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In Italy we never go home visiting our students, our pupils private life remains a unknown to us  when they leave the classroom walls unless there are social or economical problems which prompt the school staff to intervene to help the students along with their families.

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I do really agree with Eszter and Maria when they assert that teachers and parents should work together for a lifelong learning. It is not enough to check homework or read a book at home, parents should partecipate in activities with teachers at school in order to keep the flame of knowledge burning bright.

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I have been teaching 18 years now and generally I did not have problems with my students' parents, neverthless I have experienced some troubles with parents who do not accept that their children have a troublesome attitude during classes and disturb the ordinary progression of the lesson. They blame it on the teacher when their kids are not attentive and do not follow the classroom rules.

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Challenges of involving parents in the classroom.

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Challenges of involving parents in the classroom.

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Having parents in the classroom doesn't quite happen frequently, I once had a father, who is actually a chef in a restaurant, to explain some of the techniques used in the kitchen to prepare professional food and all the kids responded in a positive way, the expert was very humble and open-hearted which made his intervention successful and productive.

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Creating opportunities for parents involved in educational activities.

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Creating opportunities for parents involved in educational activities.

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Teaching in a professional cooking school is a daily exploration and discovery, students are engaged in so many practical activities which are periodically shown to their parents during fairs, meetings or exibithions. Last year a huge musical about the Cafè Chantant was set up by our students and all parents were invited to see the show in the school theatre. The show was a great success and parents congratulated teachers and students for their commitment. Cooking competitions are also held by the school where students compete among
themselves to create the best dish to savour
right in front of an audience made up of parents.

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Involving parents in educational activities.

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Involving parents in educational activities.

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Collaborating with parents is the best way for us teachers to face daily challenges with students and school in general. I always try to get parents involved in the learning process of their kids, they can do so much to make every step of the way easier and fruitful. At the beginning of the school year I like to meet them to show them which are the goals set for their kids to achieve, I also invite them to come over to school to talk about their jobs especially because teaching in a professional school students can relate to such important issues seeing them in perspective when theywill be done with high school education and active in a working scenario. Some parents who work as culinary chefs in five stars restaurants have often given a vivid account of their daily efforts as top chefs preparing not just meals but real work of art. Students are always interested in such real life tales and establish themselves goals to achieve in their future life.

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Communicating with parents of different social, economic and cultural background.

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Communicating with parents of different social, economic and cultural background.

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I have often tried to communicate toparents with different socio-economic-cultural-language background and the best move has always been keeping a low profile with them using a simple language repeating several times the issues being faced. I remember talking to Arab parents of a female students with completely differents socio and cultural background, all the issues related to daily school routine were made simple to let them be a part of the new school system, this way they felt ready to cooperate with me and with the other colleagues in order to actively partecipate in their daughter learning success

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I teach in a professional school and my students often come from a disadvantaged background so it is hard to get to communicate with their parents as they are kinda absent from their kids' life. I do not have many chances to see them but when I need to talk to them I prefer making a telephone call or using the electronic register which gives the opportunity of letting parents know what's going on in the class.

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I will definitely prepare a lesson plan bearing well in mind the peculiarity of my classes at school, I will delve into daily problems with my students trying to always get their parents engagements, I will try to find with them strategies and good practices to improve students interest avoiding early school leaving or poor test performances at any time during the school year.

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This is me!

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I joined the course because I have a great interest on the topic of engaging parents in the educational process, I'd like to investigate and share with other peers new strategies to have parents collaborate with the school and us teachers, a school which take chances on parents to develop a mutual learning is a modern school where students learn fteachers as well as from parents who are professionals and experts in their own fields.

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Hello there, my name is Piero and I teach french in a secondary school in south Italy. Every day I experience the importance of dealing with students as well as with their parents. It is a great priority to have parents involved in the learning process, when we teachers face problems with the students it is important to have parents involved in the effort to overcome troubles and misunderstoods. Parents can also collaborate in the learning process actively by proposing or creating strategy to help teachers to improve their didactic approach to students. Hope to learn new strategies through the exchange of views with my peers. Any idea or suggestion is highly welcome.