BPS Family Guides to Learning - Tips for Schools & Teachers

Family engagement that is linked to learning is the kind of engagement that has the greatest BPS_K2_FINAL
impact on student outcomes.  The BPS Family Guides to Learning provide parents with the tools to support learning at home and build partnerships with teachers.  It is also a valuable tool for teachers.  It opens the discussion about student learning in a way that builds a relationship between parent and teacher.  How schools introduce and use the guide throughout the school year is critically important to the desired outcome – family engagement linked to learning.

 
Tips for Teachers


1. Emphasize with parents that the home activities were carefully selected or created to
expand on things that many families already do in their daily lives.  When you introduce a home activity to parents, start with one that will be easy for them to implement.

 
Family Guides to Learning in Portuguese

BPS Family Learning Guides for High School (9th to 12th grades - soon)

Tips for Families

Tips for Teachers

 
Family Guides to Learning in Somali

BPS Family Learning Guides for High School (9th to 12th grades - soon)

Tips for Families

Tips for Teachers

 
The Family Learning Guides have arrived!

 

BOSTON, MA (09/16/10) -- The Family Learning Guides are an exciting new tool for both families and teachers! The guides provide a universal message about the importance of family engagement and home-school partnerships; it provides parents and caregivers with tips on how to talk about student learning with both their child and the teacher; it provides information about what students in each grade should know and be able to do along with tips for Learning at Home; and it provides information about the socio-emotional development of children at each level and learning goals for health and fitness and the arts.  They also help teachers to engage families in a conversation about student learning. 
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