4.1 Bringing learning into the families by Teacher Academy

Maria Duarte

joaoinvestiga1 — 2017-10-16 12:28:32 UTC

Portugal
I quite agree with the examples. I plan to do a gastronomy fair, where geography, hist
ory and sciences could be taught in practise by teachers, parents and students!

Argiro Spyrogianni, Greece

Argiro — 2017-10-16 13:08:11 UTC

These ideas are really interesting and seem to have a very positive impact on both parents and students. Another way to involve parents is to start engaging kids with STEM or coding activities, which usually stimulate the students' curiosity and encourage them to proceed with this kind of activities at home in which their parents can participate or be the ones to learn by their own kids!

Joana Almeida, Portugal

2017-10-16 13:10:20 UTC

I agree with the shares of Eszter and Maria, as I consider that parental involvement should be deeper than the simple verification of the tasks performed by the students by the parents. For example, at the São Martinho Fair, the activity will be carried out by parents, students and teachers, each of the members will have roles to play with the same degree of relevance.

Paulo, Portugal

2017-10-16 13:17:02 UTC

I often work with parents and students to prepare First Lego League. Especially in the scientific project task.
This activity promotes the involvement of parents in student learning

Rosy, Italy

rositone73 — 2017-10-16 13:23:13 UTC

I agree. The ideas share and the examples given are really interesting. What about a sport project involving families?
A quiz game about History or Geography involving children and their families could be something Greta

Selma Rego, Portugal

selma_rego — 2017-10-16 13:23:32 UTC

I agree with shares of Eszter and Maria. I also like to see this video about Family Literacy night. I think that another activity could be to give a study/ research topic for students develop at home with their families, and then organize a day where in a kind of conference where each family and student presents to others the results of their research.

Vasiliki Psaridou/Greece

psaridou — 2017-10-16 13:30:31 UTC

I fully agree with the ideas and examples that shared by Eszter and Maria. We, as a school, try to be near parents are much as we can. I usually do a demo to pamilies on how children can be helped at home and I ask them to follow it and tell the results and mistakes (if there are any).

Dora, Greece

ntanouth — 2017-10-16 13:38:26 UTC

The ideas given are very interesting! Simple projects carried out at home by both parents and pupils are very important. But we have to consider parents' availability!

Helena Pires, Portugal

hcpires — 2017-10-16 13:45:13 UTC

The examples given were very interesting. It is important to motivate parents to become involved in learning with their children, whether at school or at home. The teacher can promote these kinds of activities that bring parents and children together.
As an example, they can create events for parents to attend or schedule an activity in which both are involved at home.

Paola, Italy

2017-10-16 14:06:44 UTC

I teach at middle school and I think my priority is to improve students ‘ autonomy, also independence from parents.

João Eusébio

2017-10-16 14:18:09 UTC

And why not think about a joint Citizenship Education class with parents and students in the same class? Would not that be an option for reflection? What better way for parents to get to know their children in class context?
Why not?

Laura Pagnozzi;Italy

2017-10-16 14:33:27 UTC

I agree with both ideas, but as I teach in a high school, this approach with parents is often limited only to family school meetings or only where it is necessary to call the parent a weekly interview, with the participation of parents' representatives, it sometimes communicates with others.I think that parents can also take part in projects that they are doing at school, and help their children in learning

Margherita,

marghe_ian74 — 2017-10-16 14:37:57 UTC

I agree with both ideas, but in my opinion it is very difficult to involve parents in a project reading the same book. It is easier, for exemple, to interview parents at home and then to invite them at school in order to explain the results.

Edmundo, Portugal

edmundo_ramos — 2017-10-16 14:39:18 UTC

I agree with the ideas of Eszter and Maria that it is necessary to involve parents in student learning, at school and at home, but it is also our goal to work with the student's autonomy and personal development.

João, Portugal

2017-10-16 15:11:36 UTC

I agree totally. There one idea I like to disseminate: we only achieve transformation if we include everyone in the process of change.

Roberto, Italia

ginisari — 2017-10-16 15:31:07 UTC

Roberto, Italia

ginisari — 2017-10-16 15:31:09 UTC

It is important in the last achievement, that is, the child's educational growth, the close collaboration of parents. That is why we must leverage their availability. Maybe by realizing simple, achievable projects to be implemented with them.

