I always send a list of the reading materials we’ll be using for the year. This allows parents to read the books before the students do so that they are able to help the students with questions and discussion. This also has the duel effect of alleviating most of your censorship issues, or at least bringing them to your attention early instead of half-way through a book.

I also have one major assignment due each nine weeks…so I put that in my letter as well. I tell the parents when the assignments are handed out and when they are due. This way part of the responsibility is placed on the parents to remind the students that they have something they need to spend a few minutes on each night.

The most important thing a parent can do to help a high school student is to simply be around. All too often students have questions they need help with or just to bounce ideas around and there are no adults present. Setting aside time for their kids to discuss whatever they need to discuss helps more than any other action a parent can take.

It is true that not nearly enough parents are involved and that the participation goes down as the child gets older.

One way to get parents more involved is to answer the question, “What did you learn today? with something other than nothing.It never ceased to amaze me how a child who kept on saying nothing wound up learning so much in a year

Another way to involve parents is to make them feel that they have a meaningful part in the operation of a school and that their suggestions have weight. NYC has a consultative council to the Principal where pants are represented as well as students and teachers.

A third way is to keep parents informed. A newsletter is good for that. How about newsletters also that are written to parents by parents?

Parents are very good as convincing other parents to become active participants.

Parents meeting should be held at times and days when most parents are available.

Good luck in your teaching career.

This is the big question because parents often don’t spend a lot of time, either by time constraints, fear of not being educated enough, or by choice (eg– laziness).

Parents like me spend time every day with my son when he has homework. I make sure to set aside a place and time that are quiet and not full of distractions, and I ask him what work he has to do and whe he has learned that day to help him do his homework. Then, if he’s having trouble with it, we do it together. Otherwise, he will do it and then I will check it.

Do I always know the right answer? Um… no. But then we look it up, as ask questions together, and I will actually write notes to the teacher to keep a dialogue going with her about his progress– “Jonny had trouble with X section in particular. What can I do to help make it easier or reinforce it with him?” or “Will this be covered again, as he was finding it hard?”

If he takes a particular interest in something he is learning, I will go out of my way to extend his involvement– he was recently doing work on the Antarctic, and we made a special trip to the library to do more research, we looked them up together on the net, we talked about what he was learning.

And most of all, if you’re talking English: read read read. Not just the junk, either. By the time they’re in high school– the classics. And talk about them, and then, heck, get the movie versions if you want to.

Be there, and be open to their interests. It’s one of the most important gifts you can give them.

Cheers 🙂

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Offer the parents money to come up to the school.

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