Engaging Parents for Student Success

Course Description
Goals and Objectives

Course 5844

We've all heard the phrase "it takes a village." This course will help teachers increase students' "villages" by engaging families, parents, students, and the community to ensure student success. Discover pro-engagement approaches, ways to foster participation, and learn how to establish positive and constructive relationships with the parents of your students all while improving and focusing on parent-teacher communication.

What you will learn:

Use provided prompts specific to family engagement in education to describe assumptions and insights of practitioners, researchers and self, including how the information relates to professional educational practice.
Design and analyze classroom tools that will assist parents in understanding the importance of their role in the education of their student, personalize opportunities for engagement and increase communication.
Prepare an activity to collaborate with families or colleagues on conferences or home visits.
Develop an implementation plan to create new opportunities for family engagement.
Develop resources for families or colleagues to challenge the status quo related to family engagement.
Document, in writing, strengths and assets of families.

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Graduate-Level Continuing Education Course for Teachers

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Engaging Parents for Student Success

Course 5844

What you will learn:

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