Maria Carmela,

2017-10-16 15:32:14 UTC

It is very difficult to involve parents in a project that can always be present and we must also look at parents' availability. Therefore the suggested ideas are very interesting so simple projects made in collaboration at home with both parents and pupils are very important.

Teresa Maia, Portugal

mariateresalcobia — 2017-10-16 15:36:14 UTC

I really liked the ideas presented: to propose projects to develop by students and parents, activities of reading or games in family, to stimulate the students to share their learning with their parents.

However, I don´t agree that is not matter if the project is made by parents or the child, I think that they must work like a team, because I think the process is more important that the final product.

Laura

2017-10-16 16:04:47 UTC

The idea of the first video is very interesting. I agree and find important to provocate the motivation by the parents and involve them in a commun project

Vicky Archondi, Greece

vicky_archondi — 2017-10-16 16:39:10 UTC

I find the above ideas extremely interesting and parent -engaging. What I have already implemented in my school and it actually worked is to put some of my star students act as English tutors to their parents who wish to learn or improve their English. The results are more than encouraging! On the one hand my students' confidence is tremendously boosted due to the role they have assumed. On the other the parents become rexplore the inner drive for life-long learning whilst they feel proud of their children and their abilities

Despoina Amarantidou, Greece

damarant — 2017-10-16 17:07:26 UTC

I think that it is a three-fold procedure: Teacher-student, Student-parents, Teacher-parents. All these parameters may bring really positive and unexpected results. Involvement of parents enhances a sense of respect and acceptance.

Fernanda, Portugal

2017-10-16 17:28:42 UTC

I coudn't agree more with Eszter.

Previous researches have established a connection between students' motivation and their families' background and characteristics.

https://www.mais-psi.com/content/9-caracter%C3%ADsticas-dos-pais-de-mi%C3%BAdos-com-sucesso-escolar

Christina, Greece

crest_lou — 2017-10-16 17:36:31 UTC

I totally agree with the ideas! Everyday life is so exchaustive for families nowdays that is important to find really interesting educational ideas for both parents and students. One of them are STEM activities because they offer learning and fun simultaneously!

Angela Metallinou, Athens/Greece

gelametal — 2017-10-16 18:05:17 UTC

All ideas proposed are superb! So I come to the point, that I have to find the appropriate project to involve both parents and students... I like Gamification in the educational process... Maybe I should focus on that and make a proposal to my principal...

I have a great experiences as a parent. My daughter was learning about materials and their characteristics or something like that, they had a task to melt a chocolate. We made cookies from melted chocolate and we bought enjoyed the learning process.

2017-10-16 18:50:08 UTC

Maja Hadžić, Serbia

2017-10-16 18:51:39 UTC

Of course I agree with both of them. I'd like to see parents attending one lesson per month, be it history, foreign language or sports, with their children, like one special lesson after the regular classes. I think a literary evening with the topic of extensive reading would be nice.

Renata, Croatia

2017-10-16 19:40:55 UTC

I very much like the idea that a child and a parent at home work together and present it to the whole class.

Patrick UK

patrick_carroll — 2017-10-16 19:46:49 UTC

Many of my parents struggle with the new concepts that are being taught in maths now so I send the children home with examples that they can work through with parents. These have proved to be successful and the effort that I have put in to support parental understanding has been gratefully received.

Adrina

adryanaanton — 2017-10-16 20:00:04 UTC

I agree

Dimitra, Brussels

2017-10-16 20:01:48 UTC

I believe that, as children grow, their parents’ role in their learning changes, but one thing remains constant: parents are children’s learning models. Their attitudes about education can inspire them and show them how to take charge of their own educational journey.

Especially in the early years, parents are their children’s first educators — exploring nature, reading together, cooking together, and counting together. When a young child begins formal school, the parent’s job is to show him/her how school can extend the learning they began together at home, and how exciting and meaningful this learning can be. As preschoolers grow into school age kids, parents become their children’s learning supporters. Through guidance and reminders, parents help their kids organize their time and support their desires to learn new things in and out of school.

