Calling Home
Danielson’s Framework: Domain 2d: Managing Student Behaviors &
4c: Communicating with Families
Positive phone calls home to parents create not only a great home-school connection, but also can have a positive impact on behavior in your classroom Edutopia Blogger Elena Aguilar in her post The Power of the Positive Phone Call Home shares how these calls home impacted her Elementary and Middle School classrooms. Want to start but don’t know where to begin? Check out these 5 tips for starting.
5 Tips for Calling Home :
- Be specific
Having something specific to share with parents lets them know that you really do know and care about their child.
- Be on the look out for good behaviors
For those students that may be challenging, be looking for things that you can call about, and do so right away!
- Keep Track
Keep a list of who you call to make sure you are contacting everyone at some point during the semester, quarter, or trimester.
- Create a plan
Create a schedule or goal for yourself, it might be 3 calls home a week or one call home per day-whatever you feel is manageable.
- Just do it!
Sometimes those calls home get pushed to the backburner for a lot of reasons. Don’t let that happen! Once you start making
these positive calls home, and hearing that you made a parent’s
day, you’ll remember the time put into it is well worth it.
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