Promt 5- Dewey

When you are a teacher it is very important to be able to have a relationship with the parents as it is with your students. when you have a problem with a child you want to talk to there parent and inform them of what is going on. As i go to my kindergarten classroom every Friday morning i see the teacher collecting the children's folders that have their home work in them and paper that parents have signed or papers that need to be given to the office. As i was sitting there one morning i saw a little girl coming in late with her mother at hand. as they both walked into the classroom together the mother went over to the teacher and asked if she could speak to her in the hall.As the teacher agreed of course to go and talk to her. once the teacher came back into the room i asked the teacher if that happens a lot with parents of the children in the class if they come and want to talk to her. she answered me with "not all of them but few do". Then the teacher told me that most of them either call the school and speak to them or they write notes to the teacher that end up going back and fourth between the teacher and parents. My teacher began to tell me that most don't because they are lazy and don't want to come in and speak about how there child is behaving. When the teacher told me that i couldn't believe that she said that and that that can really happen. If i had a child that was in a classroom and wasn't behaving or the teacher wanted to speak to me about my son or daughter i would want to go in and see what was going on. I was shocked when she told me that. To think that a kindergarten parent doesn't want to hear or deal with the problems they are given a teacher now are just going to turn into a bigger problem in the future if it isn't fix early enough. I can understand that not all of the students parents might speak English but they can still make an effort to try and communicate with the teacher. My teacher explained to me that they parents of the children with ADHD and ADD are the ones that don't make an effort to talk to me if i send a note home or call. She began to explain to me that they are the ones that should want to hear what she has to say. She also began to explain to me that she does try to make an effort to communicate with the parents but she can only do so much in order for them to respond back and want to talk to her.
While reading an article in class i remember reading Dewey's article and in his article he talks about the relationships with social groups meaning that people with common interests or likes that people may have. As i was in my classroom during one if my visits i began to notice that they children begin to go into clusters within the classroom that there friends are in. One group i saw was of the children who like to play puzzles. i found that to be neat and interesting because all of the children that like doing puzzles were on the rug doing puzzles as all of the other students were doing other things with there friends. If a teacher wants her students to interact with everyone then it is his or her job to be able to do that in their classroom. It is the teachers job to communicate with the students and try with the parents. Teachers could also try to interact the parents into their classroom as well if they wanted to.