EQ: What is the most successful way to teach a kindergarten classroom?
Answer: Fostering a great relationship with parents.
This might sound like an odd answer to my essential question but through out various observations and research I have seen that a parent/teacher relationship is critical for the students learning. Most of this I have seen in service learning, usually a child needs help in homework and some are too shy to speak up and ask for and then depend on their parents to aid them through that. Some parents are oblivious to the issue and some are constantly there aiding their kids. Fostering a great relationship with parents, in my opinion, help increase the attention the child needs and therefore the child had all the help he/she needs. To successfully teach a kindergarten classroom, the student should understand the lesson. It's on the teacher to deliver the lesson and help a much as possible but during school. After the kids go home it is no longer on the teacher but on the parents on helping their children on anything they need help on. Like I said before some parents have busy lives ad sometimes don't realize that even kindergartens struggle with homework and by promoting a relationship with parents as a teacher there is tht confidence to tell them to always check up on their kids homework and to always ask them if they need help or to communicate any problems the teacher missed.
Sources: Service learning and article #26 "Clearinghouse on Early Education and Parenting" by Carol R. Keyes.
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