In pre-primary school, boys and girls are separated from their families and start spending their time among other boys and girls from groups of their own age accompanied with teachers. However, the family is the basis of life and therefore the cooperation between each child and their parents is essential for an effective early childhood education. Everything that happens within families, all circumstances that have to do with the familiar life of the children, also has an effect in the classroom. Therefore, establishing cooperation patterns with the families of each child is essential to provide a good quality education to the pupils.

Achieving a strong partnership focused on the development and learning of the children is not easy. It is a reality that, in so many cases, it is difficult to motivate, especially bringing families closer. However, this is not an excuse, it has to be used as a motivation and starting point to achieve full and active cooperation.

Mutual understanding and frequent communication will help on ensuring cooperation between teachers and families. All pre-primary schools should make a great effort to establish good cooperation between these two agents, since this contributes to the improvement of educational quality, since, as we have already pointed out, education depends not only on the school, but also on the social and familiar environment.

                       Taberner Perales, E., 2016

Nowadays, many centers have already started internalizing these aspects and elaborating strategies to promote the participation of families in the classroom, establishing, as we have described in previous sections, different levels of participation:

http://www.familyschool.org.au/files/7313/7955/4814/parent-engagement-in-childrens-education.pdf