Analysis of the Problems and Effects of Family-School Collaboration

Abstract

Family-school collaboration has received widespread attention, but it still has not improved in a kind of development progress. This article outlines the problems and effects of family-school collaboration. This paper argues that the biggest barrier to implementing a useful family-school collaboration would be the communication between parents and teachers. Parents’ and teachers’ communication ways, frequency, and influence would affect the quality of information about their children’s performance that parents can get, which will also determine parents’ satisfaction with this school. In this case, this article supposed that it is crucial to improve the significance of parents’ participation and build a closer relationship between parents and teachers so that a kind of stimulation or motivation for children to study in a better way. So some policies try to increase parents’ participation in tutoring for their children and create a new bond with teachers so that being a helper or supervisor of children.