Patrick, UK

patrick_carroll — 2017-10-16 20:03:30 UTC

As part of my action plan I am encouraging parents to take part in family homework. We have had some back so are using these as a means of encouraging others to participate.
https://animoto.com/play/GQlgZ2fc9CSyJ5hrX8BAaw

Adriana Miranda - Oiã, Aveiro, Portugal

2017-10-16 20:56:14 UTC

I totally agree with Eszter and Maria. It’s very important to try to bring fun into the learning process in the families. They refer to activities as the “Family Literacy nights” or the project “one book, one community”, or the “maths problem”, that all activities that Maria and Eszter refer as way how students can bring learning into families, while the teacher is a facilitator of such process. This would allow to do family projects where parents get involved and understand the importance of becoming a lifelong learner. Other ways of doing this is create “family reading nights”. Parents go to and read with their children as well as speak with teachers about reading. Another way is organizing an after-school homework club, where many children are left those hours following the end of the school day, where parents with free time, or after work can go to help kids doing homework.

2017-10-16 21:03:18 UTC

Michela, Italy

2017-10-16 21:48:30 UTC

I agree with them. The family is an important role model. When adults and children do things together, children learn interaction skills and develop a positive

attitude towards others. By encouraging children to try things and experience shared joy of success they

learn to form a positive self-image.

Ispir Iuliana, Romania

ispiriuliana — 2017-10-17 05:00:19 UTC

Yes, the methods used by Eszter and Maria are good.
Usually, being younger, the children I coordinate take the initiative in the family. They go home and say: Mommy said the lady like I was planting a tree: why? and thus automatically involves them in the activity. It happens often.

Jenny (Evgenia) Karoumpali, Greece

jennykaroumpali — 2017-10-17 05:50:14 UTC

I like very much the example shared by Eszter. The parents’ encouragement at home is very helpful to the learning of their children, especially when it comes to low-educated parents. Those parents might have had negative experiences from their own schooling, and these negative experiences do not help them to encourage their own children’s learning.

The organization of a meeting with parents (guided by a psychologist / social worker), where parents should realize the worth of their children’s encouragement despite their own (possible) negative experiences of their own schooling, is a excellent idea.

Lúcia, Portugal

lucia_paulino — 2017-10-17 10:47:03 UTC

If we want to achieve positive outcomes, building a relationship with families that is seen as a partnership can be full of possibilities. It helps build trust and it enables parents to see what skills their children are developing and what we, as educators, actually do with them.

The ideas presented are really interesting. Projects such as “one book one community” or “family literacy night” are true examples of the possibility of bringing parents back to school and have them contribute to get involved in school work.

I agree with Eszter and Maria. Parents must stimulate and encourage learning, they must be an example to their children. To bring the joy of learning into families, teachers must caal parents at school, made them to partiicpate in many activities as possible. But children must "teach" parents to participate in activities with them at home, they must tell their parents "participate, join with me in this activity, talk with me and smile with me"

2017-10-17 11:23:31 UTC

Helen, Ireland

helen_p_english — 2017-10-17 14:08:06 UTC

Bringing the joy of learning back into homes is a very worthy endeavour. I fully support it. Parents and students working together on a project is very worthwhile. Students take on the role of leader and motivator towards their parents.
I will be encouraging my EAL students to prepare their presentations for International Language & Culture Day( in November) with their parents. The parents will have great riches and memories to share about their home countries and cultures and this could be harnessed and then shared with the whole school community.

Helen, Ireland

helen_p_english — 2017-10-17 14:08:06 UTC

Bringing the joy of learning back into homes is a very worthy initiative. I would like to

Matilde, Portugal

matildecasaca — 2017-10-17 15:30:32 UTC

I agree with Eszter and Maria totally. For good outcomes we have to work all together: teachers and students engage parents in school activities; parents give support to their children. I have already invited my students`parents to participate in a class where their children read and explained the message sent to them by their penfriends from Finland. It was amazing and very positive.

Stathis, Greece

slikidis — 2017-10-17 16:18:22 UTC

I agree with the ideas about the importance of bringing the joy of learning back to parents. Parents always inspire, encourage, support and guide their children. However, in my classes with children ages of 17 and 18 years old, I believe that it's a bit difficult for children to accept that role from their parents. Children feel more independent having to work alone. The only they need is parents' support to their effort.

Rute Parente, Portugal

2017-10-17 16:27:43 UTC

I agree with Eszter and Maria. There are some school contents that parents already know but are taught differently and with different strategies. Engaging parents in doing a project whose theme is known and where they can help their children is a good way of parents knowing about what their children are studying, what they learning and how they are getting into it.

Antonietta, Italy

miaaba — 2017-10-17 17:34:02 UTC

I agree with the examples shared. It would be perfect to create a team in order to share knowledge and skills mutually.

