Validating Parental Strategies as a Bridge to Learning
Edition: 2
Copyright: 2014
Pages: 118
Edition: 2
Copyright: 2014
Pages: 118
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At the beginning of each academic school year, educators recommend strategies parents can use to help their children with academic school success: such as parents reading to their children or helping children with their homework.
How can working-class, low-income parents who are not literate, or have limited literacy and English skills, or who must work long hours, six days a week, use these suggestions?
Validating Parental Strategies as a Bridge to Learning features ideas and suggestions based on research gleaned from college graduates who were the first ones in their families to graduate from high school, as well as attend and graduate from college.
Validating Parental Strategies as a Bridge to Learning by Irene Calzada Cota:
- Is perfect for parents! The guide explains practical activities how parents with limited formal education including literacy and English skills, can utilize their surroundings and use non-traditional strategies, or modified traditional strategies, to create a home environment that supports academic school success.
- Is a great teacher resource! Teachers can encourage parents to use these indigenous strategies and insights to make a positive impact on their children's academic school success.
- Includes a story about an English learner who will be the first one in her family to graduate from high school and attend college. The story incorporates the insights and strategies that were consistently noted by interviewees as helping to achieve academic school success.
- Includes questions that teachers can use to help parents reflect about how they support their children's learning and to generate discussions between teachers and parents in a workshop setting.
Acknowledgements
Introduction to the Guidebook
Parent Guidebook Format
About the Author
Chapter 1 Introduction to the Story Class Valedictorian
Class Valedictorian: The Story Begins
Introduction to the Story Class Valedictorian
Questions for Reflection and Discussion between
Parents and Teachers
Chapter 2 Ways Parents Can Set the Stage at Home for Learning
Class Valedictorian: Maria Begins to Reflect and Remember
Questions for Reflection and Discussion between Teachers and Parents
Suggested Strategies and Insights and Quotes to Share and Discuss with Parents
Chapter 3 Ways Parents Can Partner with Teachers
Class Valedictorian: Ways Maria's Parents Partnered with Teachers
Questions for Reflection and Discussion between Teachers and Parents
Suggestions and Insights and Quotes to Share and Discuss with Parents
Chapter 4 Ways Parents Can Develop Their Children's Listening and Speaking Skills, Part A
Class Valedictorian: Ways Maria's Parents Helped Develop Her Listening and Speaking Skills
Questions for Reflection and Discussion between Teachers and Parents
Suggestions and Insights and Quotes to Share and Discuss with Parents
Chapter 5 Ways Parents Can Develop Their Children's Listening and Speaking Skills, Part B
Class Valedictorian: Recalling Other Ways Maria's Parents Helped Develop Her Listening and Speaking Skills
Questions for Reflection and Discussion between Teachers and Parents
Suggestions and Insights and Quotes to Share and Discuss with Parents
Chapter 6 How Parents Can Support Both Their Children's Native and Second Languages
Class Valedictorian: Language(s) Used at Home and Maria's School Success
Questions for Reflection and Discussion between Teachers and Parents
Suggestions and Insights and Quotes to Share and Discuss with Parents
Chapter 7 Ways for Parents to Develop Their Children's Reading Skills
Class Valedictorian: Ways Maria's Parents Fostered Reading at Home
Questions for Reflection and Discussion between Teachers and Parents
Suggestions and Insights and Quotes to Share and Discuss with Parents
Her passion has always been to successfully meet the learning needs of English learners as well parent education. This guidebook is based on research she conducted that focused on interviewing participants who were the first ones in their families to graduate from both high school and an institution of higher learning. The participants' responses revealed various ways in which parents, in their own way, can utilize their surroundings to support their children's education and most important collaborate with teachers in educating children.