I Teach 1st: SESSIONS Day 4 getting parents involved in Early Literacy with Sherri Strating G13 TheGuided Reading Teaching Sequence Betty Jo Evers http://www.iteach1st.com/Sessions-Day4.htm
Extractions: session details Wednesday, July 13, 2005 Sessions with this symbol are presented by our proud conference sponsor, ETA Cuisenaire Sessions with the Make-and-Take symbol offer hands-on projects you can bring back to your classroom. CP Sessions with this symbol are offered by current classroom practitioners. Table Talk Sessions: 7:30 - 8:20 am
Birmingham MI Lacrosse Getting Involved Take this chance to teach him that officials are trying to do their best, Some parents can t get to many of their child s games or spend a lot of time http://www.birminghamlacrosse.com/get involved.html
Extractions: Buy a second lacrosse attack stick and play catch with your child. The fancy term is "bonding," but parent and child playing catch is a great way for him to develop skills, too. Go out and watch your son or daughter play. Cheer him on. Take this chance to teach him that officials are trying to do their best, but they make mistakes just like every player and coach. The three essential lacrosse-specific skills are throwing, catching and cradling the ball. To practice the three essentials, all you need is a lacrosse stick, a lacrosse ball and a wall. Just throwing the ball against the wall and attempting to catch it is one of the best drills there is.
Extractions: Acknowledgement Swanbourne Senior High School Swanbourne Senior High School is a metropolitan high school on the western coastal strip in Perth Western Australia. The school has an Academic Talented Program (ATP) with a focus on Science and Mathematics which draws gifted students from a variety of backgrounds and from many areas in Perth. The Academic Talented Program comprises three classes, one in each of Years 8, 9 and 10. The three ATP classes attend separate Science, Mathematics and Technology lessons, however, over the past two years the teachers of these subjects have collaborated in order to synchronise and integrate the content and processes being taught in the three learning areas. The major ingredient of the integration has been technology-driven projects incorporating Science and Mathematics components. Background The Academic Talented Program was introduced to the school in 1995 with a focus on Science and Mathematics.
Albuquerque Tribune Online She s cracking down on instruction, insisting teachers teach from bell to bell.But one of her biggest challenges is getting parents involved. http://web.abqtrib.com/archives/news03/111503_news_polk.shtml
Extractions: Tribune Reporter Benny Sedillo's walk through Polk Middle School every day is a hike from hopelessness to hope for something better. The struggles are clear at Polk, labeled a failing school by the state and called worse names by some neighbors. Lockers are off-limits for fear they could hide guns and drugs. Dingy metal desks scream 1960s, not 2003. Windows are scarce, graffiti an assault upon the eye. Two decades ago, Polk, 2220 Raymac Road S.W., was considered the jewel of the South Valley and won national awards. But for the last 10 years, critics say, Polk has been a place where education came to die. Now there's some hope. Benny Sedillo's family is willing to take a chance on the "new" Polk. As he ambles through the hallways, Sedillo, a seventh-grader who came to Polk this year after a year of home schooling, can see the changes - the experiment on which Polk's future rests.