Andreas, Athens,Greece

2017-10-17 17:53:09 UTC

Nice ideas, but we also have to think about the culture of people and whether they are ready to try something new. At this point we should focus our attention on finding the right way to motivate parents to participate in such processes.

Fulvia, Italy

leardini — 2017-10-17 18:22:26 UTC

I agree with Ester and Maria. I teach in a high school and it is not easy to envolve parents in school activities but I think that it would be a nice situation to make students promoting to their parents cultural activities that they had realized at school

Giorgia, Romania

giorgiagroza — 2017-10-17 18:34:40 UTC

In my oppinion, the Reading night organized at school is a briliant ideas. I think about organizing an activity together with parents and students about protecting the environment.

Céu, Portugal

2017-10-17 18:42:42 UTC

I agree with the ideas and the examples shared. I think teachers are important to bring the joy of learning into families. We can promote end-of-year competitions on vocabulary, verbal conjugation or knowledge involving the parents and the students in preparation for the competition. 
Pairs of parents and students would compete with other pairs. It could be interesting and fun.

Alina, Romania

saftaalina — 2017-10-17 19:29:42 UTC

It is great to inolve parent in students work.It is a step for good communication.

Christos, GREECE

christos_chachoudis — 2017-10-17 19:30:38 UTC

I strongly agree with the ideas at the examples shared. It is crucial for us teachers to manage bring the joy of learning into families, to promote the engagement of learning into families. We also can organize actions to present the goods of family learning and introduce it to our students' parents.

Suela,Albania

suelabraushi — 2017-10-17 19:43:26 UTC

It is crucial for us teachers to manage bring the joy of learning into families, to promote the engagement of learning into families.
I teach in a high school and it is not easy to envolve parents in school activities but I think that it would be a nice situation to make students promoting to their parents cultural activities that they had realized at school

Vanesa

2017-10-18 05:01:37 UTC

Involving parents is a great idea. It is a difficult task but well worthed.

Natasa, Serbia

2017-10-18 10:12:57 UTC

The idea is very interesting, it's worth a try. I think that individually parents can also work with children at home with their children to work on projects, explore different sources, help with the selection of photos, making posters or presentations. It's important that we give them support.

Paula Portugal

paulacarvalhosilva — 2017-10-18 17:08:30 UTC

The shared experiences seem to me very dignified and capable of involving and facilitating the learning both of the students and of their parents. They may require additional time for the planning and implementation of the various activities. Besides all that has been said, I add that the sharing of the children in the work places of the parents can contribute to the learning of the school, the motivation of new learning by doing and allow the relationship between parents and children.

Rosa Medeiros

rosa_medeiros1 — 2017-10-18 18:43:23 UTC

Completely agree. We should not communicate to parents only when there are problems with the child, or to ask for support in working from home. You have to create positive moments. One of the activities might be to invite them to talk about their profession, to have a meal with the students, to participate in the preparation of a school party, or a study visit ...
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Laura

2017-10-18 18:47:13 UTC

as my other Italian colleagues, I watched the video with a shade of envy: in our system things like the event showed in the third video are very difficult to organize unless your school is in a deeply disadvantaged area. our parents are practically impossible to be involved, beside they are from a different country and culture. during the years I noticed that italian parents are less interested in their children school life than the foreigner do. that's because for who is coming from abroad the school still represent a way of integration and rescue from a well worst social position... I don't know how we could get back to Montessori's students educating their families bringing back home what they have learnt at school...

Maria Susana, Lisbon, Portugal

maria_susana_fernandes — 2017-10-18 19:29:57 UTC

The idea of a literacy night is quite interesting though difficult to promote. In the USA parent associations have a great weight in school management while in Portugal everything is centered on the Ministery of Education thus simple things like opening the school after hours may not be possible at all.
Promoting reading activities that envolve simultanously kids and parents seems a good path. This is why I'll try to implement my lesson plan that is about bringing parents to the language classroom to share a story they enjoyed when they were young (telling or reading from a book) .

Maria Stafilakou

stafilakou67 — 2017-10-18 20:12:39 UTC

I find the suggestions in the videos interesting and challenging but unfortunately these things can not happen in my school easily.A literacy night for example can not take place since most of the parents would not show up. More over in the video the parents seem to be familiar with such events while ours aren't.The suggestions ,once more ,are great but I strongly believe we need to have examples of real tasks to see how we can motivate parents and what kind of tasks fulfil our purposes.

