| Show Parents How to Help Their Children Learn at Home | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Share tutoring strategies with parents to foster a partnership between school and home! This is a hands-on workshop with creative, practical ideas. You will learn how to work with parents to help them become actively and positively involved in their children's learning. You'll discover how to share tutoring strategies that enhance children's learning in reading, writing, math science, spelling, and social studies. You will also have a chance to work with other participants to share favorite strategies, to devise new ones that fit your curriculum goals, and to plan a family involvement program that addresses the needs of your community (pre-K-9). | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Kids get excited about learning, with a variety of learning games, puzzles and activites. Families find out how to use everyday materials to promote learning. Parents learn how to make their home a hands-on learning environment. Kids get the extra help they need, as parents become partners with teachers. |
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| how to organize and focus your family involvement program general guidelines and specific tutoring strategies to offer parents simple learning games parents can make activities to increase learning at home to help parents motivate children to learn ways parents can avoid the dreaded "homework wars" |
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| a huge leader's manual in a convenient 3-ring binder, with dozens of strategies for parents; plans for parent meetings; plus handouts and transparency master a book entitled Help Your Child Read and Succeed: A Parents' Guide a certificate of participation and a tote bag for all your materials a chart correlating parent-child reading activities with components of "scientifically based" reading instruction |
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| Videos in both Spanish and English, including "Parents as Tutors," will be on display at the workshop, as well as other materials parent educators may wish to purchase. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| "I strongly recommend this workshop to to other educators working with adult ESL students and their school-age children." Vicki Roberts, CBET/Adult ESL Facilitator Long Beach,CA |
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| "The workshop was fun, informative, and workable in real-life situations. I especially liked the games and inexpensive learning tools." Pat Staggs, 4-H Coordinator, Jonesboro,LA |
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| "I encourage parents to attend-it is a wonderful learning experience." Araceli Michel, Parent Anaheim,CA |
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| "I have never before attended a workshop where I have carried away more usable materials and information." Kathleen Johnson, Parent Coordinator Gering NE |
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| "This workshops provided me with enough ideas to last a lifetime!" Renza Leich, District Parent Involvement Facilitator, Indianapolis, IN |
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| "I liked the best that the workshops was cost-effective and had useful activities. The handouts are well planned. The hands-on activities are do-able." Nanci Denamen, Coordinator, Adult Literacy, Parenting, & America Reads, New Port Richey,FL |
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