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Parental engagement: Helping out at home

Parental engagement
As teachers, we all want our students’ parents to be supportive and to help with their children’s education at home – but how can we best advise them so they can do this effectively? Adam Riches and Roy Watson-Davis offer some pointers

One of the most common requests from parents/carers to you as a teacher will inevitably be: “How can I help my child at home.”
This question has a habit of popping up at parents’ evenings, open events and (shockingly) directly after presentations about “helping your children at home”. Don’t let it catch you off guard.

Regardless of the context, your response needs to be considered, calculated if you will. It is simple really, (most) parents want their children to succeed in education – this isn’t the issue. The issue in reality is the lack of parental understanding regarding the ins and outs of what their little cherubs are required to do and more often how to get them to do it.

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