Home Sweet Home staff want to thank families for honoring our staff development day on April 21st. Amazing conversations took place around the possibilities for collaboration between parents and teachers. By analyzing the success of the year, teachers identified that there is strong inclination by parents to support program with their talent and presence, but an opportunity to more strongly communicate the details of program needs to make this support practical. Teachers are identifying ways to invite these collaborations to create a more seamless program, with richer process reflecting parents-teachers-youth and children. Please stay-tuned!
The Parent Teacher Conferences are scheduled for Friday, May 6th. Teachers would like to meet in teams with parents to support a greater capacity for sharing. Logistically, this is difficult, but staff worked on the following schedule and hope that parents can hold tightly to it. Please email Kathleen if you CANNOT make your spot and keep to the allotted 30 minutes time.
BUTTERFLIES
8:00 - Ava; 8:35 - Jackson; 9:10 - Elisa; 9:45 - Marcus; 10:20 - Lexi; 10:55 - Jack; 11:30 - Michael; 1:35 - Dylan; 2:10 - Katy; 2:40 - Lake; 3:15 - Mylie; 3:50 - Brody; 4:25 - Vinnie; 5:00- Elizabeth
BROWN BEARS
8:00 - Cash; 8:30 - Charlotte; 9:00 - Leah; 9:30 - Dylan; 10:00 - Margaret; 10:30 - Emmett; 11:00 - Sophia; 1:00 - Gabriel; 1:30 - Billie; 2:00 - Violet; 2:30 - Cosmo; 3:00 - Shani; 3:30 - Pierce; 4:00 - Lucy; 4:30 - Adrian; 5:00 - Giuliana; 5:30 - Kira
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Thursday, April 21, 2011
Tuesday, October 5, 2010
Parent-Teacher Conferences
On Friday, October 29th Home Sweet Home will facilitate Parent-Teacher Conferences.
In preparation for this opportunity, the following summary of reasons favoring parent participation is reproduced from a translated conversation between Sergio Spaggiari (Director of Education, Reggio Schools) and Lella Gandini (Pedagogista, Reggio Schools)from "The Hundred Languages of Children" (second edition):
*The education of young children is of major importance and is of concern to all. It can be limited neither just to the home nor just to the school. It occurs in many places and no one place can claim to be all encompassing or exclusive. Each environment must be aware of the partial and incomplete role it plays and must therefore seek to collaborate and be integrated with others.
* A child is biologically predisposed to relating to others and of being the major actor in the playing out of his or her own life. For this reason early learning centers are educational communities, places not so much where one educates, but where one is educated, a place where interested parties (children, teachers and parents) are at the same time both teachers and learners.
* The participation and active involvement of the parent in the school is perceived and appreciated by the child who can derive from it a sense of security besides seeing it as a model and incentive for his or her own personal growth.
To best facilitate conferences and honor time for parents and teachers to exchange information, Home Sweet Home has calendared one day in October and one day in May one year in advance. The goal is very much to promote 100% parent involvement for this essential communication. Please be reminded that Home Sweet Home is closed for children's direct-program on Conference Days. Teachers respectfully ask parents to attend conferences without their child/ren present. An exception will be made for nursing babes in arms.
In preparation for this opportunity, the following summary of reasons favoring parent participation is reproduced from a translated conversation between Sergio Spaggiari (Director of Education, Reggio Schools) and Lella Gandini (Pedagogista, Reggio Schools)from "The Hundred Languages of Children" (second edition):
*The education of young children is of major importance and is of concern to all. It can be limited neither just to the home nor just to the school. It occurs in many places and no one place can claim to be all encompassing or exclusive. Each environment must be aware of the partial and incomplete role it plays and must therefore seek to collaborate and be integrated with others.
* A child is biologically predisposed to relating to others and of being the major actor in the playing out of his or her own life. For this reason early learning centers are educational communities, places not so much where one educates, but where one is educated, a place where interested parties (children, teachers and parents) are at the same time both teachers and learners.
* The participation and active involvement of the parent in the school is perceived and appreciated by the child who can derive from it a sense of security besides seeing it as a model and incentive for his or her own personal growth.
To best facilitate conferences and honor time for parents and teachers to exchange information, Home Sweet Home has calendared one day in October and one day in May one year in advance. The goal is very much to promote 100% parent involvement for this essential communication. Please be reminded that Home Sweet Home is closed for children's direct-program on Conference Days. Teachers respectfully ask parents to attend conferences without their child/ren present. An exception will be made for nursing babes in arms.
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