Today, parents not only want to be in the know about their children's education, they demand it. This website provides 10 tips for teachers when connecting with parents on social media platforms.
In today's technological times, teachers need to have a professional and useful website to aid both students and parents. This website offers a comparative view of various website builders with teachers in mind.
Social media is quickly invading the classroom but only time will tell if for better or worse. This website examines whether social media can foster inappropriate teacher-student relationships and what to watch out for in your own classroom.
There is a fine line between a professional teacher-student relationship and an unprofessional one. This website addresses some of these Dos & Don'ts so that you can have a more positive, professional relationship with your students.
Almost all teachers worry about that first parent teacher conference. By having answers to these 20 Questions in advance though, teachers can get a jump start on the conference and ease those pre-conference jitters.
this article addresses the many pros there are too gamification, but also stresses how real interaction must be integrated which is a great goint considering the direction classrooms are going.
Although it is always safe to limit use of social media and stay leery of using it too much, especially when involved with a classroom, this website gives an overview of popular platforms that teachers can use to keep in touch with parents.
I chose this resource because it talk about six tools that help with teacher-parent communication. Being able to communicate with your students parents is a very important factor and it explains that and how to improve it. It discusses six different apps that are used in different ways and gives alternatives to the one he describes.
Common Sense Education provides a list of various tools that teachers can use to communicate with parents, whether they want to communicate via social media, use remind alerts, or start something like a class website.
This link from the National Education Association provides a lists of ways that teachers can use technology to effectively communicate with their students' parents.
This site argues for the importance of Curation in terms of higher-order thinking associated with Bloom's Taxonomy. It also offers this information in podcast form.