Extractions: ISSUE: Increased involvement of parents and families often is cited as one of the most important ways to improve public schools 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. To effect change, parents must find time to participate in their children's education while schools must provide the supports necessary for them to be involved. The resulting partnerships between parents and teachers will increase student achievement and promote better cooperation between home and school. Together these efforts will connect families and schools to help children succeed in school and in their future. Joe D'Amico, co-host of NCREL's
Parent And Family Programs We encourage you to get involved and develop your own relationship with theuniversity. 1) Discussion and tips for parents of college students http://masonfamily.gmu.edu/getinvolved.htm
Extractions: Several opportunities are available for family involvement across George Mason University with Admissions, Alumni Affairs, and Orientation offices. We encourage you to get involved and develop your own relationship with the university. If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact us at 703-993-2475 or via email at families@gmu.edu Below are some of the ways in which you can become involved on campus:
Extractions: A r c h i v e d I n f o r m a t i o n Partnership for Family Involvement in Education Children who read at home with their parents perform better in school. Show your kids how much you value reading by keeping good books, magazine, and newspapers in the house. Let them see you read. Take them on trips to the library and encourage them to get library cards. Let children read to you, and talk about the books. What was the book about? Why did a character act that way? What will he or she do next? Look for other ways to teach children the magic of language, words, and stories. Tell stories to your children about their families and their culture. Point out words to children wherever you go to the grocery, to the pharmacy, to the gas station. Encourage your children to write notes to grandparents and other relatives. Academic achievement drops sharply for children who watch more than 10 hours of television a week, or an average of more than two hours a day. Parents can limit the amount of viewing and help children select educational programs. Parents can also watch and discuss shows with their kids. This will help children understand how stories are structured.
NEA: National Education Association Home Page Learning Reading Teaching Kids by Educating parents It s truly a winwinsituation. How to Get parents involved. According to the National Center http://www.nea.org/neatoday/0203/reading.html
Extractions: Select below to see your state affiliate website: -select state- AL AK AR AZ CA CO CT DE FL GA HI IA ID IL IN KS KY LA MA MD ME MI MN MO MS MT NC ND NE NH NJ NM NV NY OH OK OR PA RI SC SD TN TX UT VA VT WA WI WV WY by Diane Weaver Dunne, Education World Read about how schools across the nation in urban, rural, and suburban areas are breaking down barriers with parents and their communities by making the first day of school an exciting holiday with special activities that include everyone! Typically, on the first day of school, parents drop off their children at the bus stop or the school playground. Maybe they get the kids as far as the classroom door. Then the school doors close and the parents leave. If they're lucky, the school will welcome them back a month or two later for a school-wide open house. Terry Ehrich thought there must be a better way to begin the school year a way that might welcome parents, get them involved, and keep them involved. Ehrich thought the first day of school should be more like the Fourth of July but in this case, a celebration of education. First Day Foundation FIRST DAY PROGRAM IMPROVES PARENT INVOLVEMENT During a recent interview with Education World, Ehrich didn't mention the President's Service Award he received in 1999. But he did mention the reward he gets knowing that his idea has helped increase parental involvement in nearly all the schools that hold some kind of First Day program. Educators who start the year by inviting parents to participate in First Day activities report substantial increases in parental involvement during the year, Ehrich said.
Getting The Most Out Of Inservice Workshops Am I willing to change what I teach and/or how I teach it? Am I getting theresults I d hoped for in terms of student achievement? http://teacher.scholastic.com/products/instructor/inservice.htm
Extractions: Think about professional development and you probably think of the inservice you've grown tired of: Hired "experts" talk at you for an hour about the latest teaching methods, then send you on your way with only your notes and a few handouts. And with little or no follow-up, you probably never put these methods to work in your classroom. The good news? It doesn't have to be that way. Across the country, the lecture-style inservice is being replaced by hands-on workshops that arm teachers with skills they're motivated to put into action. Better yet, teachers are having a greater say in deciding which inservices come to their schools. To help you choose quality inservice â and leave the workshops of old behind â we offer you the following guide to picking an inservice that will work for you.