Inês, Portugal

2017-10-18 20:57:28 UTC

Workshops parents-children together is a good way to put both learning together

Sofia Rosado Dias, Portugal

sofia_rosado_dias — 2017-10-18 22:07:30 UTC

When I was learning to be a teacher, there was a truthful conclusion that was shared when we address school learnings: we have to be the biggest enthusiasts of the learning process! If we fade our motivation to motivate, parents won't trust the power of learning; students will lack the joy to learn.
All examples are valid activities which make us powerful because we can give our students the power of knowledge. Of course things won't be easy at first, but we all like to be challenged. Let's challenge our schools!

Vilija, Lithuania

2017-10-19 05:49:12 UTC

As a teacher I can bring the joy of learning into families by organizing different projects where parents and students can discuss, collaborate and communicate.

Betty-Greece

bettyaggeletaki — 2017-10-19 12:21:35 UTC

to involve in a project parents and children together i think it could be so useful and interesting also i would say to open the project to a group of children and group of families.

Lígia, Portugal

ligiasantos_pt — 2017-10-19 12:40:19 UTC

I agree with the ideas shared in the videos. In fact, as I work with older students, I think it is really important to work motivation for learning, motivation to become a lifelong learner. How can we be motivated to something? Probably by getting pleasure of what we’re doing… so let’s promote activities and projects that involve parents and students in discovering and experience that “joy of learning”.

Maria Fernanda, Portugal

2017-10-19 12:41:52 UTC

I agree with Eszter and Maria and with you all. Unquestionably parents´ involvement of in school and in their children learning process brings benefits for both parts. Therefore parents may use school resources for their own advantage. So, parents can develop or upgrade skills, whether academic or personal.

In my school we've been implementing several and various activities, aiming, not only the increase of the family involvement in school life but also as a way to improve themselves as parents and as individuals. I leave you here some examples of those activities:

- Training / awareness sessions about educational and children upbringing issues.

. Theatre experience ( performance)

- Musical band membership

- Collaborative action on the cultural events organization

- Environmental education

laura brazzabeni

laura_brazzabeni1 — 2017-10-19 17:10:12 UTC

very important is to bring the joy of Learning and to motivate either students or parents engaging them in activities.

Ida, Italy

2017-10-19 18:13:43 UTC

Make students and parents partecipate in a shared activity is a very good idea to engage parents in students learning

Maria Cala, Italy

ilacrisere — 2017-10-19 19:05:48 UTC

Designing an activity and engaging parents and students to participate is a good thing to make them share their children's learning.

Maria, Portugal

2017-10-19 21:05:55 UTC

I agree with Ester and Maria. Projects seem to be the best way to make students teach at home. To leave open endings permits the family to be creative, allows parents to share their experiences and search for new knowledge.

Jurate, Lithuania

jurateorloviene — 2017-10-19 22:18:45 UTC

I agree with the idea of using the project of as way to involve parents. However I think that it is easier to involve the parents of younger students than parents of e.g. school leavers. We had some good practices of projects together with parents. One of the most successful was theater lessons and stage plays project.

José António Carvalho, Guarda, Portugal

joseantoniocarvalho — 2017-10-20 09:46:36 UTC

I agree with the ideas shared in the Ester and Maria videos. Teaching that takes shape in the daily lives of students and families can help families realize the importance of what students learn. It also seems to me an interesting idea that the projects of the students require the participation of the parents. Finally, for parents who are distant from their children's education, teachers must demonstrate in their contact a more affable, facilitating and educationally oriented side of children. Parents should realize the importance of teachers' work. We all hear and admire those who care about us.

Adriana T

adritoderic — 2017-10-20 11:59:57 UTC

Totally agree.

Helena, Portugal

helenagpaixao — 2017-10-20 13:24:17 UTC

The ideas and examples shared are very interesting. It´s difficult to bring parents at school because they have busy schedules but why not use digital tools to collaborate, social media to be in contact. Maybe some projects with the participation of parents like making videos about emmergency procedure (CPR). My students enjoy those projects and they were proud of them and their parents.

Silvia Patrizia RUGGERI, Italy

silviap_ruggeri — 2017-10-20 13:49:34 UTC

Yes, I agree the ideas and examples shared by Eszter and Maria. Communication is important and it can't be impulsive, but teacher has to be reflective everytime.

