":4094,"date":"2016-09-27T16:41:56","date_gmt":"2016-09-27T16:41:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/americanprepschool.com\/?p=4094"},"modified":"2024-04-26T13:39:47","modified_gmt":"2024-04-26T06:09:47","slug":"how-to-cooperate-with-the-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/americanprepschool.com\/?p=4094","title":{"rendered":"How to Cooperate with the school"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n
\n
\n

\"directors-blog\"<\/span><\/h1>\n

 <\/h1>\n

15 Ways to improve cooperation <\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n

with your child’s school<\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n

Why is cooperation between parents and teachers so important?<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n
\"Parents

Parents participating in APIS Fun Day<\/p><\/div>\n

All truly great achievements in this world are the result of cooperation between people.<\/span><\/p>\n

This is especially true in the field of education where so many different individuals are involved in trying to reach one main goal. <\/span><\/p>\n

Collaboration is an “anchor” value at American Prep International.<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

Collaboration is one of the 5 cross-curricular anchor values<\/span><\/a> that the school has identified as making up  the distinctive niche curriculum of the school.<\/p>\n

At American Prep we consciously try to find and create opportunities for our students to learn this valuable life skill and to make it part of their character. One of the interesting ways in which this is done this year is by the choice of an innovative motto: “Lets move the elephant”.  The background reason for this somewhat strange motto can be found in another blog post<\/a>.<\/u><\/p>\n

Collaboration also involves parents<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

One aspect of collaboration (cooperation) that we often overlook is the fact that successful education does not only imply collaboration between teachers amongst themselves and between teachers and students. It also implies that there be collaboration between the parent\/s and the school.<\/span><\/p>\n

Teachers often ask parents to cooperate with the school, but sometimes parents don’t really know how they could best do so.<\/span>
\n The list that follows should help parents (and the school) to know what is ‘best practice’ for cooperation between the home and the school.<\/span><\/p>\n

Ways to Communicate and Cooperate with Your School<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n