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Promoting good home and school relationship Unit 9 Presented by Lill James MA Clinical Community Psychology Objectives • At the end of this unit, participants will be able to : 1. Become acquainted with the different community agencies, resources and family education programmes in the school community. 2. Identify and apply activities for involving parents and community members for the young child Impactful notes • Knowledge of the agencies in the community which provide resources and opportunities for education of parents and families will greatly assist in decision making for choosing activities which will involve family and community members and help in providing creative paths for child development. Scope • Home -school -community partnerships can be fostered in a variety of ways. For a creative teacher the community can be a rich source of expertise, financial support, and volunteer services. • These partnerships can be developed with community organizations, individual families, and local businesses or corporations. • When families, community groups, business and schools band together to support learning, young people achieve more in school, stay in school longer, and enjoy the experience more. • The resulting partnerships can serve the school with support and services, and the school can serve the community by providing an educated population of students who are mathematically and scientifically literate. Family Involvement Programs • Family -involvement programs are an effective way to facilitate partnerships between the home and the school . • Programs developed by school personnel can provide a forum for parents and children to experience learning in an atmosphere quite different from the usual classroom setting . • These programs may happen anywhere outside the classroom. For example: school library, cafeteria, or multi -purpose room. Evening programs may take place outside the school in other community buildings Family Involvement Programs • Evening sessions can be designed to get the family involved in the topics covered at school. • For instance: a topic on living things and non - living things may be reinforced through an activity such as a family nature walk. This helps parents to review/refresh the content and allows students to consolidate. Community Involvement • Community support is an extension of family - involvement programs. • Community awareness fosters a positive belief about the school and the effectiveness of the teachers . • The positive community attitude toward education often manifests itself in ways that are very important to the school community, such as the school budgets, and the public's feeling of pride in the institution. Community Involvement • Home -school -community partnerships come in a variety of styles. (PTA extension, volunteers, Academic resource) • Such partnerships build understanding of the education process and are beneficial to the students we serve. • There is an African proverb that states that it takes a whole village to raise a child. • These partnerships allow the whole village to help educate our children. Promoting the relationship Expand Your Vision of School to Include Community • The physical and human resources in the school to enhance learning, as well as a means of curriculum delivery. • Educators shouldn't be the only ones contributing.The community should be creating questions, puzzles, quotes, mind benders, trivia, philosophical and ethical challenges, thought provoking videos, "graffiti walls," brainstorming spaces, and play areas . Promoting the relationship Reach Out to All Stakeholders • Get the perspective of the students, villagers, parents and community members. • One of the best ways to connect and create an authentic bond is to go to the people who matter most, and meet them on their own turf . • Get your teachers, some local businesses on board and go and knock on people's doors, visit local businesses and senior homes and talk with them. • Try the same approach with groups of students. This time let the students communicate what they hope and wish for their school and encourage them to ask for mentoring and support . • Share the school’s vision and dreams for enhanced community -school partnerships, ask people what matters to them, ask them how they might help, and show them your passion. • Deliver them an open invitation to reconnect, collaborate and share their experience, skills and time to make a difference. Promoting the relationship Create a Community Resource Map • A visual representation of your community and the various skills people have to offer is a super way to understand what community resources are available. • If you build one, also point out the materials people can supply at cost or for free, the time they can invest in projects, and how they can connect to curriculum, and classroom activities. • Include the networks they can utilize to raise awareness of the needs of local children and families, and always promote and foster resource -sharing and collaboration . • Use libraries to advocate for school -community partnerships and student learning. Libraries are important hubs and can provide meaningful connection points outside the school gates. Promoting the relationship Connect with Curriculum • Much of what we learn as children and adults happens outside the classroom through real world experiences and from our peers, mentors or on the job. • Kids today are asking far to often for relevance in what they are learning. "Why am I learning this? I'll never use this!" is a response far too often heard form the mouths of young people today. • Let's not forget the largely untapped wealth of experience and knowledge that resides with retires, grandparents and millions of socially isolated senior citizens in aged care facilities. Promoting the relationship A Design Challenge for the Community • School projects to the community to complete and be seen to be interested in the outcome. • Things such as redesigning classrooms, creating a community garden, creating an open and shared learning space, designing a course, events such as student’s forums which help with changing the way students participate in decision making , mentorship programs. Promoting the relationship Encourage Community Use of School Facilities • Often the school buildings sit empty after the end of the normal school day. Encouraging non - profit community groups to use the facilities is not only good use of resources but also provides opportunities for the school to get involved in community projects Castle is a small agricultural community with a grocery store, Baptiste church, a waterfall, a pasture, a stream, a pre - school, medical station and an elderly home. Trigger is a community with huge plots of land covered with shrubs bordered by the coast. The population is youthful. Abondonded structures are seen on the strip leading to the jetty. Jobs are scarce, illegal activity threating and the multipurpose center underutilized.
