No. I certainly don’t mean that you need to befriend every teacher your child will have, nor have lengthy conversations with him or her. I don’t mean either that you need to know every detail about his or her personal life.

What I mean is keep an attentive eye for the strengths of your child’s teacher.

There are lots of information that can be gathered just through the quick interaction with him or her – may it be in direct contact, via a message book or how your child talks about him or her.

What you want to pay attention to are those resources, character traits and strengths, that makes that particular teacher different from others.

Focusing on those will not only help your child see his teacher as resourceful, but will also allow for better communication with him or her should you encounter an issue in your child’s school pathway.