Home School Connection

Mentor Training

You may choose to go through these modules in any order. It is estimated it will take 30-45 minutes to complete each module. Upon completion of your three modules each semester, please complete the evaluation and submit a form to earn your certificate of completion. These are found on the Conclusion page

Module Introduction

As educators you already know how important the home school connection is. You already have systems in place for your classroom and probably at the school level.

The resources below will really just be a refresher for you and things you can share with your new teacher colleague, but hopefully you will pick up something new that you might want to try.

Spend about 30 minutes looking at any or all of the resources, then complete this Form with a tip for a new teacher to promote and support home school connections. I'll share these with the new teachers next semester.

Research on Home School Connection

This article does a good job of summarizing some of the research on home school connections. It does share that much of the research is about parent involvement more so than home school partnerships.

This YouTube video presents an interesting discussion of a study conducted by Duke Univ researchers. They actually found that at times parent involvement has a negative impact! They do however, look into types of involvement that can influence impact.

Strategies for Home School Partnerships and Connections

This is an interesting article with great ideas for supporting home school partnerships with families whose first language is not English.

This article in Ed Tech Magazine discusses some ways to use tech, including AI to communicate with parents.

This is a good refresher for new teachers to write introduction to parent letters.

Short YouTube video that presents a parent and a teacher perspective of parent/teacher partnerships. Some good reminders for new and experienced educators.

Parent Teacher Conferences

This is a great video of a parent teacher conference. You will notice that the strategies are 'highlighted'. You could also use this as an example if you watch it together with your new teacher.

This Edutopia video about student led conferences offers an insight into the conference and the perspectives of them.

This website includes a whole range of links and resources for student led conferences. You will see links to handouts/templates, videos,.. Towards the bottom is a very comprehensive resource from WHEELS.

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