Elona,Albania

elonagremi — 2017-10-20 14:44:59 UTC

It is a great idea to use projects as a way to involve parents.Even though it isn't really easy in my school to apply it , think it's a really good idea so I totally agree

Projects can be a usefull tool to introduce oarents in school life, but they often can be selecentered and not focused on daily school life.

2017-10-20 16:09:05 UTC

Daniele - Italy

danvir — 2017-10-20 16:25:05 UTC

Do you agree with the ideas and examples shared by Eszter and Maria? What other strategies, actions, can we take as teachers to bring the joy of learning into families? How can we as teachers facilitate family and student learning by helping our students “teach” at home? Share your thoughts and ideas in the Padlet below.
The ideas below are interesting. Involving parents in a such way it is not easy, but projects could help. The example of the literacy night is really nice. Other projects could involve parents for crowdfunding or collecting funds for school. This could make parents feel important for their children and for the school: funds can be used to buy new didactic material to allow pupils to have better lessons.

Patrizia, Italy

2017-10-20 17:27:39 UTC

I think it is a good idea to involve parents in their children's learning. I teach at kindergarten and an activity we do with parents is to invite them at school twice a month to choose a book from the school library and read it at home with their child. Parents like it a lot and participate with great enthusiasm.

Cecilia Italy

2017-10-20 18:30:47 UTC

I agree with Maria Tobin - students should encourage parents to use online services provided by the school.
The 'One Book One community' program is original for primary school. I think it's difficult to make the same program in high schools.

Chiara Sabatini - Italy

chisab72 — 2017-10-20 19:44:28 UTC

Last year I involved a class in an etwinning project called "Let's play EU 60" on European Union. I asked the students to show their parents the twinspace of the project and show them what we were doing. A lot of parents thanked me telling me that their relationship with their children improve thanks to the project because they had time to spend together having a look at the activities online. They also told me they learnt how to use some of the apps and tools I explained their children and they also learnt some more things on the EU thanks to the games their children created at school.

Pietro- Italy

idiotshater — 2017-10-20 20:42:18 UTC

The idea of getting parents involved through school projects is great, a learning which streches out to reach parents is a longlife learning, students challenges at school should be always supporter by parents with an active role which means a full immersion in their children educational tasks.

Elsa, Portugal

2017-10-20 21:29:29 UTC

I personally had the idea that family learning was limited to parental help in schoolwork. But after these videos, I changed that concept. I think these ideas are fantastic!

Vlad Alexandra-Anamaria, Romania

vladalexandraanamaria — 2017-10-21 06:18:12 UTC

I totally agree with Eszter and Maria and I truly believe that the vision that parents have over education is reflected in their children learning development. I work with small kids in kindergarten and usually the projects that I develop includes the support and the real practice at home with their parents. When developing e-Twinning projects like Plant a tree for Peace, Family Tree, Christmas cards exchange, kids had my help and their parents help. They came to kindergarten and presented the result of their work as a team, or they came at class and we all worked together kids-parents-teacher. It is a great opportunity to make parents fall in love with education and embrace the process of the evolution of their child.

Adérito, Portugal

2017-10-21 16:36:39 UTC

I agree, but sociocultural level inequality generates a very large difference in family contexts. The school has to take this into account in whatever action it develops. I think the future will be the online platforms where parents can participate without time or movement restrictions.

Anisa, Albania

2017-10-21 17:57:26 UTC

Hi all,
It will be a unique way to bring learning into the families even though in my country it not that easy. Although collaboration is always present in our classroom.

Orlando Serrano, Portugal

orlandoserranoue — 2017-10-21 23:51:16 UTC

When the families and the staff

They work together effectively,

They form a powerful team

(Mérida Serrano, Ramírez García,

Corpas Reina, & González Alfaya, 2012, p. 122)

Iuliana L, Romania

iuliana_linea — 2017-10-22 05:58:23 UTC

I think children's motivation is the key to success! Without their motivation we could do nothing in school. From my experience I noticed that parents are very interested in doing projects at school with thei children. But the time is limited and, ufortunatelly, those activities are often very rare.

