SCHOOL-PARENTS RELATIONSHIP ON THE WAY TO PARTNERSHIP

Reading the literature and professional experience shows that the issue of reciprocal relations between school and the parents is a vague and conflictual subject therefore, it creates motivation for investigation. Researchers and different approaches offer models for forging healthy relationships between school staff and parents to serve school academic and social climate. Studies show that children whose parents are involved in school achieve higher academic achievement than others and that parental involvement has many positive aspects based on values such as respect, responsibility, and dialogue. The contribution of our article is by his optimistic approach in presenting the relationships between school and the parents and the observation that all schools are at any stage on the pyramid of reciprocal relations. Through a developmental process that includes learning of all partners, it is possible to move from stage to stage and reach a kind of relationship that can be defined as an optimal partnership between parents and educators. The article presents a four-step application model for optimal educational partnership, in hope that it can serve schools that see the interaction between the school and the parents as a primary goal itself. The model is built as a four-stage pyramid and the stages rely on principles, values and actions. (C) 2018 Published by Future Academy www.FutureAcademy.org.UK