Best Practices of Collaboration between Teachers and Parents to Support Child Development in Tadika Pasti Nur Islam Malaysia

Abstract

Collaboration is an important key to education budgeting in early childhood education units. Disharmonious relationships between parents and teachers, for example, teachers who express disappointment with parents, while parents express disappointment accompanied by cornering sentences to the teacher or school.  That's why this study was conducted to provide examples of good practices of collaboration between teachers and parents for child development in Tadika Pasti Nur Islam, Malaysia. The research method used in this article is qualitative research with a descriptive approach.  The data collection method is done by observation, interviews, and documentation. The analysis uses data triangulation, which is to draw conclusions from the results of data collection analysis. This research illustrates that collaborative practices carried out by parents and teachers in Tadika Pasti Nur Islam, Malaysia include parenting activities, iftar activities together, field trip activities, and school project activities with parents. The activity was carried out to strengthen the collaborative relationship between parents and schools to optimize child development stimulation carried out by schools and parents.  

1. Keywords: Collaboration, Parent and Teacher, Child Development