Support families to help their children learn at home
Suggestion for implementing the strategy ‘Establishing reciprocal relationships with parents and families to support learning’
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Support learning at home
Support learning at home
Strategies for helping families support their children’s learning at home.
- Meet face-to-face to model particular strategies or make a video to model a particular strategy or approach.
- Create opportunities where students can draw on the expertise and experience of their family and work together on a project.
- Maintain a class blog or a weekly email to families, where you share the class focus and encourage them to share resources and ideas.
- Avoid setting up situations where you are encouraging families to supervise homework. Parents are not always comfortable helping their child with academic studies.
Explain ways to help
Explain ways to help
Project coordinators for Mutukaroa – A home-school learning partnership meet with parents at home, work, or school to explain assessments, provide resources, and discuss how they can support their child’s learning.
Involve family in school processes
Involve family in school processes
Explore perspectives on the involvement of parents and communities in schooling.
Support bilingual learning
Support bilingual learning
Mele, a Tongan teacher aide, shares her experience of attitudes and beliefs around the value of using and learning first languages at home.
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