Health Promoting Schools Home - Getting Involved You are in; Family and community home getting involved There are many waysin which you, as a parent or carer, can get involved in promoting the http://www.healthpromotingschools.co.uk/familyandcommunity/getinvolved.asp
Extractions: Health Promoting Schools Find other resources 5-14 curriculum A Curriculum for Excellence Assessment Citizenship Curriculum flexibility Early years education Enterprise in education Financial education Gaelic medium education Heads Together online community Health promoting schools ICT in education Inclusive education Literacy Masterclass online community Modern foreign languages National Qualifications Numeracy Parentzone Scottish Schools Digital Network (SSDN) Scottish Schools Online SETT - The Scottish Learning Festival Whole school issues Health Promoting Schools Practitioners ... Children Content There are many ways in which you, as a parent or carer, can get involved in promoting the health and well-being of your children in partnership with the school. Discuss with the school how you can: be a role model for your child's health and well-being spend regular time communicating with your child, discussing and sharing feelings, hopes and aspirations show your child that you value his or her education and the work of the school express high but realistic expectations of your child in relation to learning and healthy living provide a quiet place and time at home for your child to do homework, take an interest in their work and help them as appropriate
Latino Parent Involvement Report Though research has shown the importance of parent involvement for student achievement The role of parents is to provide nurturance and to teach morals, http://www.buildassets.org/products/latinoparentreport/latinoparentrept.htm
Eye On Education/Parent Perspectives But parent involvement doesn t only mean being in the school. You can be aninvolved parent parents assert their rights by getting on these councils. http://www.eyeoneducation.tv/parents/quarles.html
Extractions: Rochelle Quarles is a mother of three elementary school children who attend Boston public schools. She is actively involved in her children's education and serves as Vice President of the Boston Parent Advisory Council in Roxbury. This interview was conducted by Basic Black's Donnette Madrey, who spoke with Ms. Quarles at a recent school fair in Boston. Q: What are some of your top concerns for your children in Boston public schools? Q: What do you say to parents who don't get involved in their children's education? As a parent organizer working in the high school, I can say that parent involvement there is really minimal. I notice a lot of parents don't even see their kids because they have to work two jobs. So their main concern is housing. Many parents have inadequate housing. A lot of parents have low paying jobs. A lot of parents don't speak very good English. So they have a lot of walls blocking them. It's not that they don't want to be involved, but rather that they don't know how to be involved. But parent involvement doesn't only mean being in the school. You can be an involved parent outside of the school. You can make phone calls to help the school, you can write letters, you can do other things. So when someone tells me that a parent doesn't want to be involved, the first thing I would say is, What did you do to get that parent involved? Did you just call them up and ask them to attend something during the day that they probably couldn't attend because they work? Did you ask that parent for other ways they could help the school? Those are the questions I would ask.
American School Board Journal: September 2001 Cover Story 2 As Jeana Preston, head of the parent involvement program for San Diego CitySchools, puts it, getting parents there is a challenge, says Johnston. http://www.asbj.com/2001/09/0901coverstory2.html
Extractions: These days, everyone seems to have an opinion on how parents should be raising their children. Parenting manuals multiply on the bookstore and library shelves, talk shows feature parenting experts, specialized magazines target the parents of kids of different ages. Despite this jumble of information, schools report that more and more children arrive in their classrooms defiant, aggressive, disruptive, or depressed. It's probably not surprising, then, that educators and school leaders increasingly see the need to dispense parenting advice of their own. Blame it on the societal problem of your choice: the breakdown of the nuclear family, the rise of postmodernism, the weakening of community ties, the prevalence of poverty, mobility, or divorce. But whatever the reason, many families are struggling with a lack of support, knowledge, and time. Most large urban or suburban school districts (and quite a few smaller ones) attempt to fill that void with various kinds of education for parents. Programs range from occasional classes and workshops to semester-long sessions and support groups, as well as visits into the home and even maternity wards. The programs vary, but the notion behind parent education is the same: The best and perhaps only way to help students is to first help their parents.
SBCSS Community Coalition - What It's All About getting involved. While the heart of public education is what takes place teachers teaching students, we recognize that an informed and involved public http://www.sbcss.k12.ca.us/par_comm/community/getinv.htm
Extractions: Getting Involved While the heart of public education is what takes place in the classroom with teachers teaching students, we recognize that an informed and involved public benefits schools and the community alike. While the Community Coalition effort has extended a hand to include all community members as part of the educational process, we also know that key to any child's success is the support he/she receives not only from teachers and staff, but from parents and family members at home. Here's what you can do to help or get involved in Early Literacy Spread reading activities out over the day. For example, read the newspaper out loud in the morning or read a recipe together when preparing a meal. Read favorite books over and over again. Have books readily available—"set-up" places in your home with reading and writing materials. Take advantage of everyday tasks as literacy tools by writing simple notes and letters to each other or preparing the grocery list together. Make regular visits to your public library. Get library cards for your children and let them select their own books.
Parent/Family Involvement Illinois PTA Parent and Family Involvement PTA,parent involvement,legislation to protect This presentation is a comprehensive look at how getting parents and http://www.illinoispta.org/Page3.html
Extractions: National Family Week November 20-26, is National Family Week . Children should look back at their time spent at home, and remember the positive experiences with their, ever so important, family. For most of us, our families come first, before other important things in our life. But does our behavior reflect that belief? Although most people say that nothing is more important than their families, day-to-day behavior can tell another story. As Jennifer James, a former columnist, once pointed out, When were moving fast, sometimes the relationships we care most about get short shrift. We think those we love will forgive us if we spend most of our time at other things. But a child may grow up before we notice that hours of being too busy have extended into days, weeks, months and years. This is a bit of what happened to the boy who recently divorced his mother. She always thought there would be time to get back together, But she was wrong. James reminds us that There are ways to give time and interest to children, family and friends even when every minute seems loaded. For example, you can turn off the TV or put down the newspaper when a loved one is talking to you. The simple gesture of looking directly at someone and stopping what you're doing for a few minutes while they're talking, says they're important to you.
