Course Objectives

• Explain the importance and assess the challenges of maintaining open lines of communication with parents.
• Establish methods and strategies to keep lines of communication open with parents of diverse backgrounds.
• Identify ways to share the same values of caring for students with parents.
• Design procedures for supporting and encouraging parents throughout the year.
• Identify ways a school can support parents in reinforcing and extending learning at home.
• Create lesson materials that allow parents to reinforce or extend learning at home.
• Assess the benefits to the teacher, the parent, and the student of recruiting parents as school volunteers.
• Create methods for involving parents in the school as volunteers.
• Assess the benefits to the school and the community of making all community members into school stakeholders.
• Create opportunities for community support of and participation in school events.
• Analyze the benefits and challenges of involving the larger community in school-level decision making.
• Create mechanisms for including all stakeholders in school-level decision making.

Syllabus

(ASCD PD Online course, 2011) Reimagined self-paced asynchronous online course. Upon completion, learners will be awarded an ASCD Certificate worth up to 20 Clock Hours.