PTA is a voice on behalf of all children to bring positive changes in schools and education, joining PTA gives you an opportunity to make difference.
What is PTA?
“A Parents, Teachers Association (PTA) is a formal organization composed of parents, teachers and staff that is intended to facilitate parental participation in a school. ” PTA.org
PTA is affiliated to schools, with an objective to promote parental involvement in the educational success of children. It is the powerful voice for the well-being of children, it gives parents a platform to make a difference in their child’s school by raising issues that affect our children and matter the most for better future. It facilitates a working relationship between school management, administrators, teachers and parents.
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You can create groups of your school and invite parents to the group to share views and foster discussions related to school(s).
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PTA can also be viewed as a partnership between parents and educators who strive to enhance student learning and enrich the lives of students within the school.
Parents Teachers Association (PTA) can provide powerful mediating function, providing a neutral forum for resolving conflicts that sometimes occur in the school. In Indian private school system setting, PTA can advocate some of the most common and issues that surfaced in recent years
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History of PTA
PTA has become an integral part of schools around the world. The history of PTA goes back to over 100 years. It was founded in 1897 in the United States of America as the National Congress of Mothers by Alice McLellan Birney and Phoebe Apperson Hearst.
The founders dreamt of changing parents, children, and families. Now it has become a powerful voice for all children in countries across the world.
Schools Under Ambit of PTA
All unaided government schools, permanently unaided institutions, schools affiliated with various organisations must form PTA, it includes -state education boards, ICSE, CBSE, IB etc.
Why Join PTA?
The number reason to join PTA is to benefit your child, but by doing so, you help your school too.
Today, the issues that affect our children extend beyond their individual schools. With the rampant commercialization of education, it is imperative to have an effective and capable PTA representation in the schools across India. To address this issue most of the states in India have brought a law to direct schools to form PTA.
By joining and an active representation in PTA parents can collectively influence the decision that affects children not only at their school but also throughout the city, state and across the nation.
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Benefits of PTA
Parents can reap long-term benefits for future of children by joining PTA in the school. It will bring positive outcome by way of discussion between school management and parents, the core issues for improvement of learning could be solved with a good working relationship between parents, teachers and principal of the school.
Get Connected: There’s no better way to catch up all that is happening at your school.
Meeting Opportunity Differently: PTA meetings are very different from Parents Teacher Meetings(PTMs) it gives you an opportunity to meet teachers, peer parents and discuss common issues concerning entire school. You can share ideas, experiences and concerns.
Effective Way to Suggest Change: Open talks gives you to speak your mind out and suggest changes in an effective way to improve the school.
Become Role Model: By involving in your child’s school, you can show him/her the important you place to education.
How to Join PTA?
Ideally, all recognized primary and secondary schools must form PTA within one month or 30 days after the commencement of the new academic year. Every parent whose child is enrolled in the school automatically becomes PTA member.
It is seen lately that school allows only those parents to be a PTA member who fills the registration form for the PTA.
PTA Working Committee: It is mandatory for school to democratically form PTA working committee within two weeks of formation of PTA, and meeting for this purpose should be served to all concerned people one week before the meeting day.
The idea to serve advance notice for meeting for election committee is to get maximum parents involved in the process of forming the executive committee.
One teacher and one parent will be part of the executive committee of each grade.
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Who should nominate themselves for Executive Committee?
The committee works towards the betterment of the school and on behalf of many hundreds or a thousand parents depending on the strength of the school. It is responsibility and trust of other parents that get one seat on the table to discuss core issues with school management, therefore, nominate yourself only if you can commit yourself towards it voluntarily and passionate about the cause.
Join PTA without fail as it gives you a chance to get involved and informed about the schools, so you understand the challenges that school faces and can become part of the solution. Contribute positively towards our children future and become a voice to ensure that issues important to school are addressed.