Search Advanced Search Think Classroom Think Career Think The National Coalition for Parent Involvement in Education is a great point for information of all kinds about getting families involved in schools. http://www.thinkport.org/familycommunity/interstitials/getting_involved.tp
Extractions: Not a member? Register Now! Thinkport Tools: My Calendar My Web Site Member Directory Member Messaging ... MPT Daily Schedule You are here: HOME INTERSTITIALS Getting Involved At School Helping out at your child's school isn't as time-consuming as you might think, either. There are many different ways to lend a helping hand, no matter what your schedule may be. If you aren't able to volunteer your time during the day, for example, you might be able to help out after work by putting together classroom materials. Here are some things to consider about becoming involved: The most important first step to becoming involved is joining your school's PTA. It's the best way to find out what's going on in your child's school, and where your help is needed most. You don't have to wait for an invitation. Offering your help at your next PTA meeting or parent-teacher conference will certainly be appreciated.
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. If we accept that as teachers we need to invite, inform, and coach parents in ways to become active participants in the development of their child's literacy and language skill development, then we must begin to think about how to go about putting this objective into practice. In this article, I would like to focus on this important area of the home-school connection: how to reach out to parents to read with their children. I will outline the rationale behind this approach, and provide two classroom routines to help develop the connection. In the second article - The home-school connection 2 - I will provide three more classroom routines.
Teachers Network How To Adjust Your Teaching Styles to Students Learning Styles getting ParentsInvolved in Your Program Cynthia Carbone Ward http://www.teachersnetwork.org/NTNY/nychelp/workfami.htm
Extractions: NYC Helpline: How to Work with Students' Families How To: Adjust Your Teaching Styles to Students' Learning Styles Allison Demas's articles on working with students' families. How to Show Parents How to Have a "Book Talk" How to Have a Culminating Event How to Show Parents How to Use Reading Strategies How to Show a Non-English Speaking Parent How to Help an English Speaking Child ... New Teachers New York Helpline
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Extractions: Home Topics About News ... Contents Parents' Views on Improving Parental Involvement in Children's Education 4.1 Types of parental involvement There are many different ways in which parents are involved in the education of their children ranging from active participation in formal bodies such as the School Board and the PTA, to less formal involvement in school events, to coming along to watch a school concert or sport event, to activities that parents conduct in the home in support of learning. Distinctions can be made between informal, semi-formal and formal involvement, active and less active, and home based and school based involvement. There are logical reasons as to why parents are or are not involved in certain types of activity. These are affected both by personal or local circumstances impacting on a family, and certain barriers to involvement that parents perceive. The details of factors affecting involvement are discussed in chapter seven. The following table summarises these different types of involvement. It should be noted that the table is offered as a rough illustration of the range of types of parental involvement. The shaded area indicates the types of active commitment that most parents
Getting An Education In Parent Involvement | PTO Today getting an Education in Parent Involvement. Consider setting up your ownparent involvement education program. Any school or school district can put http://www.ptotoday.com/0803parented.html
Extractions: By Emily Graham A few years ago Liz Gardners worst nightmare was speaking into a microphone at a PTO meeting. The mother of two overcame her fear of speaking to groups, and this summer she presented her plan to raise parental involvement in academics to the Kentucky commissioner of education. Kathy Staub in Manchester, N.H., has a similar story. By her own admission, she was once an ordinary, mild-mannered PTA president. Now shes speaking out at school board meetings and motivating parents across the city to get involved in school. Both women filled traditional parental roles at their childrens schools for years, but wanted to do more. They learned how through parental involvement education programs. These range from monthly workshops to intense yearlong programs, all with an aim to engage parents in academics. As schools across the country work to implement reforms under the No Child Left Behind Act, even more organizations are forming to recruit parents in the effort. Liz Gardner has always been active in her childrens school, but in the past she usually helped with fundraisers and went to meetings. This year shes analyzing the schools standardized test scores, pinpointing weaknesses, and showing parents how to help their children improve.
Teachers.Net Meeting - Job Hunting Tips What opportunities are there for parent involvement? What programs does the schoolhave to teach kids about drugs, alcohol, etc..? how does the school http://teachers.net/archive/job_hunting3.html
Extractions: Dear Reader, Following is advice received by a teacher who was interviewed by a panel of 5 people for a teaching position but was not hired. She initiated a post-interview discussion with one of the interviewers. When Lauri asked what she might have done better during the interview, the interviewer (an assistant principal) offered the tips included in the message copied below. We thank Lauri for sharing this helpful information! Kathleen First of all, [apparently] the main reason I wasn't hired was the fact that I verbalized that I was VERY nervous ... she told me, "NEVER verbalize your nervousness, that's expected, especially in front of a panel of five! ...and we understand that people are nervous." Apparently, that shows them a lack of self-confidence.... Secondly, "Because you were nervous, your voice softened too much, and it gave us the impression that you had a quiet disposition. We were under the impression that you would be like that in the classroom, and might have been 'eaten alive' by the kids." She stated, in my next interview, to be MORE assertive and to use a strong voice ... as if I were in front of a class ... nice and strong. The bottom line here was the fact that she could tell that I was very eager to teach and that I truly cared about the outcome of my future students!
