Parents Teachers Meeting!

Learning is a complex phenomenon. A child faces difficulties in learning. A child faces mental stress and several identified and unidentified challenges. Ramagya believes that holistic development of a child depends upon the hard work of the student, parent, and teacher. The integrated efforts of these three stakeholders give the best learning outcomes.

Parent Teacher Meeting (PTM) bridges the gap among these three pillars of a student’s life. PTM opens a communication channel where parents become partners. Active participation of a parent brings a massive change in child’s academic performance.

Ramagya knows that it is necessary to share responsibility and accountability with parents for the holistic development of a child. A parent is directly responsible for a child’s progress at home and at school. In fact, it is necessary to develop a strong bridge between parent and educator. Parent-teacher meeting is an opportunity to exchange observations of about a child with each other. Sharing daily experiences and observations provides a wider prospect for parent and teacher to plan, prepare and execute planning for better learning outcomes of a child. Teachers discuss and share the overall personality of a child with the parents i.e. his/her behaviour, manner, habit, attitude, learning styles, relation to self and society, etc. PTM is a platform to address the needs of a child.

• A great opportunity for parents and teachers to develop a healthy and strong relationship for the holistic development of a child. This platform helps parents and teachers to develop a rapport and build a strong relationship to understand and determine the needs of a child. Developing an integrated child demands to combine efforts from different stakeholders.
• Great opportunity to open two-way communication for the welfare of the child. Two-way communication has great value for the proper development of a child. Parents, as well as teachers, share their efforts on a common platform for the welfare of a child. Parents work at home on the feedback and observation shared by the teacher at school. The teachers modify their way of handling students. The teacher keeps a vigilant eye on the mental and physical progress of a child. Parents and teachers follow each other after school hours also to ensure whether their effort is going on the right track or not.
• Great platform for parents and teachers to share insights and information for the holistic development of a child. Parents and teachers share each other’s minute observations of a child i.e. how does a child behave with friends, his confidence level in the class, his self-esteem, self-awareness, decision-making skill, interest in learning, special interest, hobbies, and classroom performance. A child is like soft clay. Parents and teachers try to grow a lotus under different favourable and unfavourable circumstances. Teachers work on parent’s feedback at school and Parents work on teacher’s feedback at home.
• Great platform for an educator to know a child’s weakest and strongest areas from a parent’s observation. Parents and teachers identify weak areas and try hard to improve those points. It is not a platform to make a complaint against one another. Both stakeholders should not deviate from a child’s concern. Proper education of a child is our prime concern. The personalities of parents and teachers hold no value here. Our ego has no great value if we could not be a wise parent or teacher. Our prime concern is to shape a child into an integrated personality. PTM provides this big opportunity to work for the child.

• Ramagya understands that today parents follow busy schedules and it is not always feasible for them to be available on the weekends and hence the PTMs at Ramagya are held on Saturdays.
• The students are informed about the PTMs a week prior and are given a consent form to be signed by their parents that helps the teachers in ensuring the attendees. If the parents face any issues in coming on a particular date then they are given a day and time post the PTM to visit school and meet the teacher to discuss the progress of their ward.

On the day of the PTM, parents meet the class teacher and all the subject teachers for a detailed report of their ward that includes :

• Students' punctuality, discipline, class behaviour, co-curricular activities.
• The academic performance is shared in-depth.
• Areas of strength and improvement are shared with parents
• Subject teachers provide detailed insights about the performance of the child in the subject.

Teachers also share the catechism that they’ll be using for the improvement of the students with the parents in order to maintain transparency. Thereafter, the class teacher gets the PTM registers signed and filled by the parents where the comments related to the child’s subject-wise progress, behaviour and punctuality are written and the suggestions from the parents are requested.

• The parents are then guided to meet the Baal Saathee team for discussing the overall development of their child that concerns the mental and physical wellbeing of a child.

Not only academics and the emotional well being of a Ramagyan are taken care of but also the Sports activities are taken up with utmost seriousness. During the PTM, Sports coaches are always onboard for projecting knowledge on the sports fitness of a child :

• They enlighten the parents by telling about all the achievements of their ward in the sort of interest.
• They discuss the ways of improvement (if any) required at the child‘s end.
• They also embrace any suggestion given by the parents for better training of their ward.

The parents who fail to attend the PTMs due to unavoidable circumstances are called up and given a scheduled day and time to visit the school. On this day they undergo the same process of meeting the class teacher, subject teachers and the Baal Saathee team.

And, if because of any unavoidable circumstances, the parents fail to show up even after the second call, then the class teacher along with a Baal Saathee team member and a sports coach, may visit the student’s house.

Ramagya takes up the PTMs very seriously, as we all know that holistic development of our young minds can only take place when there is a joint effort of the parents and teachers.