Abstract
The article under review deals with parent-teacher-student partnership issues in educational institutions, namely schools in modern society. This issue is very topical today, because there is a gap between school teachers and parents, whose common aim is to impact to students’ well-being and education progress. The aim of this research article is to define the key terms related to the topic, to analyze in-depth the barriers and factors that challenge the effective partnership, and to suggest possible improvement ways and techniques to solve the study problem. Moreover, the authors characterize several key aspects of parental involvement in school activities.
The research methods are descriptive, analytical and pragmatic analysis. The research methodology is analytical research review of existed ideas on the described topic, and professional and personal viewpoints on the research problem. The article is fully practical and the authors give practical recommendations and pragmatic viewpoints to improve the involvement between school-teachers-parents-students.
The results of the research show that the research topic is still relevant, it needs exact solutions and recommendations to improve school-family partnership. And the authors suggest a number of key activities to involve parents to school, analyze the experiences of developed countries, and give practical recommendations to improve school-family partnership in Kazakhstan. The practical implication of the research is the list of self-observation checklist for school teachers to work well with parents and children which are suggested by the authors of the article. The authors have concluded that the world experience on school-family partnership states the positive impact of parental involvement in school life, everyone benefits from it, and well-being of children can be improved.