Parental engagement in education

 Parents can be bombarded with information about how to support their children in school, and in the home environment. This includes areas such as how to set up a home study space to techniques for reading, to helping their child with assignments.

As students prepare to return to school in the next week, Graham Jaeshke, the Opinion Writer in The Advertiser, South Australia, reminds us all about the school/home partnership and the value of engagement by parents in their child's education.

However, for some parents this is extremely difficult.

When 44% of the Australian adult population has non functional literacy (ABS #4228, 2013) there will be many parents in the school environment who would have difficulty being engaged with their child's education, no matter how much they want to.  Start to make a list of all the documents and information parents need to read and understand to be able to participate.

Here is the start of your list

Enrolment form

Open Day - meetings, school, visits

Uniform policy and uniform rules

Photo permission forms

ICT Policy and permission

Excursion notices

Parent teacher information letters and appointments

Acceptable behaviour policy - students and parents

Newsletter

Illness Rules

Management of Lice

Mobile phone school policy and rules

Asthma and Epipen regulations and rules

Volunteer requests

Reading at Home expectations

What else do you expect parents to be able to read, understand and use functionally?

This is the beginning of your journey with Easy English.

Contact me for further details or to request a quote to begin your own journey introducing Easy English to your school or organisation.

Cathy

Cathy Basterfield

Access Easy English

Consultant – Speech Pathologist
Telephone: 0466 579 855
Email: cathy@accesseasyenglish.com.au

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