With all the pressure that comes with being a first - year teacher,
reaching out to parents early in the year can feel like your lowest priority.
Not exact matches
Rowe and Zuckerman (who launched
Reach Out and Read, the
early childhood literacy program that provides books
to children at pediatric visits) are collaborating across disciplines
to reach an often - elusive audience:
parents of infants and toddlers under the age of three or so, who haven't yet started preschool.
Some school leaders reward their teachers who make an extra effort
to reach out to single
parents by coming in
early, staying late, or coming in on a Saturday.
In addition, some schools and communities do not fully understand the problems
parents and families encounter and the importance of
reaching out to them in order
to build the kind of relationships that engage
parents as true, active partners
early in their children's education.
Our speakers will tell how they are using data,
reaching out to families
to offer support in overcoming common health challenges and developmental delays, and educating
parents about the benefits of engaging programs and instruction in the
early grades.
Chronic
early absence decreases when educational institutions and communities actively communicate the importance of going
to school regularly
to all students and their
parents, and
reach out to families when their children begin
to show patterns of excessive absence.
The transition from home or an
early care setting
to kindergarten is an opportunity
to create continuity in a child's educational environment while
reaching out to involve
parents.
As part of their training, they should develop the capacity
to contribute
to children's cognitive and social development and
to reach out to parents to make them full partners of children's
early education.