Iulia, Romania

2017-10-22 06:18:25 UTC

Projectbased learning

Jagoda Gauta, Croatia

2017-10-22 14:27:28 UTC

The idea is quite understadable but it depends very much about parents we are talking about. There is a lot of younger and well educated parents which allready have strong demands for life long learning on their jobs and they hardly can find time to learn with the kids. So, it's possible but not always applicable.

Paola, Italy

paola_tona — 2017-10-22 15:03:52 UTC

I believe that bringing kids to home is a very difficult thing. The only thing that comes to my mind, in the field of my subject, that is, the sciences is to try to explain to the boys the healthy eating and the practice of motor activity in everyday life and to try to bring these healthy habits at home

Patrizia Giorgi, Italy

2017-10-22 15:58:07 UTC

I agree with both ideas. I find exiting to propose parents long life learning. I think my subject matter, music, is for this purpose, especially in Italy where many adults have had bad school experiences. I would like to try to involve them together with their children

Antonella Italy Working together is the key, we know that. So both ideas are ok for me , I think I'm changing my approach in the way to think

grigiante — 2017-10-22 16:54:08 UTC

Athina, Greece

aginoudi — 2017-10-22 18:26:07 UTC

I liked very much the ideas that Eszter and Maria presented. I am thinking for ideas in order to engage families in learning activities in science.

Margherita

2017-10-23 10:50:39 UTC

I agree with these idea, bu t in Italy they are difficult to really use.

Reneta Raicheva, Bulgaria

renyraicheva — 2017-10-23 11:53:27 UTC

Thank you very much for the amazing ideas! It will be nice to invite parents at school for 'Family Literacy Night'. I'd like to suggest another great activity...to invite parents at school about digital lessons...let's code & program with us! Thxxxx! :)

Luisa Italy

2017-10-23 13:28:08 UTC

Great ideas! Difficut, but not impossible to put them into practice! It almost depends on the cultural background of the families and their availability to collaborate

Silvia. Italy

silvietta_68 — 2017-10-23 14:53:30 UTC

I liked very much the video examples.
Although I think it is not always feasible to teach parents home.

Maria Antonietta Italy

mariaantonietta_caravelli — 2017-10-23 15:47:48 UTC

It is not easy to involve parents, I have committed myself to involving them in communicating the projects of "teacher-gatewey-Etwinning-EMMA-SOFIA", I have communicated and involved parents in school and city projects. These are difficult times to overcome and there are beautiful times of wonderful collaboration. At school, in the last few days, I am proposing activities on "Wordle-cloud" and on the "Storybird" portal. In the latter we have created a virtual class, children are invited to create stories, when and where they want, then stories are read in class by the "author". Children and parents love these activities. In their homes, many children along with their parents are "experimenting" with these activities.

João Adelino Santos

joao_santos2 — 2017-10-23 16:39:01 UTC

I agree with the proposed activities. However, I recognize that they are difficult to implement in our country because of the sociocultural situation of families. I think they will be more receptive to basic education levels.

Marco, Italy.

2017-10-23 19:29:14 UTC

I agree with Eszter. I think that is important the relationship betwine parents and son on homework.

Cristina, Italy

cristina_floriddia — 2017-10-23 19:29:19 UTC

I agree with the proposed, but they are not always possible

Maria Carmela, Italy

2017-10-23 19:37:36 UTC

I live in a country where teachers are not home visits, there is no law that expects them. Therefore, I consider it important to have a relationship between teachers and parents through constant communication.

Roberto, Italy

ginisari — 2017-10-23 19:45:06 UTC

Laskarina, Greece

laspolemi — 2017-10-23 20:14:57 UTC

I would love to see students educating their parents. Confidence will be restored both in school and in each other within the family.Quality bonding time will thus be a target met. I loved all the family members reading the same book idea

Vesna, Serbia

2017-10-23 21:35:21 UTC

I really think these ideas from the video are wonderful. Students educating their parents is the best. As teachers we can give them insight into motivation and help them create it at home. Work out the best strategies together. Children know their parents and they know how to get their parents attention.

Isabel Quirino, Portugal

isabelquirino — 2017-10-24 08:25:48 UTC

I work in a secondary school; sometimes, when we call parents to talk about career development and the need to make career choices, some parents ask help to themselfs - and that is very interesting, because some parents (usualy those with not so good experiences in school) can learn with theirs sons and daughteurs about career opportunities and career processes.

Ana Linhares, Portugal

2017-10-24 17:19:44 UTC

I liked very much the video examples, but, in my country do not exist home visits.
I bilieve it´s very important engage parents in projects. The constant communication between teachers and parents it´s an important resource for success.

