The home - school connection

Children have two really important worlds: the home and the school. We know that parents and teachers play a critical role in both their children’s academic achievement and their children’s socioemotional development. When parents and teachers work together, everyone benefits.

 

Importance of Family-School Partnerships:

v  Synergy: working together

v  To know children’s context

v  Learning continuous outside of the class

v  Showing and knowing: developing memory

v  Updating – informing

v  Parents are partners

v  Research based

 

Family involvement in schooling

It is important to focus on how families and schools can work together to improve outcomes for students and teacher practices have to encourage and guide such involvement.

 

 

 

This is a take – home letter that I created as an example of a good way to let the family know about what their children are doing at school. In this case I have done the shape of a dolphin because the children of my classroom are doing a project about this animal.