3. School and Home

In a good school-home collaboration, the school and the parents have clearly defned roles, respect each other, share knowledge, and work together with a common interest in their professional, emotional, and social development. To build a healthy collaboration, teachers must consider parents as partners, who they need to work well with to best support and stimulate the students well-being. This means that the teachers show confdence that all parents can contribute and be a positive resource, they too can communicate with and keep misunderstandings or quarrels away. A strong school-home collaboration gives the students’ better-learning conditions and deprives teachers of burdens that shut down empathy. There is a strong tradition of cooperation between school and home in Danish schools. The School Act states that parents play a central role in students’ schooling, learning, and development. The collaboration may concern the individual student, or it may focus on entire classes. Therefore, the collaboration is characterized by several diferent activities and areas of cooperation, such as dialogue with the school, parent meetings, conversations between school and home, joint exercises, and ongoing dialogue with teachers. 
 
There are some areas a teacher must consider when a well-functioning partnership between school and home is to function optimally