Extractions: Teaching Today publishes innovative teaching tips on a weekly basis. Written with the busy teacher in mind, each tip is concise, practical and easy to implement in the classroom right away. Topics covered in Teaching Today are classroom management, career development, high stakes testing, instruction and planning, parental involvement, reading in the content areas, using technology in the classroom, and portfolio development. Teaching Today also offers free weekly downloads that correspond to the tips. Our free downloads make implementing the teaching tips even easier. Teaching Today provides educational resources for teachers looking for everyday solutions to the challenges of the classroom. This Week's Topic Getting Parents More Involved in Your School In a recent Public Agenda survey, 78% of teachers responding reported that too many parents dont know what is going on with their childs education. Most teachers report that parental participation drops greatly with each year a child attends, starting in the elementary grades. While the reasons for decreased participation vary tremendously, most teachers agree that more parental involvement would help children succeed in school. This week, we provide five ways to increase a parents interest or participation in their childs schooling. This Week's Tips
Parental Involvement, Teaching Today, Glencoe Online Teaching Today compliments the subject areas Web sites of the Glencoe Divisionat the McGrawHill getting parents More involved in Your School http://www.glencoe.com/sec/teachingtoday/tiparchive.phtml/2
Extractions: Teaching Today publishes innovative teaching tips on a weekly basis. Written with the busy teacher in mind, each tip is concise, practical and easy to implement in the classroom right away. Topics covered in Teaching Today are classroom management, career development, high stakes testing, instruction and planning, parental involvement, reading in the content areas, using technology in the classroom, and portfolio development. Teaching Today also offers free weekly downloads that correspond to the tips. Our free downloads make implementing the teaching tips even easier. Teaching Today provides educational resources for teachers looking for everyday solutions to the challenges of the classroom. Improving Communication with Parents Effective communication with parents can go a long way toward helping students achieve the goals youve set for them in school. Of course, there are a lot of parents to communicate with, so time-saving yet effective strategies are the key to making the most of your efforts. This week we provide simple ways to improve your overall effort.
Extractions: Families today take many different shapes and forms. In many instances, biological parents are not always children's primary caregivers. In this article, the words families and parents are used in the inclusive sense to refer to the group of any and all people who form the main community of caregivers to children. The first article - The home-school connection 1 - gave the rationale behind involving the parents in student learning and outlined two classroom routines that help to achieve this, namely the making of hands-on learning tools which pupils take home to show their parents and the production of an English folder to store these materials. This second article offers three more classroom routines and suggestions for further reading on this topic. As detailed before in The home-class connection 1 , a critical aspect of parental involvement is creating opportunities for parents to have firsthand, demonstrable evidence of what and how their children are doing in class. However, it's rarely possible to invite parents to the class to have them see their child's progress firsthand and to provide them with an opportunity to question and comment on their child's activities and progress.
Teaching Pre K-8: SPECIAL SECTION: Getting Parents Involved Full text of the article, SPECIAL SECTION getting parents involved from TeachingPre K8, a publication in the field of Reference Education, http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3666/is_200504/ai_n13634510
Extractions: Save a personal copy of this article and quickly find it again with Furl.net. It's free! Save it. To increase parent involvement, students kept their poetry notebooks filled with favorite poems or ones they thought parents would like. The notebooks were taken home and read with an adult. Then they were to respond to questions such as, How could you relate or connect to the poem? How did it make you feel? Did you ever feel like the poet did? Students became very involved in writing poetry without rhyme about natural beauty and also chose the theme, "My Favorite Things" to write about in free verse. They wrote, read and presented a program for their parents. A special poem was written by third grader, Cole Stengel (used with permission).
Get Parents Involved In Your Program getting parents involved in Your Program Cynthia Carbone Ward The topic, ofcourse, depends upon the unit you are currently teaching. http://www.teachersnetwork.org/ntol/howto/workfam/c15975,.htm
Extractions: Getting Parents Involved i n Your Program Cynthia Carbone Ward When a new teacher asked me if I could suggest ways that he might interest and involve parents in his 8th grade social studies curriculum, I suggested that he start with a basic weekly update to the parents. A short bulletin should let them know what interesting aspects of history are being covered, the kinds of activities the kids will be doing, and ways that parents can support the educational process at home. The bulletin might include a weekly challenge question regarding a historical character or event - preferably something colorful or amusing. Variations of all of these ideas can be applied to almost any subject. Another great way to involve parents is by requiring your students to interview them. The topic, of course, depends upon the unit you are currently teaching. If it's about immigration, have them find out about their own family roots, who made the journey to this country, and stories that have been passed along. Perhaps one of their parents IS an immigrant and still remembers life in another country and the migration here. If you are teaching about the Constitution and the founding of the nation, have kids interview their parents about their understanding of what it means to be a citizen, or their recollection of the civil rights movement. This is just the tip of the iceberg with a little creativity, you can think of a provocative line of questioning which relates to just about any topic in the curriculum.
