Providing social and emotional learning support is one of the 6 strategies for parent engagement. While learning at home during COVID-19, parents were asked to tune in to their child’s wellbeing – to open up communication about the pandemic and to monitor their stress levels. By continuing to share this information on a regular basis …
Social distancing measures have put enormous pressure on teachers, parents and students to adapt to a new online learning environment, with greater dependency on parents to facilitate classes at home. While this format may not be sustainable for most families in the long run, it does shine a light on how we can better engage …
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In this time of learning at home, parent engagement in their child’s learning has never been more important and schools are doing a great job of getting what students would normally be doing in school online for families to access. However, in these uncertain times, teachers operating in online learning environments and parents finding themselves …
What can we realistically expect from teachers and parents while #learning at home? Read More »
We have heard we have entered unprecedented times. Where parents by default may become responsible for not only early childhood education and care but teachers in their homes. Homeschooling without any professional development for them as teachers. I want to reassure you that you will not be alone teachers will be there to help. Parents …
Homeschooling you can’t do everything- 6 important things to focus on Read More »
1. Check your own assumptions and beliefs. We all have an idea of what teaching is like and an opinion of what should be done – we all went to school and were taught by teachers weren’t we? These experiences can have been good and not so good but for most of us they were …
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Every parent wants the best for their child. Everyone would like to do more but it seems over whelming and with so little time available. It is comforting to know then that there are six things you can do to really assist your child this year with their schooling. These have been proven by different …
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