Konstantina, Greece

2017-10-24 20:14:19 UTC

The development of literacy in family is very important! Children should make quizzes for parents when they come back home from school about topics covered at school courses. It would be nice teachers assign family projects at home about issues from the every day life.

Rasma, Lithuania

rasmastuokiene — 2017-10-25 11:02:07 UTC

Thank you for great ideas. I have always been learning together with my students and often from them, in particular things with technologies, but have never considered involving parents. Our teachers have experience including them into international projects. What is more, we organise a trivia contest and sports day for mixed student-parent-teacher teams. However, parents participation is very low. Now I understand that it is crucial to help parents enjoy lifelong learning by providing opportunities to learn from their own children.

Fernanda Cunha, Portugal

fernanda_mcunha58 — 2017-10-25 15:43:55 UTC

I agree wholeheartedly with the ideas presented in any of the videos!

Our school library usually organize an evening of activities, so that parents can come to school and contact with literature, poetry, representation, ... know and contact with Portuguese authors.

Sanja, BiH

sanjasober — 2017-10-25 15:49:39 UTC

The idea is good, but difficult to do with children ages 18-19.

Cinzia, Italy

attasonitabas — 2017-10-25 17:41:22 UTC

I agree with Sanja, I enjoy the idea but it is difficult with older students.

Azize Ozcan,Turkey

shiningforthelife — 2017-10-28 08:53:21 UTC

I really liked the ideas.But it is hard to implement them in teenage students.For the teenage students and their parents, some contests or quiz shows can be held at school or a literature day which involves parents can be organized.

Vanessa Algarvio, Portugal

vanessalgarvio — 2017-10-29 17:09:20 UTC

I really like these ideas. In my case I think that the fastest and most effective way to reach students and also to parents is through tacnologies.

Because my students are adolescents it is more difficult to put some of the examples into practice, but it is not impossible, we just have to go around the subject and work from the interests of the students. I completely agree with the fact that students can and do have the power to bring parents to school.I love the idea of literature night.

I do not remember having had bad experiences with parents, although they often do not like to take on children when they screw up.

2017-10-30 15:51:28 UTC

Paola, Italy

paola_oggi — 2017-10-30 17:12:23 UTC

It is a great idea, but to accomplish it, time and space are needed.

Isaura Ventura, Portugal

2017-10-30 17:37:02 UTC

I think these activities are easier with younger children. With teenagers as subjects become more demanding, most times parents find it difficult to keep up with the demanding level of difficulty. The ones who can afford it pay for private lessons, or some after-school supporting service. However, aiming other goals, namely bringing parents into the school to keep them closer, I think Azize Ozcan's idea of contests, quizz shows and even literature day may be quite effective. At least I am willing to try them.

Teuta DImo

teutadimo — 2017-10-30 21:16:50 UTC

Yes, I agree with the ideas and examples shared by Eszter and Maria. Tecnology is the best and fast way to "teach" at home

Pietro-Italy

idiotshater — 2017-10-31 19:20:14 UTC

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.

Nicoleta, Romania

mercur_mercur — 2017-11-01 12:11:41 UTC

I agree that we have to form a school-family community. I prefer to ask/raise questions on different subjects, and children use them, even improve them, to find ways of thinking, different perspectives from family, to observe roles and relations, events and traditions, to come back with ideeas of collaborating in familly.That is not always the case, but we do it.

Teuta, Albania

2017-11-22 18:44:43 UTC

In my place where I work , parents play a bad role in society and in their children. They don't educate their children at home, they often say: We bring our children to school in order to be taught and educated.

2018-05-10 06:49:35 UTC

and space are needed.

Roberto Carluccio

2018-05-10 06:52:21 UTC

Tecnology is the best and fast way to "teach" at home

Hümeyra,TURKEY

hs_yener — 2018-07-31 15:55:12 UTC

I like the idea of family literacy night. I think values education with the help of parents can be a good idea. Students can make a short film about values education with their families and organize movie nights.

Ipermahia Christodoulou, Greece

2018-08-28 00:45:54 UTC

Whenever parents come to School Events which help them to understand the problems their children may have, the results are excellent and their children are proud

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nehas5_win — 2020-05-31 18:48:35 UTC

Tecnology is the best and fast way to "teach" at home