A Youth Sports Resource - Parents & Coaches, We Can Help! Searching for help on how to teach your children Youth Sports and Sportsmanship? help you the parents, coaches and children involved in youth sports. http://www.youth-sports.com/
Extractions: Searching for help on how to teach your children Youth Sports and Sportsmanship? You've come to the right place!! You will find helpful information, advice and instructional products that will help you the parents, coaches and children involved in youth sports. Each section provides you with an in depth look at the particular topic. Sports Store Articles Youth Sports Newsletter - This FREE monthly email newsletter includes articles, fitness tips, healthy recipes, sports quotes, etc. Previous issues available for your review in the Archive section. Sign Up Now B. A. Good Sport Award Program - Sportsmanship award program Coloring Contest - Children ages 3-9 can win a cool T-Ball or Soccer T-shirt with "B. A. Good Sport" the Ambassador of Sportsmanship on the front. What's New - Check out the titles and descriptions of new books and videos for several exciting sports including Baseball, Basketball, Football, Soccer including an excellent video on motivational coaching. Need to Find Your Way Around?
Extractions: April 1999 Eliot Levine, Harvard Family Research Project This Early Childhood Digest was produced by the National Institute on Early Childhood Development and Education of the Office of Educational Research and Development in the U.S. Department of Education and is also available in Spanish Many Latino parents feel just like Lorena. They have many questions. What is parent involvement? What can I do at home to help my child learn better? How am I supposed to work with the preschools and schools in this country? Can I trust them? These are hard questions, but they are important questions. Children are more successful when their families are involved in their education. One of your roles as a parent is to make sure that your child receives the best education possible. To do this, you need to be involved! What Do Schools Want in This Country? By schools we refer to childcare, preschool, Head Start, and kindergarten. If you grew up in Latin America, the schools might have been very different. Maybe parents expected schools to do all the teaching. In the United States, families and schools are supposed to be a team. The family is the biggest influence on a child's life, and the school is the next biggest influence. Schools expect parents to get involved, both at home and at school. Parents are supposed to ask questions. Your ideas and questions are important. The relationship between the family and the school makes a big difference in how much a child can benefit from school.
How To Get Parents Involved - 9.27.2000 - New York Teacher - getting parents involved in their children s education can be frustrating at times.Faced with home and onthe-job stresses, some parents may have to http://www.nysut.org/newyorkteacher/2000-2001/000927parents.html
Extractions: NYS Math Resources Getting parents involved in their children's education can be frustrating at times. Faced with home and on-the-job stresses, some parents may have to relegate educational issues to the back burner. Other parents want to become involved, but feel they lack the skills to help their children. Veteran teachers have evolved effective strategies to help parents become full partners in their children's education. Additionally, many local unions affiliated with New York State United Teachers are committing time and resources to initiatives that improve connections to parents. With new standards and new tests altering the educational landscape, "parents have more questions than ever before," says Antonia Cortese, NYSUT first vice president. "Teachers and their unions are committed to providing the answers and support parents need to help their children learn." Accentuate the positive Mary Ann Taylor, an instructional support teacher at Karigon Elementary School in Clifton Park and an instructor in NYSUT's Effective Teaching Program, chooses to accentuate the positive. "I like to call parents with good news, rather than bad news, about their children," said Taylor, a member of the Shenendehowa Teachers Association in Saratoga County. "Just a good news phone call to say, for example, 'Johnny had a really good day at school today. He learned to count by fives.'"
Tips/Parent Involvement getting parents involved can be tricky and hard. I am currently working at aschool in the NT and parent involvement is poor. ** 1. http://www.atozteacherstuff.com/Tips/Parent_Involvement/index.shtml
Extractions: Parent provides a spiral notebook that goes back and forth from home and school daily in the child's backpack. This provides an easy way to write a note to a parent and to make sure that they know to look for it. The parent can write info to the teacher and this saves lots of time spent on phone calls. I provide a basket for the kids to place their notebooks in each morning. The students also look in the basket at the end of the day when their notebook is ready to be sent home. Encouraging and Tracking Parental Involvement
Get Parents Involved Most educators agree that parental involvement is a key ingredient in how wella student learns. getting parents into the classroom one evening a month, http://www.edutopia.org/magazine/ed1article.php?id=art_1310&issue=jun_05
Extractions: Participants ... Activities Our experience F.A.Q. Since 1998 till 2000 has been developed the project " Equal opportunities for Roma children through education " by the Open Society Foundation Romania (through its "Educational Department" - restructured in 2000 as Center Education 2000+) and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands (MATRA projects). Its implementation has been carried out through an active partnership of Center Education 2000+ (Bucharest - Romania) and the National Institute for Curriculum Development of The Netherlands. The program's aim was to provide the needed technical assistance to Roma pupils and to increase the opportunities for their integration in society by adapting the educational offer to their and their parents' needs, by setting out coherent strategies for school development, by getting parents involved in the activities and the decisional policy of the school, and by encouraging successful experiences that can be easily implemented on a larger scale. The difficulties the Roma children confront with during their school attendance have constituted the starting point for the program development, the program key-concepts being:
Extractions: Acknowledgments This booklet is the 14th in a series of "hot topic" reports produced by the Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory. These reports briefly address current educational concerns and issues as indicated by requests for information that come to the Laboratory from the Northwest region and beyond. Each booklet contains a discussion of research and literature pertinent to the issue, a sampling of how Northwest schools are addressing the issue, suggestions for adapting these ideas to schools, selected references, and contact information. One objective of the series is to foster a sense of community and connection among educators. Another is to increase awareness of current education-related themes and concerns. Each booklet gives practitioners a glimpse of how fellow educators are addressing issues, overcoming obstacles, and attaining success in certain areas. The goal of the series is to give educators current, reliable, and useful information on topics that are important to them. Other titles in the series include: Service Learning in the Northwest Region Tutoring: Strategies for Successful Learning Scheduling Alternatives: Options for Student Success Grade Configuration: Who Goes Where?
Tolerance.Org Teaching Tolerance In my year as a Teaching Tolerance research fellow and Nolan s year in theMontgomery Were there parents, teachers or students who were not involved? http://www.tolerance.org/teach/printar.jsp?p=0&ar=187&pi=ttm
How Not To Teach Math By Matthew Clavel A guest art teacher, gungho about cooperative learning, tried to teach my kids This sounds nicewho doesnt want to see parents involved with their http://www.city-journal.org/html/eon_3_7_03mc.html
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Extractions: Student attitudes improve because of greater involvement from parents. What Are the Benefits of Family Involvement? Increased involvement of parents and families often is cited as one of the most important ways to improve public schools. A variety of studies confirms that parent involvement makes an enormous impact on students' attitude, attendance, and academic achievement. Although some working and single parents may be unable to contribute to schools because of work commitments and time constraints, educators are discovering many additional ways that parents can help students and their schools. Some of these ways are dependent upon the school's desire to involve parents.
Getting Involved At Eastside Alternative School getting involved. Parental involvement is central to what Eastside Alternative Volunteer in the classroom; teach a Wednesday workshop; Help raise funds http://schools.4j.lane.edu/eastside/GetInvolved.html
Extractions: Parental involvement is central to what Eastside Alternative School is all about. There are many different ways to get involved. Eastside teachers are happy to have the help of parent volunteers who can volunteer on a regular schedule in the classroom. Contact a teacher to discuss current needs, your interests, and the time you can commit to regular classroom visits. Wednesday Workshops are short, one-hour classes taught by parents. If you would like to propose a topic for a Wednesday Workshop and/or offer to teach it, contact the Eastside office, 687-3303. Eastside parents help raise funds in several ways to support educational programs at Eastside, and help is always needed to organize fund-raising activities. Contact us at 687-3303 for information on ways you can become involved. [ More Each year, Eastside helps a homeless family obtain housing. [
